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The state of California has taken a massive step in the direction of energy consumption. Their first attempt is to impose a standard for battery chargers. If you have any kind of cellphone, portable game player, or laptop, these electronics have been labeled as “Energy Vampires”. This is due to the charger that comes along [...]

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A new technology, co-developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and made by Nexans Superconductors, is being used on a power plant for the first time. This technology protects the grid and ensures the constant flow of electricity at the Boxberg power plant of Vattenfall. This is possible because of superconductors. After being installed, they limit [...]

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If you think your iPods are small but can hold a lot of memory, then you haven’t seen anything yet. Scientists have been able to create a working magnetic data storage unit, which measures to be exactly 4 by 16 nanometers. while other devices require half a billion atoms to store each byte this device can [...]

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The laboratory at Rice University has found a way to turn carbon fiber into graphene quantum dots. These dots are tiny specks of matter with properties  that are supposed to be extremely useful for electronics, optical, and bio medical applications. Discovered in the 1980′s, quantum dots are semi-conductors, that have a shape and size dependent band gap, the size [...]

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Ever wondered what a single virus looked liked? I’m not into physics and I can say that even I have wondered what it looks like. Its something we’ve all thought of at least once. What do viruses look like exactly? Well believe it or not you don’t have to have a Ph.D. in physics to [...]

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Scientists have used a gathering of x-rays to recreate the conditions in aging stars, also commonly known as white dwarfs.  Astronomers and researchers heated a sample of gas to over 17,00o degrees Fahrenheit.  This was able to replicate the surface of white dwarfs.  This was very exciting and useful to astronomers, Don Winget said “As [...]

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NASA’s Mars’ rover has recently found strong evidence that liquid water once existed on the early life of this planet.  The element they found is a vein of gypsum.  Gypsum is a mineral formed only in the presence of water.  Although scientists have received samples before that gave evidence to water on Mars, it has [...]

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Scientists in Germany have been successful in building a device that can make an object invisible to sound waves. There have been other “invisibility cloaks” but those were electromagnetic devices and this one might be better than those. The German scientists made this by drilling holes in a piece of PVC and then filling the [...]

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People have always said that X-rays and other tests that emit radiation are dangerous. But physicists are now saying that patients shouldn’t say no to them. They say that because the benefits of these tests far outweigh the risks. Medical imaging procedures have such a low amount of radiation that it is undetectable and might not [...]

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