News tagged with frequency conversion

Voice analysis aims to spot phone scams

Nagoya University researchers and Fujitsu Ltd. have developed technology they say can analyze suspicious phone conversations and detect bank transfer scams with a high degree of accuracy.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New light at the end of the tunnel

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists successfully concentrated the energy of infrared laser pulses using a nano funnel enabling them to generate extreme ultraviolet light pulses, which repeated ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Largest human exomes data reveals an excess of low frequency non-synonymous coding variants

In a paper appearing in Nature Genetics today, an international research group reported the resequencing and analysis of 200 human exomes, established the largest data set for human exomes published so far and reveal an exc ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Up-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry

In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2




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Sci-fi no longer, NREL engineers smart homes

Thanks to TV shows such as The Jetsons and Star Trek, many Americans grew up dreaming that homes of the future would be equipped with fantastic high-tech features. From automatic food dispensers to sliding do ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Low speed wind tunnel gets new motor

A new motor has been installed in the Oran W. Nicks Low Speed Wind Tunnel, replacing a 900RPM, 1,000-horsepower synchronous motor from Allis-Chalmers that was surplused by the U.S. Navy back in World War II.

Technology / Engineering

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Viewers' family background affects how they react to MTV shows 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom

Two popular MTV programs about teenage pregnancy -- "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen Mom" -- were met with national debate. Critics said the shows glamorized teenage pregnancy, while supporters said they discouraged it.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists document fragile land-sea ecological chain

(Phys.org) -- Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles did not set out to discover one of the longest ecological interaction chains ever documented. But that's exactly what they and a team of researchers – ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Roboticist creates Hugvie - Huggable vibrating pillow smartphone accessory

(Phys.org) -- Japanese robot designer Hiroshi Ishiguro is fast becoming a sort of roboticist for the people, in Japan anyway. Instead of terminator style robots meant to do a lot of serious work or to serve on the battlefield, ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast weblog

Improving on the amazing: Scientists seek new conductors for metamaterials

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have designed a method to evaluate different conductors for use in metamaterial structures, which are engineered to exhibit ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Mechanical properties and microstructure of cranial and beak bones of the woodpecker and the lark

Woodpeckers do not experience head injury despite repeated high-speed impacts during pecking at 6-7 m/s and decelerations up to 1,000 g. This biomechanical analysis of woodpecker cranial structures sheds light ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Processes at the surface of catalysts: Oxygen defects act as active centers

In chemical industry, heterogeneous catalysis is of crucial importance to the manufacture of basic or fine chemicals, in catalytic converters of exhaust gas, or for the chemical storage of solar energy. Scientists ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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

First, fast, and faster

(Phys.org) -- Scientists in PML's Quantum Measurement Division have produced the first superluminal light pulses made by using a technique called four-wave mixing, creating two separate pulses whose peaks ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array: Famous radio telescope officially gets new name

Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world's most famous radio telescope and to mark its transformation ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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