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Synthesis with a template: Carbon-free fullerene analogue

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Manfred Scheer at the University of Regensburg has now synthesized the first example of an inorganic, carbon-free C80 analogue.





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A convincing calculation: ten soccer players ensure excitement

Physics /

created Mar 13, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

One ball, two goals and 22 soccer players – and the game can begin. But why are there ten players of one team on the field and no more or less? This is what Metin Tolan, professor for experimental physics at ...


Physics in the Game: When a Goal is Scored as if by Magic

Physics /

created Feb 08, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Miracles happen over and over again. Even in the sport which the Germans love the most – soccer. But when the ball flies in a curve and hits the goal it has nothing to do with magic powers. Here it is rather a question of ...


Experience soccer games through your cell phone vibration

Experience soccer games through your cell phone vibration

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (20) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Buzz buzz...it’s a goal for the home team! By synchronizing a cell phone’s vibrations with the ball in the field, researchers have designed a method that allows cell phone users to experi ...


Prevent Injuries by Preparing Kids to Get Back in the Game

Prevent Injuries by Preparing Kids to Get Back in the Game

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the beginning of school comes the beginning of school sports seasons. This fall, make sure children and teenagers are prepared to get back in the game with an awareness of the risks and ...


RoboCup

Soccer robots compete for the title

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 01, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Robot soccer is an ambitious high-tech competition for universities, research institutes and industry. Several major tournaments are planned for 2008, the biggest of which is the 'RoboCup German Open.' From ...


Hertfordshire team wins Humanoid Simulation League in Robot Football Cup

Technology / Engineering

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Bold Hearts, a student team from the University of Hertfordshire, has just won the Humanoid Simulation League in the Robocup German Open 2009.  The team is now preparing for the Robocup World Championships in Austria, ...


Women's soccer -- get fit while having fun

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New Danish research shows that women benefit more from playing recreational soccer than from running when it comes to overall fitness. And that's not all -- women playing soccer experience a higher degree of motivation when ...


Microchip with Nanosoccer Fields of Play

Nanosoccer debuts at RoboCup 2007

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 29, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (40) | comments 0

Imagine a mechanical Pelé or David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a “soccer ball” no wider than a human hair on a field that can fit on a grain of rice. Purely science fiction? Not anymore.


'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis

'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember Buckminster Fuller's distinctive "geodesic domes" - soccer-ball-shaped structures that the late futurist envisioned as ideal human domiciles. Tel Aviv University ...


Public Invited to See Nanosoccer Robots in Action in Pittsburgh

Public Invited to See Nanosoccer Robots in Action in Pittsburgh

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Nanosoccer returns to the field later this month, when the National Institute of Standards and Technology hosts for the second time the world’s most Lilliputian sport. Three student teams will participate ...



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