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SKA super telescope to be built in Australia, South Africa (Update 2)

A long-running joust to host a radio telescope that would give mankind its farthest peek into the Universe ended on Friday with a Solomon-like judgement to split the site between Australia and South Africa.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Cyborg insects generate power for their own neural control

(PhysOrg.com) -- For many years, researchers have been working on designing and fabricating micro-air-vehicles (MAVs), flying robots the size of small insects. But after realizing how difficult it is to create ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 24 | with audio podcast feature

Shape-changing liquid metal antenna could lead to responsive electronic devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have fabricated a fluidic antenna that can change its shape, and therefore the frequency at which it resonates, in response to pressure in a controlled and predictable manner. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Several antennas in one: A major innovation for mobile communications

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at EPFL have developed a single antenna that is capable of transmitting the same data as a two-antenna system. This achievement will be more than useful for future communication systems.

Technology / Engineering

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Spray-on antenna gets great reception at Google event

(PhysOrg.com) -- A spray-on antenna? The idea is not fantasy but real and tested technology that works. A Utah startup has introduced a spray-on signal booster in a can that promises an improved signal. The ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (17) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report

Metal nanoparticles shine with customizable color (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Harvard have demonstrated a new kind of tunable color filter that uses optical nanoantennas to obtain precise control of color output.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Biologists turn back the clock to understand evolution of sex differences

Sex differences account for some of the most of the spectacular traits in nature: the wild colours of male guppies, the plumage of peacocks, tusks on walruses and antlers on moose. Sexual conflict – the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

No-photon laser: Physicists demonstrate 'superradiant' laser design

Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a novel "superradiant" laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best conventional visible lasers. This type of laser could boost ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Primordial weirdness: Did the early universe have 1 dimension?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (37) | comments 200 | with audio podcast

Holiday customers will be tracked by their phones

(PhysOrg.com) -- Black Friday shoppers in California and Virginia might learn their phones are being tracked as they move along the mall. That's the plan at the Promenade Temecula in southern California and ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 15 | with audio podcast report

Smart skin: Electronics that stick and stretch like a temporary tattoo (w/ video)

Engineers have developed a device platform that combines electronic components for sensing, medical diagnostics, communications and human-machine interfaces, all on an ultrathin skin-like patch that mounts ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Making a light-harvesting antenna from scratch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes when people talk about solar energy, they tacitly assume that we're stuck with some version of the silicon solar cell and its technical and cost limitations. Not so.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanoscientists build antenna for light

University of Toronto researchers have derived inspiration from the photosynthetic apparatus in plants to engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from light.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New glass stamp may make cheaper, more precise biosensors

Advances in microchip technology may someday enable clinicians to perform tests for hundreds of diseases -- sifting out specific molecules, such as early stage cancer cells -- from just one drop of blood. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antennas in your clothes? New design could pave the way

(PhysOrg.com) -- The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast