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Predicting an electric future

Experts at Northumbria University have developed a formula to predict the impact that electric cars will have on the nation’s power supplies. 

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Japan's Elpida to be delisted from Tokyo Stock Exchange

Japan's Elpida Memory, one of the world's top microchip makers, is set to be delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday in the biggest corporate failure in Japanese manufacturing history.

Technology / Business

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Writing graphene circuitry with ion 'pens'

The unique electrical properties of graphene have enticed researchers to envision a future of fast integrated circuits made with the one-carbon-atom-thick sheets, but many challenges remain on the path to commercialization. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers find simple and cheap way to mass-produce graphene nanosheets

Mixing a little dry ice and a simple industrial process cheaply mass-produces high-quality graphene nanosheets, researchers in South Korea and Case Western Reserve University report.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (33) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Calif. settlement will fund car charging network

(AP) -- An energy company accused of artificially inflating the cost of electricity, leading to California's power crisis a decade ago, agreed to pay a $120 million settlement that will fund 10,000 electric car charging ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

An optical diode made with silicon technology can be used for quantum information

(PhysOrg.com) -- Transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes. All of these are examples of common electrical circuit elements that can be found on a computer motherboard, for instance. Billions of transistors ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

First-ever use of airborne resistivity system in Antarctica allows researchers to look beneath surface in untapped terri

(PhysOrg.com) -- National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers have successfully tested equipment to map the hidden distribution of groundwater and ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region for the first ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers take first-ever measurement of auroral turbulence using a nanosatellite radar receiver

Researchers from SRI International and the University of Michigan have taken the first-ever measurement of naturally occurring auroral turbulence recorded using a nanosatellite radar receiver. The research was done with support ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Development of a new method for the boron-doping of two dimensional carbon materials

Kyoto University researchers have developed a new method for the boron-doping of two dimensional carbon materials, which is expected to be a promising approach towards the development of highly efficient electron ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How the alphabet of data processing is growing: Research team generates flying 'qubits'

The alphabet of data processing could include more elements than the "0" and "1" in future. An international research team has achieved a new kind of bit with single electrons, called quantum bits, or qubits. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flexible, paper-based supercapacitor could improve performance of hybrid electric vehicles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that using supercapacitors in conjunction with batteries could greatly increase the fuel economy of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) due to the fact that supercapacitors can ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers show the way forward for improving organic and molecular electronic devices

Future prospects for superior new organic electronic devices are brighter now thanks to a new study by researchers with the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Working at the Lab's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

80% in Japan 'support nuclear phase-out'

Eighty percent of Japanese want to phase out the country's reliance on nuclear power and eventually eliminate it, a poll said Sunday, a year after Japan was hit by a massive nuclear disaster.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Third research team close to creating Majorana fermion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently there has been a virtual explosion of research efforts aimed at creating the elusive Majorana fermion with different groups claiming to be near to creating them. First there was news that a team ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene

In what became known as the 'Scotch tape technique," researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb, hexagonal pattern. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast