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Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

October 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 6

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by ...


This is your grid on brains

October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that ...


New Sensor Could Help Avert Pipeline Failures

October 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Colorado School of Mines (CSM) have developed a prototype sensor that quickly detects very small amounts of hydrogen accumulation ...


Writing patterns, logos and lettering in light

October 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Logos and lettering can be written in light using freeform lenses. But how does the surface of the lens have to be structured in order to focus the light in the shape of a specific pattern? ...


Honda Introduces All-New Insight Dedicated Hybrid Concept Vehicle at Paris Motor Show

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Honda Motor presented the concept model of its all-new Insight dedicated hybrid vehicle scheduled to be introduced in 2009, at the 2008 Paris Motor Show.


An 'electric' future for Formula 1 gearboxes?

October 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Bristol University student, Niall Oswald, has won the e2v Award for the Best Electronic Engineering Student at the 2008 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Awards for his final-year research project, ...


Pterodactyl-inspired robot to master air, ground and sea

October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students Andy Gedeon and Brian Roberts have reached back in time 115 million ...


An a-maize-ing path out of poverty

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Across Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa, processing the corn harvest is labor intensive: Families and friends gather to spend a day or two filling bags with the dried cobs, beating then to ...


Baked Slug: New Method to Test Fireproofing Material

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

In a high-temperature blaze, how well does a fireproofing material shield a building’s important steel structures from heat? Answering this question has been surprisingly difficult, but it is important information ...


Portable imaging system will help maximize public health response to natural disasters

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Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a low-cost, high-resolution imaging system that can be attached to a helicopter to create a complete and detailed picture of an area ...


Boston University partners in NSF challenge to create wireless network using visible light

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Boston University's College of Engineering is a partner launching a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead ...