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

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 ...

Technology / Engineering

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

Wireless at WARP speed

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. ...

Technology / Engineering

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




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Researchers create 3-D laser maps that show how earthquake changes landscape

Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Will bubble-powered microrockets zoom through the human stomach?

Scientists have developed a new kind of tiny motor — which they term a "microrocket" — that can propel itself through acidic environments, such as the human stomach, without any external energy source, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Hubble zooms in on a magnified galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a uniquely close-up look at the brightest "magnified" galaxy yet discovered.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Warning of unrest, new study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Virtual Projection team puts iPhone writing on the wall (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaborative team from the University of Calgary, University of Munich, and Columbia, have figured out a way to use a smartphone to project the phone’s display on to external displays ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

REL, Inc. teams with NYU-Poly to create lightweight, ultra durable automotive brake rotor

REL, Inc. teams with NYU-Poly to create lightweight, ultra durable automotive brake rotor

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New automated imaging to greatly speed whole-brain mapping efforts

A new technology developed by neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) transforms the way highly detailed anatomical images can be made of whole brains. Until now, means of obtaining such images ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Slippery when stacked: Theorists quantify the friction of graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- Similar to the way pavement, softened by a hot sun, will slow down a car, graphene—a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon with wondrous properties—slows down an object sliding across its ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Image: Active Galaxy Centaurus A

(PhysOrg.com) -- Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Cotton computing goes live at Cornell textiles lab

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from France, Italy and the United States are weaving cotton with transistors for a new look in computing. Based on news about a lab at Cornell University, wearable computing is ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report


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