27/11/2014

EU Parliament votes to break up Google

The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly for the break-up of Google Thursday in a largely symbolic vote that nevertheless cast another blow in the four-year standoff between Brussels and the US Internet giant.

Huge sunspots and their magnetic structure observed by Hinode

In the latter half of October, huge sunspots were observed on the surface of the Sun. These sunspots appeared at the east limb of the Sun on Oct. 16, and moved to the west as the Sun rotated. They rotated out of view after ...

Questions of continental crust

Geological processes shape the planet Earth and are in many ways essential to our planet's habitability for life. One important geological process is plate tectonics – the drifting, colliding and general movement of continental ...

Smart data increases the efficiency of wind farms

Siemens monitors thousands of wind power plants around the world to operate them as efficiently as possible. The company recently opened a remote diagnostics center in Brande, Denmark, where sensor data from all the plants ...

Researchers develop multilevel memory for consumer electronics

Researchers at AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre, and the School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, have developed a solution to increase the speed interaction between processor and ...

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