 Make Ethanol in Your Own Backyard 6 hours ago | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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A Silicon Valley start-up called E-Fuel is showing exactly how ethanol can live up to its name as "the people´s fuel." The company recently announced that it will soon start selling a home ethanol system, ... | |
 Powering up IT for professional learning 9 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The study and implementation of technology-enhanced professional learning has been fragmented. Now European researchers have linked such ‘islands’ of knowledge into a thriving, collaborative community. | |
 Flies' eyes could enhance robot vision 10 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Robots with flies' eyes could take advantage of the insect’s vision system to better locate the edges and boundaries of objects. This ability could help robots perform a variety of tasks more quickly and accurately ... | |
 New gas sensors for monitoring carbon dioxide sinks May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A novel gas sensor system makes it possible to monitor large areas cost-effectively the first time. The patented gas sensor is based on the principle of diffusion, according to which certain gases pass through ... | |
 Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness ... | |
 80-mph electric car to go on sale this summer in the US May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Green Vehicles, a company based in San Jose, California, has recently revealed that it will begin selling two lithium-ion-powered electric vehicles early this summer. The three-wheeled TRIAC is a highway-capable ... | |
 Professor studies what cars can learn from drivers' words May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Years ago, Stanford communication and sociology researcher Clifford Nass wondered why some people treated their computers as humans, instead of machines, a question that led him down a path of interesting ... | |
 Three-Story Structure Slammed in Magnitude 8 Earthquake on Shake Table May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Engineering researchers are subjecting a three-story structure resembling a parking garage to a sequence of earthquake "shake test" jolts as powerful as magnitude 8.0 as part of a series of seismic tests to ... | |
 Harnessing sunlight on the cheap May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 71 vote(s)
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For a project that could be on the very cutting edge of renewable energy, this one is actually decidedly low tech--and that's the point. | |
Braille converter bridges the information gap May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A free, e-mail-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping to bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy access to books, news articles ... | |
 Space is 'current frontier' for engineer working on next-gen wireless technologies May 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
Bhaskar Rao is a space explorer, though he is no astronaut. The electrical engineer from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering explores the “space frontier” that has opened up with the emergence of MIMO ... | |
 Contact Through Silver Particles in Ink May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Modern cars are full of sensors. The optimum quantity of air in the intake tract of a combustion engine is regulated by thermoelectric flow sensors, for instance. They measure which quantities of a gas or ... | |
 New cell-based sensors sniff out danger like bloodhounds May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A small, unmanned vehicle makes its way down the road ahead of a military convoy. Suddenly it stops and relays a warning to the convoy commander. The presence of a deadly improvised explosive device, or IED, ... | |
Berkeley Lab researchers propose a new breed of supercomputers May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power ... | |
Intel, Samsung, TSMC Reach Agreement for 450mm Wafer Manufacturing Transition May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics and TSMC today announced they have reached agreement on the need for industry-wide collaboration to target a transition to larger, 450mm-sized wafers starting in 2012. The transition to larger ... | |
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