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When it comes to multimedia, it looks like nothing is good enough. Well, we hope that Samsung's new line of plasma TVs will be able to satisfy your hunger for stunning graphics, in either 2D or 3D.
Samsung's plasma TVs come with diagonals ranging between 51" (class 51" is actually 50.73" or 121.7 cm) and 6... |
3 January 2012
09:44 GMT |
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A collaboration of experts in the United States says that neon lights and plasma TV produce a type of ionized plasma that can be used to treat potentially-contaminated water in the developing world.
The team carried out a series of tests that revealed the efficiency of such a treatment. Results showed that ionized ... |
15 November 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Researchers in the United States were recently able to produce a new type of electrochemical cell, whose electrodes are made out of plasma, rather than conventional metals. The study was led by investigators at the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).
According to the research team, this result may be of tremendo... |
21 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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TVs are normally used as a means to tap into the wealth of multimedia channels available worldwide, but LG went one or two steps further when it built the PenTouch plasma line.That LG would release a new series of plasma TVs is definitely not shocking in and of itself, since this happens on a fairly regular basis.Wh... |
2 September 2011
06:25 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will soon launch a series of four rockets into Earth's ionosphere, a layer of the atmosphere that contains mysterious electric currents. Some of the these little-understood currents interfere with electrical signals coming from satellites. The exact nature ... |
15 July 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Panasonic is well known around the world as a purveyor of display solutions for both the consumer and enterprise market, and it is the latter that the newest product announcement on the company's part deals with.Once again, Panasonic has stepped forth to unleash more than one sort of product, those being projec... |
15 June 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Detecting the early onset of conditions such as heart diseases, diabetes and atherosclerosis is about to become a lot easier, thanks to investigation methods pioneered by an international group of scientists.The researchers were able to develop a technique of determining which persons are at risk of developing these ... |
30 May 2011
07:36 GMT |
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German researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPIEP) are currently in the process of developing plasma-based sanitizing technologies, which they say could bring the problem of hospital-acquired bacteria infections under control.Plasma is a state of matter consisting of electrically char... |
27 May 2011
04:51 GMT |
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One reason plasma displays haven't been able to actually turn into a stronger rival to LCDs is that the way they rendered the color black was imperfect, with color levels worsening as time went by, but Panasonic claims to have surpassed this issue at last.
When it comes to TVs and monitors, the LCD (liquid c... |
27 May 2011
02:50 GMT |
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An in-depth study of the activity going on on the surface of the Sun has revealed an interesting aspect of how powerful solar storms form. According to researchers, it would appear that giant bubbles of plasma, superheated at high temperatures, are responsible for fueling the events.Understanding the physics behind s... |
17 May 2011
10:08 GMT |
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In a new study, experts were finally able to determine the power source that is heating up that gas filaments spawned by the elliptical galaxy NGC 1275. This has been the focus of studies for quite some time now, but results thus far have been conflicting.Over years of study, astronomers have discovered that certain ... |
11 May 2011
04:46 GMT |
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NASA solar physicists say that the Sun exhibited another sign that it's heading for a solar maximum recently. On March 19, a massive eruption on its surface led to the release of a huge plasma tendril into its surroundings. This is the third time in just a couple of months a major solar event occurs. The phenome... |
24 March 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Samsung just grabbed most of the attention of the IT industry by launching a bunch of different product lines, and it seems that it has special plans for the plasma TV market, having prepared no less than 15 new models.Those end-users keeping track of things may have noticed that Samsung became especially active yes... |
17 March 2011
04:06 GMT |
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Although I am sure that nobody can deny the fact that plasma HDTVs offer a far better image quality when compared to LCD panels, these TVs have been held back by their imposing price tags, but this is one technology that isn't ready to kick the bucket just yet as recent reports show that sales of plasma TVs were... |
16 November 2010
05:08 GMT |
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Investigators from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility and the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak announce the creation of a new imaging technique that allows physicists to visualize alpha particles that ride Alfven waves inside nuclear fusion containment vessels. Like surfers riding waves to the shoreline, alpha particles produc... |
8 November 2010
07:03 GMT |
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Researchers are currently working on developing new types of breakthroughs in the field of computer simulations, given the potential these technologies have for furthering science. At this time, they believe they might have found a way to improve advanced laser experiments.One of the main problems plaguing investigat... |
23 August 2010
02:43 GMT |
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Today, August 10th, KDE e.V. proudly announced the release of the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation 4.5.0. The official announcement contains 3 separate announcements, for the Development Platform, Plasma Desktop and Netbook, and the Applications.The KDE Development Platform 4.5.0 comes with improved perfor... |
