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We've often heard of Li-Ion batteries giving headaches to cell phone owners and mp 3 player users alike. Some stories actually claim devices started shooting off sparks spontaneously, without any outside interference, even inside a person's pocket. This story, however, is something else...The Consumerist go... |
18 August 2008
09:23 GMT |
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Lithium-ion batteries are a type of rechargeable batteries that work by exploiting the movement of lithium ions between the anode and the cathode. Due to their low weight to power ratio, lack of memory effect and the slow rate of charge loss, they are currently the most popular type of rechargeable batteries availabl... |
11 June 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Recent reports emerging in China unveiled that an Asustek Eee PC ultra-mobile PC burst into flames due to an uncertified battery pack. The incident seems to have been triggered by the use of a third-party battery designed for the tiny Eee PC. Despite the fact that the notebook user was not injured, it caused substant... |
8 May 2008
03:55 GMT |
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If you got worried about the increasing number of reports regarding exploding notebook batteries, you should rest at ease, as Zpower has just announced a new type of battery pack, based on silver and zinc. The new compound will not only put an end to the feared explosions, but will also significantly increase the bat... |
6 May 2008
02:54 GMT |
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By using the Chandra X-ray Space Observatory and the XMM-Newton Space Observatory, astronomers were able to observe a light echo originating from a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which was first observable from Earth nearly 400 years ago. The supernova remnant, dubbed SNR 0509-67.5, lies 160,000 l... |
21 April 2008
08:27 GMT |
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A group of German researchers have just announced a new type of lithium-ion battery that promises to be safer and more reliable, even when used in extreme conditions. Recent incidents involving exploding batteries have put their reliability under question. You might remember the massive Sony battery recall in 2007 or... |
12 April 2008
05:31 GMT |
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Solar tsunamis were first discovered by ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory during the late 1990s, when the spacecraft was launched. Solar tsunamis are in fact solar filaments which sweep across the surface of the Sun in a tsunami-like fashion, releasing great quantities of energy in very short periods of t... |
2 April 2008
09:45 GMT |
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NGC 2397 is just another spiral galaxy presenting prominent dust lanes along its arms; older stars in its central regions and newly forming stars in the spiral arms are shown blue in this image. The galaxy is located about 60 million light-years away from Earth, however the Hubble Space Telescope is still able to pro... |
1 April 2008
04:06 GMT |
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With the help of light echoes, astronomers have been recently able to measure the brightness of a supernova explosion which took place about 400 years ago. The so-called SNR 0509-67.5 supernova remnant is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy in the near vicinity of our own Milky Way. While the original lig... |
20 March 2008
12:25 GMT |
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The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small galaxy in the Local Group only 160,000 light years away from Earth. Recently, NASA's Chandra X-ray Space Observatory discovered a large supernova remnant that contains large amounts of oxygen. The N132D supernova remnant is part of an oxygen-rich remnant and the brightest fe... |
18 March 2008
04:31 GMT |
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Blowing stuff up is probably one of the most entertaining activities known to us. We just can't help it, it's in our human nature. Every year, millions of tons of fireworks and other pyrotechnic substances are being detonated for various purposes, and most of the remnant materials and byproducts of the reac... |
17 March 2008
11:22 GMT |
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We know much about stars, but even more to learn about them, otherwise we wouldn't try to replicate them here on Earth, would we? Stellar life, evolution and death are now becoming the points of interest for the European research program, which plans to study about 25 nuclear reactions that take place inside sta... |
13 March 2008
06:00 GMT |
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The U.S. Pacific Northwest has just experienced an atmospheric meteorite explosion on Tuesday morning. Richard Pugh, a scientist at the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory of Portland State University in Oregon, said that the lucky ones could find marble to basketball size space rocks in eastern Oregon. The event was witn... |
22 February 2008
04:59 GMT |
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And not just by eating it, but by blowing up in your face as well! What are the chances of that ever happening? Well, I was just about to say none, but the fact is that a sugar explosion happened a week ago at the Imperial Sugar Company refinery in Port Wentworth, killing six people, injuring seventeen and severely d... |
14 February 2008
09:36 GMT |
