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Five-Dimensional DVD Could Hold Data of 30 Blu-ray Discs

(PhysOrg.com) -- While many people think that Blu-ray will replace DVDs in the near future, a new study shows that DVDs may still have a lot to offer. Researchers have designed a five-dimensional DVD that ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 14 weblog




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High-tech tools may help small grains breeders 'see' valuable plant traits faster

Two tools from industry are being applied to the small grains breeding program by a Texas AgriLife Research team to help identify valuable drought-resistance traits in wheat faster and less intrusively than ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Free-electron lasers reveal detailed architecture of proteins

(Phys.org) -- In the centennial year of Max von Laue’s discovery that X-ray diffraction can be used to unravel the atomic architecture of molecules, a new approach to the determination of high-resolution ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Astronomers probe 'evaporating' planet around nearby star with Hobby-Eberly telescope

(Phys.org) -- Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin and Wesleyan University have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at UT Austin’s McDonald Observatory to confirm that a Jupiter-size planet ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Seeing color traced back to genetic mutations

From the inside of our heads, it feels as if colors are intrinsic aspects of the outside world and our eyes are beautifully designed to see them. But we humans are merely sampling the possible ways of sensing the spectrum ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Watching an electron being born

Atomic processes take place on extremely short time scales. Measurements at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) can now visualize these processes.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Solar-panel-like retinal prosthesis could better restore sight to blind

(Phys.org) -- Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Feathers show their true colors

(Phys.org) -- For millennia birds have been prized, even hunted, for their beautiful plumage but what makes their feathers so colorful?

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Sun's crowning glory

(Phys.org) -- Those who experience a total solar eclipse are overwhelmed as they look at the circle of light that surrounds our Sun. Laypeople may find it enchanting, but researchers have been racking their ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

First instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope completed

After more than ten years of work by more than 200 engineers, the Mid InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), a camera so sensitive it could see a candle on one of Jupiter's moons, has been declared ready for delivery ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Rapid testing of food quality

Whether fruit, meat or cheese - the quality of food is not always as consumers would like it to be. But, in future, a spectrometer will allow them to gage the quality of food before they buy it. No bigger ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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