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Gallium Nitride (GaN) Inverter IC

Panasonic Develops A Gallium Nitride (GaN) Inverter IC for Motor Drive with High Efficiency

Technology / Semiconductors

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based monolithic inverter integrated circuit (IC) for motor drive. The integrated six GaN-based transistors can be independently driven ...


Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...


A see-through surprise: Scientists make solid material transparent to terahertz waves

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 1

Very often in science, the unexpected discovery turns out to be the most significant. Rice University Professor Junichiro Kono and his team weren't looking for a breakthrough in the transmission of terahertz signals, but ...


NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), launched aboard STS-129 on November, 16, for transport to the International ...


Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab

Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (22) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Due to their violent nature and long distance from Earth, black holes and their surroundings are very difficult to study. Currently, the main method to observe a black hole is to use an X-ray ...


Global warming may require higher dams, stilts (AP)

Global warming may require higher dams, stilts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(AP) -- With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die.


Sea Level Is Rising Along U.S. Atlantic Coast, According to New Data Analysis

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century ...


CO2 levels rising in troposphere over rural areas

CO2 levels rising in troposphere over rural areas

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Spanish researchers have measured CO2 levels for the past three years in the troposphere (lower atmosphere) over a sparsely inhabited rural area near Valladolid. The results, which are the first of their kind ...


Turbulence around heat transport

Turbulence around heat transport

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heat transport in the earth's mantle and in the atmosphere is probably not as effective as previously thought.


Brown fat cells make 'spare tires' shrink

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Bonn have found a new signalling pathway which stimulates the production and function of so-called brown fat cells. They propose using these cells that serve as a "natural ...



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