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Pentagon successfully tests hypersonic flying bomb

The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 180

Folding light: Wrinkles and twists boost power from solar panels

Taking their cue from the humble leaf, researchers have used microscopic folds on the surface of photovoltaic material to significantly increase the power output of flexible, low-cost solar cells.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Study finds unexplored link between airlines' profitability and their accident rates

(PhysOrg.com) -- Airlines' accident risk is highest when they are performing very close to their financial targets, according to a study by a professor in BYU’s Marriott School of Management.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover promising hydrogen storage material

(PhysOrg.com) -- If hydrogen is to ever to serve as an onboard energy carrier for the transportation industry, a material will be needed that can store large amounts of hydrogen at ambient temperature and ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 22 | with audio podcast feature

Greenhouse gases soar; no signs warming is slowed

(AP) -- Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are building up so high, so fast, that some scientists now think the world can no longer limit global warming to the level world leaders have agreed upon as safe.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 61

Limited options for meeting 2C warming target, warn climate experts

We will only achieve the target of limiting global warming to safe levels if carbon dioxide emissions begin to fall within the next two decades and eventually decrease to zero. That is the stark message from research by an ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

We are not only eating 'materials', we are also eating 'information'

In a new study, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing university present a rather striking finding that plant miRNAs could make into the host blood and tissues via the route of food-intake. Moreover, once inside the host, they ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Italian physicist behind 'faster-than-light' test resigns

An Italian physicist at the head of a team that made a cautious but hugely controversial claim that neutrinos may travel faster than the speed of light resigned on Friday following calls for his dismissal.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (17) | comments 34

US grabs lead over China in clean energy race

The United States has regained the lead in the clean energy race, investing $48 billion last year to surpass China, which held the world's top spending spot since 2009, said a study Wednesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 21

New holographic radar system can track high speed shells

(PhysOrg.com) -- The British firm Cambridge Consultants has announced the successful test of its new 3D holographic radar system that can track fired shells traveling up to 1000 miles per hour. The new system ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Porous crystals for natural gas storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Porous crystals called metal-organic frameworks, with their nanoscopic pores and incredibly high surface areas, are excellent materials for natural gas storage. But with millions of different ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microbiologists identify two molecules that kill lymphoma cells in mice

Researchers at the University of Southern California have identified two molecules that may be more effective cancer killers than are currently available on the market.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study identifies a key molecular switch for telomere extension by telomerase

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine describe for the first time a key target of DNA damage checkpoint enzymes that must be chemically modified to enable stable maintenance of chromosome ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists uncover new role for gene in maintaining steady weight

Against the backdrop of the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have made an important new discovery regarding a specific gene that plays ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Intel backs ultra-light laptops with new age controls

US chip giant Intel on Monday heralded a coming wave of affordable high-powered, thin laptops that could double as tablet computers and be controlled by gestures or spoken commands.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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

Target

A Target is any entity whose existence is the object of goal accomplishment by another entity's intended action results.

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Assorted Media (TV,Music and Literature)

Computing

Military or paramilitary

Places

People

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