News tagged with world record
Tesla Roadster Goes 313 Miles on a Single Charge
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tesla is becoming synonymous with high performance electric cars. Indeed, the Tesla car company has been making efforts to create a brand of sports car that runs on electricity, and does so ...
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Researchers use trident laser to accelerate protons to record energies
Nov 02, 2009 |
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An international team of physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has succeeded in using intense laser light to accelerate protons to energies never before achieved. Using this technique, scientists can ...
Australian woman dies after 60 years in iron lung
Oct 31, 2009 |
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An Australian woman who spent a record-breaking 60 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio died Saturday in a Melbourne nursing home, aged 83.
Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, ...
Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and ...
Killer fungus threatening amphibians
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Amphibians like frogs and toads have existed for 360 million years and survived when the dinosaurs didn't, but a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many of them extinct, according to an article in the ...
Advanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs).
A mobile phone or an MP3 player tells if you're sleeping soundly
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Finnish researcher Väinö Virtanen has developed a method for analysing snoring sounds by using a PC with a microphone connection and a wireless microphone. The objective was to create an application that could be used ...
CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month hiatus: official
Nov 20, 2009 |
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The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.
UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because they don't get enough to eat, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem ...
Previously Unknown Volcanic Eruption Helped Trigger Cold Decade
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809.
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