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X-ray named top achievement by British museum

The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Space weather expert has ominous forecast

A stream of highly charged particles from the sun is headed straight toward Earth, threatening to plunge cities around the world into darkness and bring the global economy screeching to a halt.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 7

Space environmentalist warns we need to better prepare for solar storms

(Phys.org) -- In the business of everyday life, it’s easy to overlook things that could cause a serious disruption to how life is lived; floods happen, hurricanes, volcanoes and tsunamis like the one ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Effects of solar flares arriving on Earth

(AP) -- The impact of a series of eruptions on the sun began arriving at Earth on Friday and could affect some communications for a day or so.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 45

T-shirt charges your phone by absorbing ambient sound (w/ video)

First there was tie-dye, then there was hypercolor. Could piezoelectric fabrics that charge your mobile phone while you wear them be the next big T-shirt fad? That's what the French telecom company, Orange, is counting on, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Getting ready for the next big solar storm

(PhysOrg.com) -- In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average1 solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't sure ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

The birth of electrical engineering

In September 1882, Thomas Edison opened the first commercial power plant in the United States, serving 59 customers in a square mile of Lower Manhattan. That same fall, MIT made electrical history of its own, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'

The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (37) | comments 57

Protecting the North American power grid from widespread blackouts

Every hundred years or so, a solar storm comes along so potent it fills the skies of Earth with blood-red auroras, makes compass needles point in the wrong direction, and sends electric currents coursing through ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Microbial hair -- it's electric: Specialized bacterial filaments shown to conduct electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some bacteria grow electrical hair that lets them link up in big biological circuits, according to a University of Southern California biophysicist and his collaborators.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Magnetic stimulation scores modest success as antidepressant

Some depressed patients who don't respond to or tolerate antidepressant medications may benefit from a non-invasive treatment that stimulates the brain with a pulsing electromagnet, a study suggests. This ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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