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Solar Shield Experiment Aims to Keep the Power On

Solar Shield Experiment Aims to Keep the Power On

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 1

When you flip a light switch to illuminate the pages of your favorite book or reach into your refrigerator for that last piece of key lime pie, you expect the electric current coursing through the outlets ...





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Clean energy to grow into 1.6 trillion euros industry: WWF

Space & Earth / Environment

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The clean energy technology sector will grow into a 1.6 trillion-euro (2.4 trillion-dollar) industry by 2020, becoming the third largest industrial sector after automobiles and electronics, WWF said Friday.


Rear Wheel Trouble Continues

Spirit Rover: Rear Wheel Trouble Continues

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Results of diagnostic tests on Spirit's right-rear wheel on Sol 2109 (Dec. 8, 2009) continue to indicate a troubled wheel, which may leave the rover with only four operable wheels.


Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Technology / Energy

created 11 hours ago | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Thursday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing featured testimony from experts about the power industry's need to develop systems capable of storing large amounts of electricity if the nation's ...


Stanford researchers develop the next generation of retinal implants

Medicine & Health / Research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Stanford researchers has developed a new generation of retinal implants that aims to provide higher resolution and make artificial vision more natural.


Researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel

Researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel

Biology / Biotechnology

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- The genetically modified cyanobacterium consumes carbon dioxide and produces the liquid fuel isobutanol by using energy from sunlight.


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Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere - and probably its oceans - did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University ...


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Scientists Create Material More Insulating than the Vacuum

Physics / General Physics

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.4 / 5 (36) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its complete lack of atoms, a vacuum is often considered to be the best known insulator. For this reason, vacuums are regularly used to reduce heat transfer, such as in the lining of ...


Understanding ocean climate

Understanding ocean climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how ...


1,700 UK scientists back climate science

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created 15 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 6

(AP) -- Fighting back against climate skeptics, over 1,700 scientists in Britain have signed a statement defending the evidence that climate change is being caused by humans, Britain's weather office said Thursday.


Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk

Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of one of the galaxy's most active black-hole binaries reveal a dramatic change that will help scientists better understand how these systems expel fast-moving particle jets.



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