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France President Nicolas Sarkozy and the French government are determined to see the individual transportation system go green, as they invested 400 million Euros ($549 million) in this regard. This will allow for more than a decent start for car-making companies like Renault and Peugeot-Citroen.Following the announc... |
10 October 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Apple announced last week that, under certain conditions, the iPhone 3G ultracompact USB power adapter may cause “electric shock,” recalling all units from the US, Japan, Canada and other territories. While some may think this affects Apple's sales / image, American Technology Research analyst Shaw W... |
23 September 2008
02:50 GMT |
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Electric energy is crucial for Earth and its cycles. The Globe is like a huge electric circuit. The Ionosphere layer of the atmosphere is positively charged and the Earth is negatively charged. The difference is of about 250,000 volts. If we could make the connection, through a conductor, between Earth and Ionosphere... |
8 April 2008
10:48 GMT |
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The length of a day is not affected only by tides and winds. Underground forces are prolonging our days by milliseconds, as revealed by a new research published in the journal "Science." Phenomena from the mineral layer at the core-mantle boundary, 1,615 mi (2,600 km) deep, appear to impact the Earth's spinning ... |
8 April 2008
05:04 GMT |
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A US vehicle manufacturing company to mass produce a fully electrical car? Is it too good to be true, or is the US finally starting to turn around and cut its massive contribution to the greenhouse effect? Believe it or not, General Motors - famous for producing petrol thirsty cars - has recently revealed the concept... |
27 February 2008
10:20 GMT |
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The radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation. This theory was first emitted by the British James Clark Maxwell in 1864 and later confirmed by the German Heinrich Hertz in 1880. In 1887, Hertz showed in public the transmission and reception of radio waves. His emitter produced an electric current discharged... |
9 January 2008
06:25 GMT |
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The vast majority of the animals, including us, walk forward because they sense what's in front of them. Predators focus on the prey located in front of them. But a small electric fish from the Amazon, the black ghost knifefish (Apteronotus albifrons), just 15 cm (6 in) long, can move also backwards to catch its... |
14 November 2007
05:39 GMT |
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What speeds cosmic rays close to the velocity of light? Huge magnetic cocoons linked to galaxies whose black holes are inactive could solve the puzzle: the way the energy rich cosmic rays reach Earth, when normally they should have long finished their resources.Cosmic rays represent high-speed atomic nuclei, mainly h... |
23 October 2007
05:45 GMT |
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Generally, a long nose does not mean a better smelling sense. The African elephantnose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) has a "trunk" with a totally different goal. A team at the University of Bonn has shown how this works. In complete darkness, these fishes can see objects and make the difference between dead and live or... |
22 August 2007
07:12 GMT |
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A new and energy-efficient mechanical computer is not only small and incredibly robust, but it was also inspired by the blueprint of a researcher, created by a scientist nearly 200 years ago. It would have been built in its time, it would have meant a computer revolution more than a century and a half before the inv... |
25 July 2007
05:46 GMT |
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A newly developed technology could revolutionize most optical devices, making them much more adaptable, yet smaller and cost-effective. The variable liquid lenses and mirrors may one day replace conventional ones in camera phones, for instance, as they have no mechanical parts - thus taking less space - but maintain... |
23 July 2007
11:10 GMT |
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The electric organs are specialized organs, derived from the muscles or the nerve cell's axon, that can generate electric current, employed from catching the prey (electro-paralysis) to defense, orientation (electro-location, similar the way bats and dolphins use ultrasounds in ecolocation), or as a means of com... |
14 July 2007
11:36 GMT |
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Electric cars are an environmentally friendly alternative to old internal combustion engines that use fossil fuels and pollute the atmosphere. For now, they have their limitations regarding the autonomy, because electricity is very hard to store in conventional batteries and because recharge stations are still rare.... |
11 July 2007
05:49 GMT |
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You may have heard about electric rays, electric eels, or electric catfish. But an electric man? The reports show that the 71 year-old Zhang Deke, a retired highway maintainer from Altay city of China's westernmost Xinjiang, is able to stand charges (and he charges himself) of 220V of electricity passing through... |
10 July 2007
14:46 GMT |
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Because of the higher gasoline prices, the electric motorcycles and scooters are raising in popularity, and the battery technology is gradually improving, making this form of transportation more practical. The zero emissions, the easily rechargeable vehicles are just two of the advantages that the electric power come... |
9 July 2007
02:35 GMT |
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The Japanese company Hitachi developed a brain-machine interface, a new technology that allows you to control electronic devices without lifting a finger. It does that by reading brain activity and analyzing slightchanges in the brain's blood flow to detect brain motion, which is then translated into electric s... |
23 June 2007
06:15 GMT |
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To get a sex partner, both males and females employ a lot of signals, from pheromones and songs to gifts and elaborated dances or coats. But some of the methods look as if taken from fiction movies: electric serenades! A Cornell research team has found that the African electric fish couples not only employ specific e... |
21 June 2007
09:13 GMT |
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The famous German car maker Porsche is well known for the slick sports cars and the rear mounted boxer engines and is currently the world's largest race car manufacturer. The company has been successful in many branches of auto racing, scoring a total of more than 28,000 victories. The words Porsche and electri... |
6 June 2007
08:06 GMT |
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Scientists have suspected for years that electric fields cause cancer. But new investigations show that in fact they could stop or even kill it. Low-intensity, intermediate-frequency electric fields were useful in fighting off an aggressive brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). The electric field strateg... |
31 May 2007
03:00 GMT |
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An electric arc is an electrical breakdown of a gas which produces an ongoing plasma discharge, similar to the instant spark, resulting from a current flowing through normally nonconductive media such as air. An archaic term is voltaic arc as used in the phrase "voltaic arc lamp".Whether it's a lightning bolt o... |
2 April 2007
04:19 GMT |
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