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New Kindle Touch is an impressive e-reader

When it comes to reading digital books, tablets are all the rage. But there's a lot to like about simple e-readers, which over the past year have become both a lot cheaper and a lot less clunky.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Harnessing plasmonics, engineers weld nanowires with light

At the nano level, researchers at Stanford have discovered a new way to weld together meshes of tiny wires. Their work could lead to exciting new electronics and solar applications. To succeed, they called ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Solar storm sparks dazzling northern lights

A storm from the broiling sun turned the chilly northernmost skies of Earth into an ever-changing and awe-provoking art show of northern lights on Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Coveted TED prize goes to city of the future

TED for the first time awarded its coveted annual prize to an idea instead of a person, naming the smart city of the future as winner of the prestigious group's backing.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Baby turtles don't just go with the flow

At just a few centimeters long, hatchling loggerhead turtles may seem powerless to resist being swept around the Atlantic Ocean by powerful currents.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

GigaBlitz event seeks citizen scientists to capture images of nearby biodiversity

From a bike path in Montana to a backwater underneath a highway overpass in Austria, citizen scientists fanned out last June to capture high-resolution images for the first Nearby Nature GigaBlitz. Organizers are hoping for ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New program to expand, enhance use of LIDAR sensing technology

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new system that will enable highway construction engineers in the field to immediately analyze soil movements caused by active landslides and erosion ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lessons learned from the two worst oils spills in U.S. history

One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and two decades after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska the scientific lesson is clear ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Cognitive neuroscientists shed light on how the brain responds to scenes and their mirror-image reversals

Picture a penny. You can probably recall its color (copper), which historical figure graces its front (Abraham Lincoln), and even the orientation of the portrait (profile, as opposed to straight on). But ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

'Orca ears' inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have developed a microphone that can be used at any depth in the ocean, even under crushing pressure, and is sensitive to a wide range of sounds, from a whisper in a library ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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