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Toshiba Unveils the CELL REGZA 55X1, First LCD TV Integrating the Cell Broadband Engine

Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the future of home entertainment, the CELL REGZA 55X1.

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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How to make a splash

(Phys.org) -- A team of physicists has used the high-energy x-rays of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to penetrate the everyday mystery of a splash, revealing previously hidden ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oceans apart: New research suggests that ocean-crust formation is a dynamic process

Three-fifths of Earth’s crust lies underwater, spread out along the seafloor. More than four cubic miles of ocean crust forms each year, constantly regenerating like new skin across the globe. This ocean ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fertilization by invasive species threatens nutrient-poor ecosystems

They can estimate whether native plants in the neighbourhood of invasive species incorporate the nitrogen fixed by the latter. The biologists examined the Sydney Golden Wattle (Acacia longifolia), an Australian shrub that ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Evolving planets get a bumpy ride

The formation of planets occurs under constant bombardment from particles ranging from a few nanometres to tens of kilometres in size, according to recent analyses of asteroid samples by scientists at Okayama ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Seeking a pot of geological gold

Researchers are moving a step closer to solving one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time. It happened roughly 200 million years ago, marking the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Physicists find that an ultrahigh-energy proton looks like a black disk

(PhysOrg.com) -- What does a proton look like? The common answer to this question is that protons are much too small to scatter light, and since light is necessary for us to see things, protons do not “look” ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 43 | with audio podcast feature

Four reasons why the quantum vacuum may explain dark matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this year, PhysOrg reported on a new idea that suggested that gravitational charges in the quantum vacuum could provide an alternative to dark matter. The idea rests on the hypothesis that particles ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (67) | comments 124 | with audio podcast report

Physicists turn liquid into solid using an electric field

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have predicted that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Technology funding makes climate protection cheaper

To cost‑effectively protect the climate, not only an emissions trading scheme but also financial support for new technologies is needed. Economising on targeted funding, for example for renewable energies, makes climate ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists develop new coral dating method, hint at future sea-level changes

New evidence of sea-level oscillations during a warm period that started about 125,000 years ago raises the possibility of a similar scenario if the planet continues its more recent warming trend, says a research team led ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast


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