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Sea levels will continue to rise for 500 years: study

Rising sea levels in the coming centuries is perhaps one of the most catastrophic consequences of rising temperatures. Massive economic costs, social consequences and forced migrations could result from global ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Small defects mean big problems for industrial solar cells

Nanoscale clustering of metal impurities at intragranular dislocations within industrial mc-Si solar cells have been observed by users from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with the Center ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Jaguar' supercomputer gaining speed

Cray Inc. said it has sealed a deal to overhaul the US Department of Energy's "Jaguar" supercomputer, making it faster than any other machine on the planet.

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 89

Copper nanowire films could lower touch screen, LED and solar cell costs

Copper nanowires may be coming to a little screen near you. These new nanostructures have the potential to drive down the costs of displaying information on cell phones, e-readers and iPads, and they could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Revolutionary conducting polymer enables silicon use as next generation of lithium-ion battery anodes

Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, in smart phones, laptops, an array of other consumer electronics, and the newest electric cars. Good as they are, they could be much better, especially when it comes to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Europe's first human embryonic stem cell trial approved

A US biotech company said Thursday it will soon begin the first-ever European trials using human embryonic stem cells in an experimental treatment for people with a form of juvenile blindness.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Recent trends show recession's effect on US advanced technology exports

U.S. exports of advanced technology products (ATP) fared better than other non-advanced technology exports during the recent U.S. recession, says a new report from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Technology / Business

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tiny wires change behavior at nanoscale

Thin gold wires often used in high-end electronic applications are wonderfully flexible as well as conductive. But those qualities don't necessarily apply to the same wires at the nanoscale.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UCLA engineers create fully stretchable OLED

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created the first fully stretchable organic light-emitting diode (OLED). The researchers devised a way of creating a carbon nanotube ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 27, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

DARPA releases video of HTV-2 hypersonic glider flight

An unmanned glider streaks over the Pacific Ocean at 20 times the speed of sound in a video released Thursday by a U.S. defense research agency experimenting with technology that could give the military the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (24) | comments 66

AMD names new CEO from Lenovo

(AP) -- Chipmaker AMD says its new chief executive will be Rory P. Read, the chief operating officer of Lenovo Group.

Technology / Business

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World's toughest encryption scheme found 'vulnerable'

It was announced last week that cryptography researchers have found a “vulnerability” in the encryption scheme used in the vast majority of secure online transactions – a scheme known as AES-256. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

IBM pursues chips that behave like brains

Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it's only a narrow mimicry of what ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 18

US looks for answers after hypersonic plane fails

Pentagon scientists on Friday acknowledged they were puzzled by the failed flight test of an experimental hypersonic plane and said they were trying to understand what went wrong. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 58

Physicists take inspiration from spilled milk

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Lehigh physicists have developed an imaging technique that makes it possible to directly observe light-emitting excitons as they diffuse in a new material that is being explored for its ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast