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"When energy goes good..." Even though it doesn't sound right, that's exactly what Midé Technology has succeeded in doing, converting pesky helicopter vibrations into electrical energy to track its rotor and make dynamic balance adjustments while in midflight, a procedure which usually takes place only on t... |
5 March 2008
05:05 GMT |
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Would you like to pig out, not to work and still be thin? Good news: this could happen! A new research made in lab mice which spent 15 minutes daily on a vibrating platform found that they grew 28 % less fatty tissue than the group of control animals.But do not be fooled by waistband-jiggling vibration belts. The pla... |
25 October 2007
04:26 GMT |
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At a first glance, the association of the words "metal" and "rubber" seems to be at least illogical, if not absurd. The material properties of natural rubber that make it an elastomer and a thermoplastic are exactly the ones engineers try to avoid by using metal.But metal has one problem, that makes scientists turn... |
23 July 2007
09:04 GMT |
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Generally, the action of swarming applies to the animal kingdom, for instance to schools of fish, groups of insects and birds. This aggregation of similar elements that help animals find mates and survive predator attacks has now been successfully achieved in artificial systems made of copper rods.Vijay Narayan of t... |
6 July 2007
10:22 GMT |
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The IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre), a microelectronics research facility on the outskirts of Leuven, Belgium, created a new micro-device that can harvest energy from mechanical vibrations, by using micromachining technology.They even built a model that could be used to optimize the device during desi... |
23 June 2007
06:56 GMT |
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The question is not as silly as it looks, actually. Oscillations are present in many physical processes and sometimes they can have impressive consequences. They occur not only in physical systems but also in biological systems and in human society.For example, earthquakes are one of the most destructive oscillation... |
6 June 2007
06:05 GMT |
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Everybody knows the famous robot dance. Well, it seems that the next generation of bridges will dance on a different beat, the earthquake dance. A group of researchers made up mostly of earthquake engineers at the University at Buffalo and MCEER, funded by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, have reached the c... |
10 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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If you decided to skip the reading part and see the video first, no, the PS3 Elite doesn't cost $3000 so you can leave your father alone even if he is a successful businessman. Although they're making more fun of the PS3 than anyone has before them, it's not exactly a lie. You can imagine that a silv... |
7 May 2007
05:33 GMT |
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The about 4,000 species of termites found worldwide are some of the most important detrivores in tropical and subtropical areas, recycling wood and dead leaf. Their role in the ecosystem may be important, but their habit of consuming dead wood sometimes does great damage to buildings and other wooden structures.Their... |
21 March 2007
06:50 GMT |
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