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First White Spaces Network Brings Broadband Internet to Rural America

For the first time in the U.S., unused TV broadcast channels freed up by the transition to digital TV are being used to wirelessly deliver high-speed Internet connectivity to business, education and community users. These ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | 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

Researchers find new properties of the carbon material graphene

Graphene has caused a lot of excitement among scientists since the extremely strong and thin carbon material was discovered in 2004. Just one atom thick, the honeycomb-shaped material has several remarkable ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Rock Vibe' brings electronic music game to blind

Bridging a divide between sighted and blind gamers, University of California, Santa Cruz graduate Rupa Dhillon has created a version of the musical rhythm "Rock Band" game that everyone can play.

Technology / Software

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

North Carolina becomes home of White Spaces network

(PhysOrg.com) -- America’s first commercial “TV White Spaces Network” was launched this week in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. Wilmington, as the first U.S. city to shift from ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Fermi telescope explores new energy extremes

(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

AT&T's great wireless war

Think of AT&T Inc.'s $39 billion attempted takeover of German-owned T-Mobile USA as a long, multi-front war, the ultimate test of business, legal and political strategy.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Verizon pays $3.6 bn to buy spectrum from cable firms

US cellphone giant Verizon Wireless said Friday it will pay $3.6 billion to buy wireless spectrum from three leading cable providers which are bowing out of plans to plunge into the cellphone business.

Technology / Telecom

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

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

NASA's NPP satellite acquires first VIIRS image

The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, NPP, acquired its first measurements on Nov. 21, 2011. This high-resolution image is of a broad swath of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Fertility chip' determines concentration and mobility of semen

Loes Segerink, a researcher at University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, has developed a “fertility chip” that can accurately count sperm and measure their motility. The chip ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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