DailyTech – Quantenna Wi-Fi Chipset Offers 1 Gbps Speed Highly integrated chip promises fast speed and mesh networking Integration of the chipsets allows them to provide concurrent dual mode and a power amplifier to deliver content like real-time video on the 5 GHz band and legacy data on the more crowded 2.4 GHz band. The [...]
DailyTech – New Paper Is 500 Times Stronger Than Steel, 10 Times Lighter New nanotube paper is expected to set the mark as the world’s strongest material by the year’s end, to be used in aircraft The new paper is composed of intertwined carbon nanotubes. Thanks to nanotubes’ excellent flexibility, it can bend like normal [...]
DailyTech – World’s Most Advanced Microscope Unveiled The electron microscope is a very precise instrument that uses a beam of electrons to examine objects on a fine scale. Some electron microscopes can magnify specimens as much as 2 million times. McMaster University has unveiled the world’s most advanced microscope that is capable of even finer [...]
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Enceladus up close – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Introducing the Windows 7 UI First up was the new Windows 7 desktop. The new desktop includes a thicker taskbar, improved system tray and no sidebar. The orb on the start menu also glistens after hover over… Click the source for the article and more pictures.
Ad Blames Illegal Immigrants for Global Warming (Video) : Planetsave Rather than recommending that Americans cut back on their excessive consumer lifestyle, an anti-immigration group has released an advertisement touting controversial research that has claimed immigrants’ carbon footprints quadruple in size after moving to the US.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New minerals point to wetter Mars A Nasa space probe has discovered a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars. The find suggests liquid water remained on Mars’ surface a billion years later than scientists had previously thought.
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DailyTech – Robot Capable of Doing Chores Developed in Japan Toyota Motor Corp. and the University of Tokyo have jointly developed a prototype robot named “AR” capable of handling household chores according to The Mainichi Daily News. In a demonstration for reporters the robot was able to clean up rooms, put away dishes from a [...]
DailyTech – U.S. Beats Britain to Fusion Super Steel New steel from Oak Ridge National Laboratory is cheaper and stronger than past steel, likely to be used in ITER fusion reactor The new steel was developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL. The ORNL [...]
DailyTech – Solar Power Reaches a Magical Milestone — 25% Efficiency A long awaited solar power milestone for unconcentrated silicon PV cells has been reached, thanks to steady improvement and research
DailyTech – One Lightbulb Project Hopes to Launch in 2010 Project hopes to send enough solar power from space to a ground station to illuminate one lightbulb Solar power is great in that it can generate virtually free power from the energy of the sun. The catch is that existing solar power equipment isn’t particularly [...]
DailyTech – Scientists Wipe Mice Memories, Forgetting the Past Could Be a Pill Away With new medicine you may soon be able to choose to wipe your memories The approach targets a specific chemical in the brain. This chemical, a protein, plays a crucial role in the formation of memories. When recalling a specific painful [...]
DailyTech – Reactor Computer Uses Liquid Submersion Cooling