10 August 2010
10:11 GMT |
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Decades ago, investigators noticed that the Sun appeared to be operating in 11-year-old cycles. That is to say, episodes of intense activity on its surface alternated with periods in which solar storms and sunspots could barely be seen. Experts then began keeping track of these cycles, and they have been doing so eve... |
4 August 2010
03:36 GMT |
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All throughout Tuesday and Wednesday (August 3-4), skywatchers at the North Pole will get a real treat. Space weather experts say that the number and intensity of auroras that will appear during these two days will be unusually high for this period. This is due to the fact that a solar eruption took place late Sunday... |
3 August 2010
02:41 GMT |
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Fission reactors are capable of producing large amounts of energy using radioactive materials, but they also pose an incredibly danger to their surroundings and workers. Their byproducts are also very toxic, and incredibly difficult to handle, and so physicists have been working on developing technologies to replace ... |
28 July 2010
11:07 GMT |
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Any supplier of hardware enjoys it when it can claim to have a world's first-type of product on sale, or when it has a device that outdoes all competitors in a certain area. Panasonic thought it was time for it to make a pair of such claims, and used the 3D hype as a leverage to see it done. To be more specific,... |
21 July 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Even despite all the skepticism that naturally arises because of the bulky glasses, the 3D display mode is growing in popularity at a steady pace. Mostly, this is owed to the 3D films that debuted over the past half a year, as well as the 3D TV broadcasts that followed. Stereoscopic 3D gaming solutions, like 3D Visi... |
29 June 2010
05:27 GMT |
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Less than a week after experts at the American space agency released the first images snapped by the new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), they return to the spotlight with a new video of the Sun. This time, the most recently-launched NASA telescope imaged a huge solar eruption, and kept an eye on the ensuing “... |
29 April 2010
03:03 GMT |
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On Monday, April 26, officials from the Russian Federation and Italy announced the signing of a new cooperation agreement between the two nations, centered on the development and construction of a new tokamak. The advanced machinery will be designed by Italian investigators, and built on Russian soil. Scientists from... |
28 April 2010
18:11 GMT |
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Though liquid crystal displays are fairly popular on the mainstream market at present, Panasonic's Plasma display technology stands tall even now, especially thanks to the various large-screen TVs that it has spawned. In fact, the company has just recently unveiled its latest lineup, known as the VIERA VT25. The... |
24 April 2010
05:15 GMT |
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The gas giant Saturn is surrounded by a large, protective layer of magnetic fields, called a magnetosphere, which protects its surface from the effects of solar flares and cosmic rays. This atmospheric layer is filled with electrically charged particles called plasma, which are affected by both the planet and the man... |
15 April 2010
03:05 GMT |
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Without a doubt, galaxy clusters are the largest coherent structures in the known Universe. They are made up of hundreds of thousands of galaxies, all held together through the force of gravity. While it may be difficult to observe clusters at first, careful analysis of how seemingly-unrelated galaxies move soon hint... |
7 April 2010
05:38 GMT |
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A former NASA astronaut is proposing a daring way of going about exploring Mars. He is arguing that plasma technology should be employed for traveling to the Red Planet, and says that the technology to make all of this possible already exists. He adds that an electric engine using superheated plasma for thrust could ... |
6 March 2010
04:40 GMT |
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The first maintenance release of KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.4.0 was unleashed last evening, March 3rd, by the KDE developers. Dubbed Clara, KDE SC 4.4.1 is here to update various translations, fix a great number of bugs and improve the overall performance. KDE SC 4.4.1 is composed of the KDE Plasma Workspace... |
3 March 2010
04:26 GMT |
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The largest advantage that the International Space Station (ISS) has over any other scientific laboratory in the world is the fact that it can easily perform experiments under unique conditions. First and foremost, it's the only place where researchers can conduct experiments in microgravity. This opens up the w... |
28 January 2010
09:57 GMT |
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One of the most important goals in physics today is achieving nuclear fusion, the type of reaction that powers up the Sun. Rather than splitting atoms, this nuclear reaction actually merges the nuclei of deuterium and tritium atoms, producing helium and vast amounts of energy, However, designing a working nuclear fus... |
25 January 2010
04:47 GMT |
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In the near future, we may no longer experience the discomfort of having our teeth drilled into via a fast-spinning metal object. According to a scientific study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology, plasma jets could soon replace the action of the mechanical drills in obliterating ... |
20 January 2010
05:42 GMT |
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The Big Bang is at this point the most widely accepted theory on the beginning of the Universe. It states that everything around us, plus dark matter and dark energy, emerged from a singularity, a powerful event that took place about 13.7 billion years ago. While its outcome is largely known today, as in the galaxies... |
15 January 2010
