News tagged with functional capabilities

Fujitsu develops prototype of world's first server that simultaneously delivers high performance, flexibility

Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the construction of a next-generation server that, using resource pool architecture, is the world's first to succeed in the simultaneous delivery of high performance ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brain study could yield clues to schizophrenia

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have revealed the role of one type of brain cell in the development of a process crucial for memory and learning.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cassini Swaps Thrusters

(PhysOrg.com) -- Early this morning the Cassini spacecraft relayed information that it had successfully swapped to a backup set of propulsion thrusters late Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Novel holographic antenna designs and uses

Holographic antennas first studied around 40 years ago are again a hot topic given the potential of holographic images for a variety of applications. EU researchers developed novel prototype devices based ...

Technology / Engineering

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Researchers develop synthetic platelets

Synthetic platelets have been developed by UC Santa Barbara researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Scripps Research Institute and Sanford-Burnham Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Their findings are ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NHK shows downsized Super Hi-Vision video camera

(Phys.org) -- NHK this week placed on exhibit a shoulder-mount camera, developed in cooperation with Hitachi, capable of shooting what NHK calls super high vision (SHV) video in 7680×4320 resolution. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

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

Armenia jails Russian computer virus 'mastermind'

A court in Armenia on Tuesday gave a four-year jail sentence to the alleged Russian mastermind behind a computer virus crime group which infected some 30 million computers worldwide.

Technology / Internet

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

US Earth observations, science and services are critical to society but are at risk

Earth observations, science, and services (Earth OSS) inform and guide the activities of virtually all economic sectors and innumerable institutions underlying modern civilization, according to a new study by the American ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

New technique detects trace levels of new class of cancer biomarkers

(Phys.org) -- In less than a decade, a new type of RNA — microRNA (miRNA) — has gone from curiosity to one of the most important sets of regulatory molecules in the body. And because these short pieces of RNA are ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electron hopping in graphene oxide leads to highly sensitive sensing

(Phys.org) -- Graphene has many promising applications on its own, but pairing the two-dimensional material with the semiconductor titanium dioxide (TiO2) extends its capabilities even further. A team of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Functional genomics gets tiny

A little more than a decade ago, researchers discovered an ancient mechanism that cells use to silence genes. Like a dimmer switch turning down a light, RNA interference (RNAi) dials down gene activity in ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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