Astronauts Swab the Deck
If you saw a mushroom growing in your bathroom, you'd probably bring out the heavy artillery. - Mr. Clean, astride a Howitzer
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 2009
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Semantic web promises a smarter electricity grid
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on people’s homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralised plants. A new semantic web ...
Engineering
Feb 9, 2009
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Herschel and Planck missions ready to move to launch site
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s Herschel and Planck missions that will study the formation of stars and galaxies and the relic radiation from the Big Bang, respectively, have successfully completed their test campaigns in Europe. ...
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 2009
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Nanocomposite material provides photonic switching
(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrated photonic devices represent the wave of future technology. These devices will be extremely small, making use of photons on the nanoscale, and (hopefully) be very efficient in terms of power use. ...
Batteries get a (nano)boost
Need to store electricity more efficiently? Put it behind bars. That's essentially the finding of a team of Rice University researchers who have created hybrid carbon nanotube metal oxide arrays as electrode material that ...
Nanophysics
Feb 9, 2009
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Tailor-made recombinant proteins in mammals
A new way to direct chemical modifications to specific sites on recombinant proteins - including the monoclonal antibodies so important in the pharmaceutical industry - has been developed by Carolyn Bertozzi and her colleagues ...
Feb 9, 2009
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James Webb space telescope's actual 'spine' now being built
Scientists and engineers who have been working on the James Webb Space Telescope mission for years are getting very excited, because some of the actual pieces that will fly aboard the Webb telescope are now being built. One ...
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 2009
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Project uses cell phones as computers in the classroom
Educational software for cell phones, a suite of tools developed at the University of Michigan, is being used to turn smart phones into personal computers for students in two Texas classrooms.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 9, 2009
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Scientists develop revolutionary microchip that uses 30 times less energy
Leaving your mobile phone charger at home when you go for a two week long vacation may just be the norm one day as scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Rice University, United States, have successfully ...
Engineering
Feb 9, 2009
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Carbon nanotube avalanche process nearly doubles current
(PhysOrg.com) -- By pushing carbon nanotubes close to their breaking point, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a remarkable increase in the current-carrying capacity of the nanotubes, well beyond ...
Nanophysics
Feb 9, 2009
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