19:31 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, the KDE community project announced the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming and highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.4. This development version brings improvements and bug fixes in various areas, especially for Nepomuk and Plasma. The KDE Software Compilation is compo... |
8 January 2010
10:17 GMT |
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3D, video-capable hardware, both consumer and professional, is still rather underrepresented, with full-HD, 3D monitors and TVs still rather few in number, or, at least, in a rather low variety. Panasonic seems to want to be at the forefront of the 3D industry and has announced that its Consumer Electronics Show exhi... |
7 January 2010
02:53 GMT |
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In a bid to gain a deeper understanding in the formation and operation of turbulent flows, physicists at the University of Warwick have made clever use of the Ulysses spacecraft, as well as of the fact that the Sun is still at its solar minimum. The result was the equivalent of a lab workbench more than 200 million m... |
12 December 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Last evening, the KDE community proudly launched the fourth maintenance version of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.3. Dubbed Cold, the brand-new KDE 4.3.4 software suite brings a couple of improvements to the Okular, Marble and KGpg applications, and bug fixes to packages such as Okteta, KTuberling, JuK and K... |
2 December 2009
03:47 GMT |
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Two new devices, created by German scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and Japan-based ADTEC Plasma Technology Ltd., show tremendous promise in fighting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), as well as other resilient bacteria. The two instruments are low-temperature pla... |
26 November 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Learning how to control a plasma flow is something that is absolutely essential in the field of nuclear-fusion research. At this point, physicists keep the stuff in place using magnetic confinement fields, but the method is worthless if the experts don't know what plasma can and cannot do, and also how it behave... |
3 November 2009
04:05 GMT |
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has recently awarded a $7-million research grant to a scientific group, made up of experts from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), for research related to advancing nuc... |
15 September 2009
06:34 GMT |
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While advocates of healthy eating look for options of substituting sodium in salt, nuclear physicists working on making nuclear fusion a reality are also looking for substitutes of their own. They have thus far discovered that sodium-like tungsten ions could successfully replace the troublesome element, and that they... |
11 September 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Taking their inspiration from nuclear fusion research, scientists at the Purdue University (PU) are taking future computer chip production methods to new levels, through a new class of nanolithography processes. For it, the experts need extremely thin beams of plasma, which are also a necessity in obtaining nuclear f... |
19 August 2009
09:57 GMT |
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When thinking of plasma, the first thing that comes to mind is temperature. A whole lot of it, in fact. Millions of degrees are required to turn gas into this state, and experts at the University of Southern California now want to use it on our teeth. They recently created a new plasma tool, which uses the matter to ... |
11 June 2009
03:43 GMT |
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The American space agency's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) twin observation spacecraft has allowed experts at NASA to observe a solar storm in 3D for the first time. This could bring about a new era of knowledge on how our star erupts, and what the underlying issues behind its coronal mass eje... |
29 April 2009
20:31 GMT |
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Designing the ultimate coating for plasma and LCD TVs is not exactly easy, but the performance of the entire device thoroughly depends on the ultra-thin layer of material. The next generation of television sets may, however, be made out of something totally out of the ordinary, namely coffee. The idea has come to res... |
2 March 2009
10:26 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider, the most intricate piece of technology our civilization has been able to come up with thus far, has proven once again that no matter how much effort goes into constructing it (20 years) and how much money it costs to build (roughly $9 billion), a large machine is not always the answer. Just... |
5 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Associate Administrator for Space Operations, William H. Gerstenmaier from NASA, and Dr. Franklin R. Chang Diaz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ad Astra, a rocket company based in Webster, Texas, signed their third Space Act Agreement one week ago (on December 8th 2008), which could result in the installmen... |
15 December 2008
08:52 GMT |
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A new research performed by a team of specialists led by Charles Chappell, research professor of physics and director of the Dyer Observatory at Vanderbilt University, collected and analyzed the data resulted from the observations of five different satellites. The data were related to the composition and behavior of ... |
13 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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We actually don’t know that many things about stars, despite the fact that there have been many attempts and numerous researches in the field. The only close star we have most access to, theoretically speaking, is the Sun. But we only know little about it as well, given the still limited technology we have, and... |
13 December 2008
07:35 GMT |
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Supermassive black holes, with a mass approximately a billion times that of our Sun, have been thought to reside at the very heart of the biggest galaxies, including our own. A recent computer simulation, corroborated with data obtained from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, indicated that one of these black holes gener... |
24 November 2008
10:47 GMT |
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