News tagged with revolutionary approach

Review: Thunderbird innovates, but Web mail wins

The last time I relied on email software for personal messaging, George W. Bush was starting his second term, Pluto was still a planet and the Motorola Razr was America's most popular mobile phone.

Technology / Software

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (12) | comments 4

Design revolution

A revolutionary approach to the design of consumer products - from automobiles to plasma TVs - could cut manufacturers' warranty costs significantly. Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Six Sigma an ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1




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SKA super telescope to be built in Australia, South Africa (Update 2)

A long-running joust to host a radio telescope that would give mankind its farthest peek into the Universe ended on Friday with a Solomon-like judgement to split the site between Australia and South Africa.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer

Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. Or how about transferring a typical 2-hour, 8-gigabyte DVD movie ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Scientists announce coalition to develop the world's cleanest passenger locomotive

Plans to create the world's first carbon-neutral higher-speed locomotive were announced today by the Coalition for Sustainable Rail (CSR), a collaboration of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (IonE) ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Revolutionary technology enables objects to know how they are being touched (w/ Video)

A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a chair that adjusts room lighting based on recognizing if a user is ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The carriers of memory

Almost 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, public opinion about war in many of the countries that fought appears to have shifted completely. Historian Jay Winter explains how poetry, art and film ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Solar Probe Plus: NASA solar study mission moves to next design stage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two-thousand-degree temperatures, supersonic solar particles, intense radiation – all of this awaits NASA’s Solar Probe Plus during an unprecedented close-up study of the sun.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Revealed in accurate detail, the underground world of plants

Plant and computer scientists can now study the underground world of plants with more accuracy and clarity. The revolutionary technique will improve our chances of breeding better crop varieties and increasing ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find extensive RNA editing in human transcriptome

In a new study published online in Nature Biotechnology, researchers from BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, reported the evidence of extensive RNA editing in a human cell line by analysis of RNA-seq data, demons ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The butterfly effect in nanotech medical diagnostics

Tiny metallic nanoparticles that shimmer in the light like the scales on a butterfly's wing are set to become the color-change components of a revolutionary new approach to point-of-care medical diagnostics, according to ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

UT biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy green electricity

Barry D. Bruce, professor of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is turning the term "power plant" on its head. The biochemist and a team of researchers have developed ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast


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