News tagged with transmitters

Brighter, smaller probes to uncover the secret lives of proteins

(Phys.org) -- Imagine tracking a deer through a forest by clipping a radio transmitter to its ear and monitoring the deer’s location remotely. Now imagine that transmitter is the size of a house, and ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Analyzing energy potential

Sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules all feature low power consumption. All it takes is a few milliwatts to run them. Energy from the environment - from sources such as light or vibrations - may be enough to meet these ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Freeing loggerhead turtles comes at a price

When loggerhead turtles are accidentally captured by humans, a recovery process follows, the complexity of which varies according to the turtle's injuries. Spanish researchers have analysed the process of ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Whales' signals reveal retreat from ill-fated oil rig

A technique that monitors whales through the sounds they emit has answered a key issue raised by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago this month.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Paint and bombs try to save ships from Titanic fate

We've painted them, tagged them, bombed them, monitored them with radar and watched them from space -- but icebergs like the one that sank the Titanic are still a threat to ships today.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A boom in smarter baby monitors

The cry has been heard: After 20 years with little change to baby monitoring devices, new designs premiered in January at the Consumer Electronics Show promising Wi-Fi connectivity and high-definition video that streams live ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 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

Rare, once-royal turtle to be tracked in Cambodia

(AP) -- One of the world's most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Graphene offers protection from intense laser pulses

Researchers from Singapore and the UK have jointly announced a new benchmark in broadband, non-linear optical-limiting behavior using single-sheet graphene dispersions in a variety of heavy-atom solvents and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Killer whales migrate, study finds, but why?

Some killer whales, a study published Wednesday shows for the first time, wander nearly 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) from Antarctica's Southern Ocean into tropical waters -- but not to feed or breed.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Near-extinct Philippine eagle shot dead

An endangered Philippine eagle, one of only a few hundred left in the world, has been shot dead, a conservation group that had previously rescued the bird said Friday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Piezoelectric film used for new remote that twists and bends

(PhysOrg.com) -- Murata Manufacturing Co. is using high-transparency organic piezoelectric film for its two new devices, a remote control that works by bending and twisting, and a touch-pressure pad that connects ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Swedish daycare to test GPS for tracking kids

A daycare centre in the southern Swedish city of Malmoe said Wednesday it planned to test GPS devices for tracking children when they are out on excursions.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review: Sifteo a fun but pricey new way to play

I am sliding three little cubes around my desk. My goal is to help a penguin named Booker collect a bunch of eggs and avoid being eaten by a horrific creature named Owlbear. It's a lot of fun.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Colugos glide to save time, not energy

Gripping tightly to a tree trunk, at first sight a colugo might be mistaken for a lemur. However, when this animal leaps it launches into a graceful glide, spreading wide the enormous membrane that spans its legs and tail ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast