News tagged with world record
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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Modern men are wimps, according to new book
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new book claims even modern athletes could not run as fast, jump as high, or have been nearly as strong as our predecessors.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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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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Large Hadron Collider sets new power world record
(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the ...
Nov 30, 2009 |
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World record: The strongest magnetic fields created
On June 22, 2011, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf set a new world record for magnetic fields with 91.4 teslas. To reach this record, Sergei Zherlitsyn and his colleagues at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dresden ...
Jun 28, 2011 |
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25 Tesla, world-record 'split magnet' makes its debut
A custom-built, $2.5 million "split magnet" system with the potential to revolutionize scientific research in a variety of fields has made its debut at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest
(AP) -- First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire's Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 26, 2010 |
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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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Team AMD FX sets Guiness record
(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has set the world record of fastest CPU with a speed frequency of 8.429 GHz, winning the company a place in the Guiness World Records. AMD’s yet-to-ship Bulldozer-based FX chips drew ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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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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Double solar world record
(PhysOrg.com) -- A world record double by UNSW solar cell researchers promises to make solar power more affordable, with world-beating new technology delivering substantial efficiency gains at minimal extra ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Tesla Roadster Goes 313 Miles on a Single Charge
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tesla is becoming synonymous with high performance electric cars. Indeed, the Tesla car company has been making efforts to create a brand of sports car that runs on electricity, and does so ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 09, 2009 |
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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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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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Toyota three-wheeler does 80.3 mph on compressed air
(PhysOrg.com) -- Toyota Industries intends to apply for a Guiness World record for the fastest car driven by a compressed-air engine, after its Ku:Rin, as the vehicle is called, reached 129.2km/h (80.3 mph)on ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 24, 2011 |
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