Any driver knows it can be hard to remain calm behind the wheel. But perhaps high-tech tools can help. A new study by MIT researchers, announced Thursday, suggests that driver-assistance technologies lower the amount of stress ...
Engineering
Nov 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research that will improve understanding of how climate change will impact on New Zealand's glaciers and enable more accurate planning for water resource and tourism management in the South Island is being ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2010
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Although climate-controlled car seats don't spring to mind when you think of energy efficiency, the latest technology underpinning this luxury automobile feature is based on thermoelectrics—materials that convert electricity ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 8, 2010
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Fusion plasmas in the laboratory typically reach 100 million degrees. These high temperatures are required to ignite the hydrogen plasma and maintain the fusion burn by the production of high-energy alpha particles. One challenge ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft is planning to tap into the intimate knowledge taxi drivers have of their cities to improve their online mapping systems and help drivers navigate to their destinations faster.
Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have successfully used Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) to generate plasma current and couple it to a conventional current generation method at the National Spherical ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment in 2003 formed what was believed to be a new form of carbon, but the findings were controversial. Now two teams of scientists have used different means to identify a three-dimensional network ...
Whenever two pieces of metal at different voltages are brought near each other, as when an appliance is plugged into a live socket, there is a chance there will be an arc between them. Most of the arcs people see are a breakdown ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 8, 2010
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Physicists working on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are now one step closer to solving one of the grand challenges of magnetic fusion research -- how to reduce the ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 8, 2010
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Scientists show that 3-D movies are no longer just for Hollywood blockbusters.
Plasma Physics
Nov 8, 2010
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