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Ground speed sensor technology developed for motor vehicles

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Hitachi, Ltd. announced the development of a compact and low cost speed sensor technology for motor vehicles which provides accurate measurement of relative velocity using an mm–wave radar (77GHz band). The technology enables ...





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Measuring distances in microseconds

Measuring distances in microseconds

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Standard laser devices are fast enough for measuring the size of a room, but they need to be faster for outdoor mobile applications. Researchers have brought these scanners up to speed -- ...


Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir

Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.


Smallest nanoantennas for high-speed data networks

Smallest nanoantennas for high-speed data networks

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

More than 120 years after the discovery of the electromagnetic character of radio waves by Heinrich Hertz, wireless data transmission dominates information technology. Higher and higher radio frequencies are ...


Campus camera network part of new study

Campus camera network part of new study

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- B.S. Manjunath came up with the idea for his latest research project during a faculty meeting a few years ago. The UC Santa Barbara professor of electrical & computer engineering spotted a ...


IBM Research Aims to Build Nanoscale DNA Sequencer (w/ Video)

IBM Research Aims to Build Nanoscale DNA Sequencer (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer, IBM scientists are drilling nano-sized holes in computer-like chips and passing DNA strands through them in order to read the information contained ...


3 Americans share 2009 Nobel Prize in physics (AP)

'Masters of light' win Nobel Physics Prize

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering "masters of light" work on fibre optics and semiconductors, the Nobel jury said.


New technology detects chemical weapons in seconds

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast are developing new sensors to detect chemical agents and illegal drugs which will help in the fight against the threat of terrorist attacks.


Stay focused: Researchers sharpen photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images

Stay focused: Researchers sharpen photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- For photographers, it's sometimes difficult to keep both the foreground and background of an image in focus. Focusing somewhere between the two can ensure that neither is blurry; but neither ...


Clemson researchers study energy savings with electric cars and IntelliDrive technology

Technology / Energy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clemson University researchers have been awarded a $470,000 National Science Foundation grant to study making plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) more efficient to reduce fossil fuel use.


The robot children

The robot children

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The brains of the snake robots are still no more advanced than that of a one-year-old, but scientists at SINTEF (Norway) want to bring them up to the level of a teenager. At least.



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