News tagged with world record
Scientists announce coalition to develop the world's cleanest passenger locomotive
Plans to create the world's first carbon-neutral higher-speed locomotive were announced today by the Coalition for Sustainable Rail (CSR), a collaboration of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (IonE) ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 22, 2012 |
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Researchers pioneer molecular catalyser
Scientists in Sweden have developed a molecular catalyser with the ability to quickly oxidise water to oxygen. Presented in the journal Nature Chemistry, the results are a significant contribution to the future ...
Apr 16, 2012 |
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How Usain Bolt can run faster -- effortlessly
Usain Bolt can achieve faster running times with no extra effort on his part or improvement to his fitness, according to a study published today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the Americ ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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In tech first, US puts entire 1940 census online
The National Archives opened a treasure trove to genealogists and historians on Monday, releasing the 1940 national census in its entirety -- and doing so for the first time online.
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Student researchers help discover world's smallest frog
When two Cornell undergraduates and a recent graduate went on a field research trip to Papua New Guinea in 2008, little did they know it would lead to entries in the Guinness Book of World Records and a groundbreaking ...
Mar 30, 2012 |
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European grasslands challenge rainforests as the most species-rich spaces on Earth
The city of Manila holds the human world record for the most densely populated space and now an international team of ecologists are seeking the natural equivalent, the most species rich area on earth. The team's findings, ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Skydiver aims to jump from 23 miles, go supersonic (Update 2)
"Fearless Felix" Baumgartner has jumped 2,500 times from planes and helicopters, as well as some of the highest landmarks and skyscrapers on the planet - the Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2012 |
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World record find: Oldest evidence of lobsters living together discovered in gas shale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Discovering direct animal behavior from the fossil record can only be done in exceptional circumstances. Such circumstances exist in the German Posidonia gas shale from the Jurassic period ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 08, 2012 |
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4G speed record smashed with 1.4 Gigabits-per-second mobile call
Nokia Siemens Networks boosts data rate for LTE-Advanced on 100 MHz spectrum, using commercial Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station.
Feb 28, 2012 |
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New record for world's smallest atomic valentine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Shattering their own world record from two years ago, scientists from the University of Birmingham in the UK have created the unofficial world’s smallest atomic valentine. Their tiny heart ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else
If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Guinness World Record: DESY's X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie
It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg, Germany.
Jan 25, 2012 |
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CMS in 2011: A mountain of particle collision data
Datasets are the currency of physics. As data accumulate, measurement uncertainty ranges shrink, increasing the potential for discoveries and making non-observations more stringent, with more far-reaching ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Robotic boats to travel across Pacific Ocean
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, November 17, four unmanned Wave Gliders left the coast of San Francisco and began a 300-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. The vehicles, which are self-propelled and remotely ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Creation of the largest human-designed protein boosts protein engineering efforts
(PhysOrg.com) -- If Guinness World Records had a category for the largest human-designed protein, then a team of Vanderbilt chemists would have just claimed it.
Nov 15, 2011 |
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