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Imec implements multi-mode digital TV receiver on reconfigurable processor with record area efficiency

Imec developed a reconfigurable receiver for highly diversified digital video broadcasting standards (DVB-T, ISDB-T and ATSC). The receiver is realized using algorithm-architecture co-optimization of imec’s reconfigurable ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Intelligent building technology enhances energy efficiency

Prof. Wang Shengwei, Chair Professor of Building Services Engineering, and his research team recently developed an intelligent Building Life-cycle Diagnosis and Optimization technology that enhances the energy ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Achieving optimal efficiencies for nanoengines

(PhysOrg.com) -- "There's a lot of recent interest in understanding the functioning and optimal performance of small systems," Katja Lindenberg tells PhysOrg.com. Lindenberg is a scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Bi ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1 feature

Optimum running speed is stride toward understanding human body form

(PhysOrg.com) -- Runners, listen up: If your body is telling you that your pace feels a little too fast or a little too slow, it may be right.

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Nimbus Lab sends up quadrotors for wireless charging (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nimbus Lab are exploring wireless power transmission as a way to power devices. They have designed and built a custom power-transfer and ...

Electronics / Robotics

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Sharp develops concentrator solar cell with world’s highest conversion efficiency of 43.5%

Sharp Corporation has achieved the world’s highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 43.5% using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell. These solar cells are used in a lens-based concentrator ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Robot uses 3-D imaging and sensor-based cutting technology to debone poultry

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a prototype system that uses advanced imaging technology and a robotic cutting arm to automatically debone chicken and ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Singapore scientists design novel genome sequencing data compression method

Hitachi and Data Storage Institute (DSI), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) are devising a data compression technique to tackle the increasing volume of genome sequencing data ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Let the sun shine and the plants will follow

Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance scientist and artist extraordinaire, in the 15th century was the first to record his observation that some plants appeared to follow the Sun, and he was not the last. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

OSC's Oakley Cluster delivers on performance efficiency

The Ohio Supercomputer Center's newest system would fall within the top half of the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers based purely on speed, but the cluster would rank even higher – ninth ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds emissions from widely used cookstoves vary with use

The smoke rising from a cookstove fills the air with the tantalizing aroma of dinner – and a cloud of pollutants and particles that threaten both health and the environment. How families in developing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study cracks a secret of methanol production

(Phys.org) -- What’s the best way to make methanol? The question is more pressing than it sounds. Not only is methanol an important industrial chemical – some 50 million tons are used each year to ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Real-time monitoring of RNA splicing in living cells moves step closer with novel fluorescent probe

Numerous biological processes depend on molecules called lariat RNAs (LaRNAs). These lasso-shaped structures form in the cell during RNA splicing. During this process, transcribed RNA strands convert to messenger ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

TV maker Vizio turns to computers, takes on Apple, Dell and HP

Vizio is no stranger to defying the odds. The once little-known company came from practically nowhere to become one of the USA's biggest TV makers, wresting the title from the top electronics companies, including Sony. Its ...

Technology / Business

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2


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