News tagged with world record

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

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

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

created Sep 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

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 ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 11

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

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

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

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (42) | comments 30 | with audio podcast weblog

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

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (18) | comments 1

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (28) | comments 14

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.

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (41) | comments 40 weblog

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 ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

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.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1