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Researchers demonstrate 100-watt-level mid-infrared lasers

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Northwestern University researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 watts from a single device at room temperature.


Workers at the Statkraft Osmotic power plant prototype in Tofte

Harnessing the power of salt, Norway tries osmotic power

Technology / Energy

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 4

After wind, sun, currents and tides, a company is preparing to make clean electricity by harnessing another natural phenomenon, the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater.


California targets TVs to lower electricity demand (AP)

Calif. requires TVs to be more energy-efficient (Update)

Technology / Energy

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions Wednesday in hopes of reducing electricity use at a time when millions of American households are switching ...


Selling chip makers on optical computing

Selling chip makers on optical computing

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir ...


Intelligent blood bags

Intelligent blood bags

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Have the blood supplies got too warm? Do they match the patient?s blood group? In the future, these kinds of questions will be answered by intelligent radio nodes attached to blood bags. These ...


Futuristic Intel Chip

Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (31) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...


Crashing the size barrier

Crashing the size barrier

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works. Now they're developing it as a way to ...


Solar power coming to a store near you (AP)

Solar power coming to a store near you

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 20

(AP) -- Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install.


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 (26) | comments 6

(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 ...


10 unusual gadgets and gifts for geeks

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Nerds. Geeks. Fanboys. Whatever you call them, the comics aficionados, movie buffs and videogame enthusiasts who dwell amongst us can be really hard to shop for. But it gets dramatically worse this time of year, when everyone ...



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