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Scientists Propose Thermal Memory to Store Data

Physics / Physics

12 hours ago | 4.3 / 5 after 4 votes | 4

Most computers today store memory electronically, by maintaining a certain voltage. In contrast, a new kind of memory that stores data thermally, by maintaining temperature, is being investigated by researchers Lei Wang of ...

Researchers see exotic force for first time

Physics / Physics

12 hours ago | 4.9 / 5 after 15 votes | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers have measured a long-theorized force that operates at distances so tiny they’re measured in billionths of a meter, which may have important applications in ...

NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery

Space & Earth science / Space Exploration

8 hours ago | 4.7 / 5 after 7 votes | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that ...

Martian rock arrangement not alien handiwork

Space & Earth science / Space Exploration

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At first, figuring out how pebble-sized rocks organize themselves in evenly-spaced patterns in sand seemed simple and even intuitive. But once Andrew Leier, an assistant geoscience professor at the U of C, started observing, ...

Half-baked asteroids have Earth-like crust

Space & Earth science / Earth Sciences

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Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space, and scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts. But two newly discovered ...

Engineers develop new power line de-icing system

Technology / Engineering

9 hours ago | 5 / 5 after 1 vote | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth engineering professor and entrepreneur Victor Petrenko—along with his colleagues at Dartmouth and at Ice Engineering LLC in Lebanon, N.H.—have invented a way to cheaply and effectively ...

Tilting at wind farms

Technology / Engineering

15 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 after 4 votes | 2

Heavy Pyridine Crystallizes Differently

General Science / Chemistry

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You can look -- but don't touch

General Science / Other

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Lost in translation: Perfectionist protein-maker trashes errors

General Science / Biology

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P2P traffic control

Technology / Engineering

16 hours ago | 4 / 5 after 2 votes | 1

Study: Excessive use of antiviral drugs could aid deadly flu

Medicine & Health / Research

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Let's see more of these technological innovations in '09

Technology / Hi Tech

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Scientists unravel structure of key breast cancer target enzyme

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Search website offers a visual alternative

Technology / Internet

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