Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting the compound ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 9, 2009
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Sales of electronic book readers are booming, companies are jostling for a share of the fledgling market and Amazon's going global with the Kindle.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 8, 2009
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
Internet
Sep 17, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Asus has demonstrated a prototype of an e-book reader it is developing. Unlike its competitors, the device resembles a normal book, having two touch screens that will fold up.
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Book of Kells and similarly illustrated manuscripts of seventh- and eighth-century England and Ireland are known for their entrancingly intricate artwork -- geometric designs so precise that in some places ...
Other
Sep 2, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lee Smolin, author of the bestselling science book The Trouble with Physics and a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, writes exclusively ...
General Physics
Jun 4, 2009
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Amazon.com is widely expected to lift the wraps on a new large-screen Kindle device this week, which could be the first in a line of electronic reading devices geared toward newspapers and textbooks.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 4, 2009
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(AP) -- National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World.
Internet
Apr 21, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At CeBit 2009, Asus has revealed an array of Eee PC products, one being a touchscreen Flipbook PC. It can be used as a laptop, an e-book reader or a multimedia machine for watching movies, and listening to ...
Modern microscopy technology has allowed two scorpion biologists, Carsten Kamenz of the Humboldt University in Berlin and Lorenzo Prendini of the American Museum of Natural History, to study and document what is nearly invisible. ...
Jan 12, 2009
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