If the approaching summer has you calling for an air-conditioning repair, you'll have a personal experience with one of the world's most successful global environmental efforts.
Environment
Apr 4, 2012
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Extraordinarily cold temperatures in the winter of 2010/2011 caused the most massive destruction of the ozone layer above the Arctic so far: The mechanisms leading to the first ozone hole above the North Pole were studied ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2012
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Google's Android software is best known for powering smartphones, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt sees a future where it could also help devices communicate at home.
Software
Jan 11, 2012
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South Korea's LG Electronics, a leader in smart appliances, has hit on a solution to a common frustration -- how to chill canned or bottled drinks in less than half an hour.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 9, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Insulation panels that are both thin and effective are expensive. At present these high-end products are built into energy-saving refrigerators. Innovative components and production techniques are now set ...
Engineering
Dec 2, 2011
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So your TV show's over. You pick up the remote and press the button. Everything's off, right?
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 13, 2011
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When doctors want their patients asleep during surgery they gently turn the gas tap. But Anaesthetic gasses have a global warming potential as high as a refrigerant that is on its way to being banned in the EU. Yet there ...
Environment
Dec 3, 2010
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A new type of heat pump being developed at Purdue University could allow residents in cold climates to cut their heating bills in half.
Engineering
Jul 7, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Supermarket lamb curry ready-made meals eaten in the UK amount to an annual carbon footprint equivalent to 5,500 car trips around the world or 140 million car miles.
Environment
May 17, 2010
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Thursday unveiled a hi-tech alternative to the fridge magnet -- a refrigerator with Internet access that can display family photos or recipes on a screen.
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 4, 2010
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