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Scientists discover reason for Mt. Hood's non-explosive nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- For a half-million years, Mount Hood has towered over the landscape, but unlike some of its cousins in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains and many other volcanoes around the Pacific “Rim ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research shows continued decline of Oregon's largest glacier

An Oregon State University research program has returned to Collier Glacier for the first time in almost 20 years and found that the glacier has decreased more than 20 percent from its size in the late 1980s.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Eruptive characteristics of Oregon's Mount Hood analyzed

A new study has found that a mixing of two different types of magma is the key to the historic eruptions of Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest mountain, and that eruptions often happen in a relatively short time ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast




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Flexible, paper-based supercapacitor could improve performance of hybrid electric vehicles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that using supercapacitors in conjunction with batteries could greatly increase the fuel economy of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) due to the fact that supercapacitors can ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

When your criminal past isn't yours

(AP) -- A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets.

Technology / Other

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Will Red Planet rover send groundbreaking data over?

One of the most sophisticated space vehicles ever made inches along the rocky landscape, aluminum wheels grinding like a spoon in a garbage disposal.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 14

Research finds that a duck's boon might be a turtle's bane

Duck nest boxes used to aid cavity-nesting ducks can prove to be turtle death traps.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

New program to expand, enhance use of LIDAR sensing technology

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new system that will enable highway construction engineers in the field to immediately analyze soil movements caused by active landslides and erosion ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Simple security for wireless: no password required

In early August, at the Def Con conference — a major annual gathering of computer hackers — someone apparently hacked into many of the attendees’ cell phones, in what may have been the first successful breach ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Toyota's new pre-crash technology directs steering

Toyota is developing a safety technology that takes control of the steering so the vehicle can veer away when it isn't able to stop before impact.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 23

Sun-driven and Australia-bound

To build a car powered completely by the sun, a team of Berkeley students is burning lots of midnight oil.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pedestrians injured by the windshield frame in car crashes

Pedestrian disability and fatality as a consequence of car crashes is a large global health problem. A new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet now shows that upper-body collision with the car's lower windscreen is ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SIM-Drive Corp announces new 'in-wheel' electric car

(PhysOrg.com) -- SIM-Drive Corporation, a Japanese consortium based in Kawasaki-shi and comprised of 34 companies and municipalities, has announced that it has developed a functioning electric car based on ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 82 | with audio podcast report


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