News tagged with world record
Solar inverters: Losses are cut in half
A switching trick makes it possible to cut the losses of a series-production inverter in half and increase the efficiency from 96 to 98 percent. The HERIC-topology makes it possible to achieve a world-record ...
May 26, 2011 |
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U of T food engineers help set world record
Graduate students from the University of Toronto's Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry’s food engineering laboratory helped to set the Guinness Book of World Record May 10 for largest ...
May 12, 2011 |
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University of Maryland student engineers to test human-powered helicopter (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a step toward winning the Sikorsky Prize, a team of A. James Clark School of Engineering students will attempt for the first time to test-fly their human-powered helicopter, called Gamera. ...
May 05, 2011 |
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Large Hadron Collider sets world record beam intensity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Around midnight this night CERN's Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a hadron collider when it collided beams with a luminosity of 4.67 x 1032cm-2s-1. This exceeds the previous world ...
Apr 22, 2011 |
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14 quantum bits: Physicists go beyond the limits of what is currently possible in quantum computation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum physicists from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) have set another world record: They have achieved controlled entanglement of 14 quantum bits (qubits) and, thus, realized the ...
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Sharpest microscope tip lands researchers in Guinness Book of World Records
A very tiny, very sharp object has put Canadian researchers at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and University of Alberta into the Guinness Book of World Records.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Tree-planting world record set in Philippines
Philippine environmentalists have set a world record for the most trees planted simultaneously, kickstarting an enormous reforesteration programme, organisers said Thursday.
Feb 24, 2011 |
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World's fastest solar car smashed Guinness World Record (w/ Video)
UNSW’s Sunswift solar car has lived up to its name, smashing a Guinness World Record to become the world's fastest solar vehicle.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 07, 2011 |
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When will runners and swimmers reach their physical limit?
Running and swimming records are broken again and again at almost every international athletics event. But, can human performance continue to improve indefinitely? Will runners continue to accelerate off the starting blocks ...
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Mercury busts charts; 2010 in top 3 hottest years
(AP) -- A scorching summer that killed thousands in Russia and exceptionally mild winters in the Arctic were among extreme weather events that have put 2010 on track to be one of the three hottest years on record, U.N. experts ...
Dec 02, 2010 |
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UN weather agency: 2010 among 3 hottest years
(AP) -- The U.N. weather agency says 2010 is "almost certain" to rank among the three hottest years on record.
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Ohio zoo acquires daughter of late longest snake
(AP) -- An Ohio zoo says a new resident has big snakeskin shoes to fill.
Nov 25, 2010 |
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World's smallest animation character shot with smartphone camera and microscope (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The title character in a 90-second film called "Dot" has broken the Guinness World Record for being the smallest stop-motion animation character in a film. The 9-mm-tall Dot (whose head is ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Japan seeks Guinness record listing for space probe
Japan's space agency has applied for a Guinness World Records listing after its Hayabusa space probe returned from a seven-year journey to an ancient asteroid, an official said Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Electric vehicle travels record-breaking 623 miles on a single charge
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japan Electric Vehicle Club broke its own Guinness World Record last weekend by driving an electric vehicle for a distance of 623.76 miles (1,003 kilometers) without recharging. The new ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 27, 2010 |
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