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Warp Power May Soon Add Extra Life to Your Cell Phone and iPod Batteries

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Roman Lysecky, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Arizona, has been awarded a grant of more than $400,000 by the National Science Foundation to develop high-performance customizable ...


Wireless at WARP speed

Wireless at WARP speed

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Nothing kills innovation like having to reinvent the wheel. Imagine how dull your diet would be if you had to build a new stove and hammer out a few cooking pots every time you wanted to test a new recipe. ...





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Research Leads to Self-Improving Chips with Speed 'Warping'

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 18, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (38) | comments 3

Imagine owning an automobile that can change its engine to suit your driving needs – when you’re tooling about town, it works like a super-fast sports car; when you’re hauling a heavy load, it operates like a strong, durable ...


Deriving the shape of the Galactic stellar disc

Deriving the shape of the Galactic stellar disc

Space & Earth /

created Mar 16, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

While analysing the complex structure of the Milky Way, an international team of astronomers from Italy and the United Kingdom has recently derived the shape of the Galactic outer stellar disc, and provided ...


New technology identifies warped fingerprints at warp speed

New technology identifies warped fingerprints at warp speed

Technology / Other

created Oct 01, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a means of identifying partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds.


Fingerprint technology beats world's toughest tests ... including 100s of builders' thumbs

Fingerprint technology beats world's toughest tests... including 100s of builders' thumbs

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Technology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top marks in the world's two ...


Hubble Reveals Two Dust Disks Around Nearby Star

Hubble Reveals Two Dust Disks Around Nearby Star

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 27, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 0

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed two dust disks circling the nearby star Beta Pictoris. The images confirm a decade of scientific speculation that a warp in the young star's dust disk may actually ...


Milky Way Galaxy is warped and vibrating like a drum

Milky Way Galaxy is warped and vibrating like a drum

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created Jan 09, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 0

The most prominent of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies - a pair of galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds - appears to be interacting with the Milky Way's ghostly dark matter to create a mysterious warp in ...


Dish prevails over TiVo in initial patent ruling

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Dish Network Corp. said Tuesday that it has received an initial favorable ruling related to its patent fight with TiVo Inc.


Probing Question: Can anything travel faster than the speed of light?

Probing Question: Can anything travel faster than the speed of light?

Physics /

created Mar 23, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (160) | comments 1

Can anything travel faster than the speed of light? "No," is what Albert Einstein would likely say if he was alive today -- and he would be the man to ask, because scientists have been taking his word for it ...


Last.fm Wants to Become the Web's MTV

Technology / Internet

created May 10, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Online social music site Last.fm is moving into the video realm, adding music videos with a goal of providing every video ever made.


The Magellanic Clouds Are First-Time Visitors

Magellanic clouds: Single measurement throws out everything we thought we knew

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 17, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (64) | comments 0

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are two of the Milky Way's closest neighboring galaxies. A stunning sight in the southern hemisphere, they were named after Ferdinand Magellan, ...



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