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Study finds benefits of plug-in vehicles depend on battery size

Thinking about buying a new plug-in vehicle? You may want to check the size of its battery first.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Wolf hunting strategy follows simple rules

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of wolves (Canis lupus) has found that communication between pack members and a social hierarchy are not essential features of a successful hunt, and all the wolves have to do ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Strength in numbers? For wolves, maybe not

(PhysOrg.com) -- Watching a pack of wolves surround and hunt down much larger prey leaves most people with the impression that social predators live in groups because group hunting improves the odds of a kill. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Seagate portable storage goes wireless (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seagate's GoFlex Satellite is the first portable hard drive, with integrated Wi-Fi and battery pack, that lets you stream 500 GB directly to any mobile or Wi-Fi equipped device without using ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Latest 'green' packing material? Mushrooms

A new packing material that grows itself is now appearing in shipped products across the country.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

NTT Docomo's new smartphone features wireless charger

(PhysOrg.com) -- Charging your cell phone can be a hassle, mostly because you have to find your cord, and if you are anything like most people, you don't have just one charging cord lying around your house. ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Trinity physicist finds new way to pack spheres efficiently

(Phys.org) -- New collaborative research has revealed the most efficient method to date for packing spherical objects into a cylinder. Dr Ho-Kei Chan, a Research Fellow from the Foams and Complex Systems ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In winter's chill, cold batteries mean trouble for plug-in cars

Nobody worried about cold-weather performance of electric vehicle battery packs when it was warm outside, but now that Old Man Winter has descended, the problem is beginning to surface. When cars have a range of no more ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9

Packing it all in for the holidays: Scientists see how many polyhedrons can fit into a box

Whether it is Christmas shoppers mailing last minute gifts, or a steelyard dispatching ball bearings to factories, everyone wants to maximize the number of objects that fit into a container. Naturally the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Physicists show way to count sweets in a jar -- from inside the jar

(PhysOrg.com) -- How many sweets fit into a jar? This question depends on the shapes and sizes of the sweets, the size of the jar, and how it is filled. Surprisingly, this ancient question remains unanswered because of the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Jet-pack man soaring above California waters

There was James Bond. There was the Rocketeer. And now there is Bob Wilson, self-described "handyman, inventor, whatever," who is inspiring awe by donning a water-powered jet pack and soaring high into the ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Cigarettes will carry grisly new warning labels

(AP) -- Rotting teeth and gums. Diseased lungs. A sewn-up corpse of a smoker. Cigarette smoke coming out of the tracheotomy hole in a man's neck.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 15

Cooling fins help keep Chevrolet volt battery at ideal temperature

Engineers of the four-seat Chevrolet Volt electric car often refer to its 435-pound battery pack as the fifth passenger. Given the care taken to keep the pack at just the right temperature in all temperature ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tesla Motors to raise up to $214.3M (Update)

(AP) -- Electric car upstart Tesla Motors Inc. will sell common stock again, this time with hopes of raising $214 million to expand its limited model lineup.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Five myths about electric cars

Despite how many times they're told differently, some Americans persist in their belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Sorry, nope. And almost as enduring are the myths about the forthcoming ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (27) | comments 24