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Computer Dynamics, a hardware manufacturing company that is known for its rugged computing solutions designed for the harshest operating environments, announced the launch of a new system that takes notions like ''rugged'' and ''rugged'' to a new level. The Ruffneck Zone 1 Expl... |
19 September 2007
09:19 GMT |
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A test flight of the SpaceShipOne went terribly wrong, resulting in an explosion that killed two people and critically injured four others, at the test site in the Mojave Desert, California. The ship, belonging to Scaled Components, is the first private manned rocket to reach space.The airport site was used by the p... |
27 July 2007
04:26 GMT |
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When is a bomb actually not a bomb? When it's made of multiple charges that increase the target area proportionally to deliver devastating damage with only one initial charge. When it comes to multiple warheads, nothing beats the US Air Force's CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon.Cluster bombs, which deliver multip... |
17 July 2007
10:59 GMT |
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The first explosion of a man-made nuclear weapon took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico. The world would soon realize the devastating effects of this type of weapon and would live with fear of global annihilation for half a century.What the world didn't know is that the US... |
17 July 2007
02:48 GMT |
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A man has been reported dead after his mobile phone exploded and caused him serious injuries. The victim is a Chinese man who was simply carrying his handset in the chest pocket.The man owned a Motorola phone model, although the mobile phone company expressed disbelief that it was actually one of their products. More... |
4 July 2007
10:59 GMT |
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A massive star, burning brighter than our Star, eventually depletes its helium in the core, and without any source of heat to balance the gravity, the core collapses until it reaches nuclear densities. This produces a supernova explosion.For the first time, astronomers discovered a star that seems to have died twice... |
14 June 2007
16:56 GMT |
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On August 6, 1945, a uranium-based weapon, "Little Boy", was released over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a plutonium-based weapon, "Fat Man", was dropped onto the city of Nagasaki. They were the first (and only) nuclear attacks in history.Officially, the first nuclear test - code-named "Trinity" -... |
11 June 2007
11:06 GMT |
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The Big Bang is a cosmological model in which the universe has been expanding for around 13.7 billion years, starting from a tremendously dense and hot state, thought to be the best model for the origin and evolution of the universe. But what happened before the Big Bang? A logical thinking would produce the obvious... |
5 June 2007
10:43 GMT |
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One of Russia's biggest radioactive waste storage facilities, located in the Kola Peninsula, in the Northwest, is, according to environmentalists, a ticking bomb, ready to explode in a short time if no countermeasures are taken.The blast would be worse than the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986, a... |
5 June 2007
03:42 GMT |
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An incendiary bomb is used to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using materials such as napalm, thermite, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus. Napalm is the most known incendiary material, although the name is improperly used to describe the incendiary substance itself, when in fact it's only the... |
4 June 2007
11:17 GMT |
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The Crab Nebula has been a real puzzle for astronomers for the past century, since the measured age didn't correspond to historical accounts. Now, a team of scientists recalculated its explosion date and finally solved the longstanding riddle.It is a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus, first obser... |
1 June 2007
10:44 GMT |
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For the first time, scientists have been able to decipher the mysteries of the neutron stars. Using computer simulations to reproduce the conditions in space, they have been able to find out their chemical composition and to learn more about the behavior of the matter under extreme pressures and temperatures.Neutron... |
22 May 2007
16:06 GMT |
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A group of scientists discovered new compelling evidence of a cataclysmic event that took place 13,000 years ago on Earth. A large comet exploded over the Earth and created a hail of fireballs that set most of the Northern Hemisphere on fire.After analyzing 26 different sites in Europe and North America, they found ... |
21 May 2007
08:42 GMT |
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Astronomers have just detected the brightest explosion of a star ever recorded, a huge new breed of supernova more than 100 times bigger than any one observed so far.The violent blast was photographed by both terrestrial telescopes and NASA's orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory in a galaxy far from our own Milky... |
8 May 2007
02:39 GMT |
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