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- Superconductor
- A material that has little resistance to the flow of electricity. Traditional superconductors operate at absolute zero (-459.67 degrees Fahrenheit or -273.15 degrees Celsius). Experiments in the 1980s...
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- Fish-like sensors for underwater robots
- Today, both submarine and surface ships use sonar for navigation. But sonar and other vision systems face various limitations. So why not imitating fish? For millions of years, fish have relied on "a row of specialized sensory organs along the sides of their bodies, called the lateral line" to avoid...
- Tags: Defense &, Security, Robotics, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- The ATLAS 830-ton magnet system is up
- ATLAS is a particle physics experiment which has been designed to analyze data gathered from CERNs Large Hadron Collider LHC scheduled to start its activity in November 2007. One of the components of the ATLAS detector is its huge magnet system. According to CERN, the worlds largest superconducting magnet has...
- Tags: ATLAS Detector, Atlas, Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- Detecting single photons
- What do you do when you need to transmit a signal over a long distance, from Saturn, say, and you're low on power? Until now, you turned the bandwidth way down, but new single-photon detectors could change that. Technology Review has an interview with Karl Berggren, an electrical engineering...
- Tags: detector, photon
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
- 16 candles for first Internet worm
- 16 candles for first Internet wormInternet not WWWJust wanted to make a correction. The Internet and the World Wide Web are two different things. The Internet did not "become" the World Wide Web, or WWW. There are still other services out there other than web pages WWW...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, WWW, Internet, computer, Internet worm
- Discussion threads 2004-11-03
- Plastic magnet breaks the mold
- Plastic magnet breaks the moldtetracyanoquinodimethaneSay that three times fast after a bucket of margaritas.Can we get that in a superconductor model?I'm still waiting for a viable room-temperature superconductor. What happened to all the superconductor research that we had only a few years ago?just try...Try typing 3 times real fast without...
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- Discussion threads 2004-09-01
- Transport Giant demo (Windows)
- This is the year 1850. It's an age of radical change and new departures. The era of mass production and mass transportation has just begun. The resourceful entrepreneur has plenty of opportunities. It's a time to build empires with just a little capital and a clever business idea. New manufacturing...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, JoWood Productions, Manufacturing Plant, Transportation
- Software downloads 2004-06-09
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