News tagged with array
ARS Publishes Guide for Remote Solar Water Pumps
(PhysOrg.com) -- A guide to choosing a solar water pump for remote (off-grid) applications has been published by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
Mar 29, 2010 |
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HP Demos Rollup Flexible Displays (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Flexible Display Center, at Arizona State University, hopes to have flexible displays ready for test trials in approximately three years. The possibilities of using flexible displays are ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
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NASA and NOAA's Environmental Satellite Now GOES-15
(PhysOrg.com) -- Twelve days after a flawless launch, NASA and NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) reached its proper orbit and was renamed GOES-15. The latest weather satellite will complete ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Carbon nanotube sensor array detects single molecules for the first time
MIT chemical engineers have built a sensor array that, for the first time, can detect single molecules of hydrogen peroxide emanating from a single living cell.
Mar 07, 2010 |
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New method for connecting solar panels may increase efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar arrays of the future may be more energy efficient and reliable, thanks to one researcher's efforts to reconfigure the way panels are connected.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Computational Science Programming Model Crosses the Petaflop Barrier
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated that the PNNL-developed Global Arrays computational programming model can perform at ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Spirit Finishes Pre-Winter Drives
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is now parked for the winter. The rover team is commanding Spirit this week to make additional preparations for the Mars southern hemisphere winter season. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2010 |
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The Cosmic Distance Scale
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1908, Harvard astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered that a class of stars called Cepheids have brightnesses that vary regularly with periods that are directly related to their intrinsic ...
Jan 29, 2010 |
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GOES-P proceeds toward launch
The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-P is proceeding through more checks in preparation for its launch, which is no earlier than March 1.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similiar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma rays from it. The discovery, using the National ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Spirit Rover Switches to Backward Drives
(PhysOrg.com) -- The rover team has begun driving Spirit backward as next technique for attempting to extricate the rover from the sand trap where it is embedded. The first two backward drives produced about ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Giant Magnetic Loop Sweeps Through Space Between Stellar Pair
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have found a giant magnetic loop stretched outward from one of the stars making up the famous double-star system Algol. The scientists used an international collection of radio ...
Jan 13, 2010 |
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NASA's WISE Space Telescope Jettisons Its Cover
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers and scientists say the maneuver went off without a hitch, and everything is working properly. The mission's "first-light" images of the sky will be released to the public in about ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 30, 2009 |
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A New Method of Estimating Stellar Distances
(PhysOrg.com) -- The star Chi Cygni is located about 550 light-years away, in the direction of the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. It is a notable star because, unlike the sun which still burns hydrogen ...
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Astronauts to carry Christmas cheer to ISS
Despite being separated from their families, astronauts heading to the International Space Station next week are excited to be spending Christmas in space, a crew member said Saturday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2009 |
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