News tagged with energy standards

Two new excited states of the Lambda-b beauty particle observed by LHCb

In beautiful agreement with the Standard Model, two new excited states of the Λb beauty particle have just been observed by the LHCb Collaboration. Similarly to protons and neutrons, Λb is composed of three qua ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Dance like a neutrino: Quantum scheme to simulate neutrino oscillations

The behaviour of some of the most elusive particles in the known universe can be simulated using three atoms in a lab, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore have ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Portable chargers, boosters to ease green car woes

Chevrolet Europe's president Susan Doherty drives to work every day in an electric car, and thanks to a recharging station at work, she never worries about running out of power.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Calif. imposes battery charger energy standards

(AP) -- California will require cellphones, tablets and hundreds of other electronic devices to have energy-efficient battery chargers beginning next year.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 22

Closest Type Ia supernova in decades solves a cosmic mystery

Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia's) are the extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar "standard candles" astronomers use to measure cosmic growth, a technique that in 1998 led to the discovery of dark energy ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 177 | with audio podcast

CAFE standards create profit incentive for larger vehicles

(PhysOrg.com) -- The current Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards create a financial incentive for auto companies to make bigger vehicles that are allowed to meet lower targets, according to a new University of Michigan ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers draft blueprint to boost energy innovation

The U.S. government could save the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year by 2050 by spending a few billion dollars more a year to spur innovations in energy technology, according to a new report by researchers ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 9

Feds aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent

NASA opened an energy efficient office building at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The Navy is running boats on biofuel in Norfolk.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 13

Z-prime search may hurdle Higgs hunt

If you're bummed about humanity's biggest accelerator not producing a Higgs particle yet, maybe the latest effort to find a Z-prime will make you feel better. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

LHC experiments eliminate more Higgs hiding spots (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two experimental collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, announced today that they have significantly narrowed the mass region in which the Higgs ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Report presents best policy options to reduce petroleum use

It will take more than tougher fuel economy standards for U.S. transportation to significantly cut its oil use over the next half century. It will likely require a combination of measures that foster consumer and supplier ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Shedding light: New bulb law goes into effect in 2012

When it comes to the new lighting law, a lot of people seem to be in the dark.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 16

Advocates press Congress on renewable energy standard

Renewable energy advocates are pushing Congress to include a renewable electricity standard in a climate bill that was proposed Tuesday in the Senate, and the idea got a boost this week when 27 Democrats and a Republican ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab revealed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Durham astronomers' doubts about the 'dark side'

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by astronomers in the Physics Department at Durham University suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the Universe may be wrong. Graduate student Utane Sawangwit ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (53) | comments 72 | with audio podcast