News tagged with ambient conditions

New silicon memory chip developed

(Phys.org) -- The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions – opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - has been developed by researchers ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Stable electrodes for improving printed electronics

Imagine owning a television with the thickness and weight of a sheet of paper. It will be possible, someday, thanks to the growing industry of printed electronics. The process, which allows manufacturers to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fujitsu develops power saving system control technology for container data centers

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of a power conservation system control technology that reduces overall power consumption in container data centers by closely coordinating the operation ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Seeing the wood for the trees: New study shows sheep in tree-ring records

Nibbling by herbivores can have a greater impact on the width of tree rings than climate, new research has found. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, could ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seeing an atomic thickness

Scientists from NPL, in collaboration with Linkoping University, Sweden, have shown that regions of graphene of different thickness can be easily identified in ambient conditions using Electrostatic Force ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bees warm up with a drink, too

When we venture out on a cool morning, nothing energises our body like a nice warm drink and new research reveals that bees also use the same idea when they're feeling cold.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Artificially controlling water condensation leads to 'room-temperature ice'

Earth's climate is strongly influenced by the presence of particles of different shapes and origins -- in the form of dust, ice and pollutants -- that find their way into the lowest portion of the atmosphere, the troposphere. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

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