News tagged with hot
Research Team Finds Evidence Cacao Ritually Used in Chaco Canyon
(PhysOrg.com) -- Inhabitants of Chaco Canyon apparently drank chocolate from cylinders like these about a thousand years ago. That’s the finding in a paper published this week by PNAS, a publication of the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Scientists Develop First Chip-Scale Thermoelectric Cooler
(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer chips become more powerful, they also become hotter. Nearly all the power that flows into a chip comes out of it as waste heat, and that heat hurts the performance of the chip. ...
Omega-3s ease depressive symptoms related to menopause
Omega-3s ease psychological distress and depressive symptoms often suffered by menopausal and perimenopausal women, according to researchers at Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine. Their study, published in the ...
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Water heaters put solar energy within reach
Andrei Mitran of Cary says he has no desire to live "off the grid." But when choosing a replacement for his 18-year-old hot water heater, the computer programmer says he decided to look into purchasing a solar unit.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Exoplanet atmospheres detected from Earth for the first time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Transiting exoplanets are routinely detected when they pass in front of their parent star as viewed from the Earth, which only happens by chance. The transit event causes a small drop in the ...
Jan 14, 2009 |
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