News tagged with folding plug
Folding plug wins international award for student inventor (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A design student, frustrated at having his brand new wafer-thin laptop scratched by the unwieldy and bulky plug attached to it, set about re-designing the standard British 3-pin plug that ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Human activity pulling the plug on a vital carbon sink
(PhysOrg.com) -- Under better conditions coastal ecosystems might be the ace in the hole to mitigate climate change, but human activity is significantly weakening their ability to naturally dampen the impacts of rising CO2 ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Researchers generate first complete 3-D structures of bacterial chromosome
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Stanford University and the Prince Felipe Research Centre in Spain have deciphered the complete three-dimensional structure ...
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Crash-safe battery protection for electric cars
Everyone is talking about electric drives, and the scientists from Fraunhofer are also working on them. Engineers have replaced a battery box for lithium-ion batteries with a lightweight component. Not only ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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You can take it with you: Transfer open applications between computer, cellphone with a snapshot
Have you ever found yourself looking up directions on your computer just before running out the door, only to end up retyping the same addresses and mapping the same route on your phone minutes later? A new ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Dry ice lake suggests Mars once had a 'Dust Bowl' (Update)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered the total amount of atmosphere on Mars changes dramatically as the tilt of the planet's axis varies. This process can affect the stability ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Biophysicist targeting IL-6 to halt breast, prostate cancer
An Ohio State biophysicist used a supercomputer to search thousands of molecular combinations for the best configuration to block a protein that can cause breast or prostate cancer.
Apr 19, 2011 |
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New method takes snapshots of proteins as they fold
(PhysOrg.com) -- People have only 20,000 to 30,000 genes (the number is hotly contested), but they use those genes to make more than 2 million proteins. It's the protein molecules that domost of the work in ...
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Review: Watching live TV on the go, for free
(AP) -- Here in the U.S., consumers have grown used to gadgets that do just about everything: surf the Web, check e-mail, play games, download music and even relay driving directions.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Engineers take plasmon lasers out of deep freeze
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new technique that allows plasmon lasers to operate at room temperature, overcoming a major barrier to practical utilization ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Gift Guide: The best cameras for every budget
(AP) -- Digital cameras have been popular gifts for a decade, but enthusiasm is waning, as most households already have one. The good news is that if you do know someone who could use a fresher model, it's ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 10, 2010 |
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