American researchers at the University of Michigan announce that it is possible to create something out of nothing when the right conditions are met. In this case, what is needed is an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a particle accelerator at least two miles in length.What the team argues is that setting in motio... |
9 December 2010
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A gang of thieves has repeatedly raided a French store chain for the past four years and stole money from its safes by using powerful vacuums.The Sun reports that the burglars have recently pulled the fifteenth such hit against Monoprix supermarkets located around Paris.Their routine involves drilling a hole into the... |
24 September 2010
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On Monday, during a meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Portland, Oregon, researchers presented the foundations of a new imaging method that could allow for observing the smallest microorganisms at impressive resolution. The team that made the findings said that it may even become possible for experts t... |
19 March 2010
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The next mission to the Moon is going to be NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which is scheduled for launch, if all goes well, in about half a year, on April 24, 2009, aboard an Atlas V rocket. Currently, it is subject to tests that replicate the conditions it will face while orbiting the Moon. The one ... |
25 October 2008
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Under vacuum conditions, peeling off scotch tape from a roll even at a low speed causes small X-rays to emerge, showed early this week Juan Escobar, a University of California graduate student. During the experiment, a device slowly stripped the regular sticky tape off a roll at a speed of 1.2 inches (3.05 cm) per se... |
24 October 2008
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Some of you might think that creating a void is something easily achievable with today's technology, but the truth is far from reality. Not even the vacuum of space is completely empty. For example, vacuum is routinely used by physicists while undertaking studies related to quantum physics. But these vacuums are... |
6 March 2008
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There are a whole lot of mice on the market, but there's no one that sucks as much as the one I will talk about in this article. If you suddenly decide that it's no avail in reading about a mouse that's so bad, rest at ease, it literally sucks - it is world's first device born from the union of a ... |
19 February 2008
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This will leave your brain clean, but not washed! A "vacuum cleaner" for the brain could fix the clogged arteries of stroke victims, preventing the attack from having permanent serious consequences.Strokes usually take place when blood vessels nurturing the brain are blocked, and the oxygen-demanding neurons die. The... |
30 January 2008
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Is your body covered by flea bites from head to toes? Buy a vacuum cleaner! It will kill 96 % of the adult fleas and all their larvae! These are the results of a research carried on at the Ohio State University and published in "Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata".The researchers were so amazed by this that th... |
18 December 2007
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Orion is a spacecraft design currently being developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Each spacecraft of this type will be able to carry a crew of four to six astronauts and will be launched by the new Ares I launch vehicle. It is part of Project Constellation, the pride of NASA's ... |
21 June 2007
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You have probably seen, or at least heard of some movies that depict the never-ending theme of robots and their rebellion against humans, inferior beings, taking over the world, stuff like that. You'd probably think that after all these movies, people are terrified by robots and the thought that they might try ... |
11 June 2007
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The popular understanding of the term vacuum is that of a volume of space that contains nothing, or even worse, that doesn't contain air (blame the term - vacuum cleaner - for this misconception).In fact, it is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, so that gaseous pressure is much less than sta... |
11 May 2007
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I confess that it did cross my mind to rant a bit about all this tube-thing which seems to invade more and more the audio industry related to hi-tech gear such as iPod and the like. So far, I will cheer up and tell you about the first tube-amplified iPod docking station. Thanko, the Japanese Thanko (wasn't reall... |
19 March 2007
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