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A Search for Stability for Platinum Catalysts

A Search for Stability for Platinum Catalysts

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new carbon support that greatly increases the durability of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells has been developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton University. ...


TeliaSonera launches first commercial 4G/LTE network

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nordic telecom operator TeliaSonera announced Monday the launch in Stockholm and Oslo of the world's first commercial 4G/LTE mobile network, up to 10 times faster than current networks.


Fujitsu Succeeds in World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes for Next-Generation Mobile Base

Fujitsu Announces World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that, using carbon nanotubes as heat-dissipation material in amplifier transistors, Fujitsu has become the first to achieve the successful operation of high-frequency, ...


New species of coral, sponges found near Hawaii

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- New and dramatic species of coral and sponges have been found in the Pacific during deep sea dives near the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, scientists said Monday.


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Google's SPDY will speed up downloads

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers ...


'Writing' Patterns on Carbon Nanotubes With Polymer Chains

'Writing' Patterns on Carbon Nanotubes With Polymer Chains

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes are at the center of the nanoelectronics research movement, with scientists making great progress toward getting nanotube-based electronic devices into the hands of consumers. ...


Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lara Estroff and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules.


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Scientists Image the 'Anatomy' of a Molecule (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (44) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, have taken a 3D image of an individual molecule. Using an atomic force microscope, the researchers constructed a "force map" of ...


Time Lens

Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...


Researchers propose new way to reproduce a black hole

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 27

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper published in the August ...


Bell Labs breaks optical transmission record, 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 0

Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). ...


Scientists produce first live action movie of individual carbon atoms in action (w/Videos)

Scientists Produce First Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action (w/Videos)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science fiction fans still have another two months of waiting for the new Star Trek movie, but fans of actual science can feast their eyes now on the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving ...


Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors

Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conquering one of the biggest challenges in the study of high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have grown ...


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Verizon Wireless Plans to Offer 4G Capability Next Year

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- In today's world, we want our information to travel faster. This is especially true as smart phones take over and we become used to using smaller devices to accomplish more while we are away ...


New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic

New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ON ...