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Japanese Team Tokai wins the 3,021 km 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese Tokai University Solar Car Team has won the Veolia World Solar Challenge, a 3,021 kilometer race between tiny cars relying on mostly solar power. Running between Darwin, a remote ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 32 | with audio podcast report

Japanese car wins World Solar Challenge in Australia (w/ Video)

A Japanese sun-powered car won the World Solar Challenge on Wednesday after averaging speeds of more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) per hour in a four-day race through Australia's desert Outback.

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 2




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Fukushima: Reflections six months on

When the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on March 11, 2011, the world witnessed the largest nuclear incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. In a special Fukushima ...

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created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Fermilab experiment weighs in on neutrino mystery

Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (June 24) the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

A step closer to solving one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Where did all the matter in the universe come from? This is one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics and exciting results released on 15 June 2011 from the international T2K neutrino ...

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created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Japan's seismologists blinded to March 11 quake: journal

Japan's seismologists were so entrenched in outdated beliefs about seismic hazard that they became blinkered to the risk of the March 11 mega-quake, a commentary in a top science journal charged on Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Tokyo at risk from massive aftershock, expert says (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tokyo may be at serious risk from a massive aftershock and associated tsunami as a result of the devastating March 11 earthquake near Sendai, Japan, according to UC Davis seismologist John Rundle.

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created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Quake is 5th biggest, but Japan best prepared

(AP) -- Take the world's most earthquake-prepared country, jolt it with one of the biggest quakes in history and add a devastating tsunami minutes later. In the classic battle of Man vs. Nature, Nature won again.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The First T2K Neutrino Event Observed At Super-Kamiokande

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multinational T2K collaboration announced today that they had made the first detection of a neutrino which had travelled all the way under Japan from their ...

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created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers Detect First Neutrino Events at T2K Facilities in Japan

(PhysOrg.com) -- Louisiana State University researchers, including graduate and undergraduate students, have been working for several years on an experiment in Japan called T2K, short for Tokai to Kamioka ...

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created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles; neutrinos.

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created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3

First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam ...

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 3


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