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Developers of digital camera technology receive Nobel Prize On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Boyle and Smith, as well as scientist Charles Kuen Kao, who developed a way to transmit light via fiber optics. Thanks ...
How astronauts could 'harvest' water on the moon Newly confirmed water on the moon could help sustain lunar astronauts and even propel missions to Mars, if harvesting it can be made practical. A microwave device being developed by NASA could do just that. Three spacecraft India's ...
Carbon nanotubes: length matters Fig. 1: Dielectric response of a metallic carbon nanotube before and after cutting. White arrows indicate the cut tube and its fragments. The dielectric response is almost linearly dependent on length up to 2 m. Increasing demand for smaller and ...
Oerlikon Solar Presents Record Cell Efficiency confirmed by NREL Over 10 percent stabilized efficiency on amorphous silicon reconfirmed by US s National Renewable Energy Laboratory Historic milestone for amorphous silicon PV technology Oerlikon Solar s proprietary TCO front and ...
Oerlikon Solar Wins Solar Industry Award Thin Film Innovation Award 2009 for Oerlikon Solar s TCO 1200 Deposition System Enabling highest thin film silicon efficiency on the market Higher efficiency leads to project cost savings Second renowned industry award for Oerlikon Solar ...
GE: Solar business is our 'next wind' General Electric plans to give its solar business a charge in two years with the introduction of panels with the same solar cell material used by industry cost leader First Solar. In 2011, the energy giant expects to produce solar panels made ...
Customized Vacuum Pump Systems for PV Processes Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum offering the complete package from system engineering, design, installation to maintenance. Send to a friend Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, a leading supplier of advanced vacuum systems for use in manufacturing ...
New Vista Of Milky Way Center Unveiled In this new and deep image from Chandra of the Galactic Center, red represents lower-energy X-rays, green shows the medium range, and blue indicates the higher-energy X-rays. Hundreds of small dots show emission from material around black ...
GreenSun Develops Colorful Solar Panels that don t need Direct Sunlight A Jerusalem company called GreenSun has developed bright-colored panels. Officials say the hues capture different parts of sun s spectrum, and don t need direct sunlight to work, according to National ...
Magnetized Gas Points to New Physics By Adrian Cho ScienceNOW Daily News 18 September 2009 Peer pressure. Magnetic domains in steel (vertical bans) arise when neighboring electrons point their magnetic poles in the same direction. Credit: Zureks, Chris Vardon/Wikimedia It would ...
Swift Makes Best-ever Ultraviolet Portrait Of Andromeda Galaxy This mosaic of M31 merges 330 individual images taken by the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope aboard NASA's Swift spacecraft. It is the highest-resolution image of the galaxy ever recorded in the ultraviolet. The image ...
Molecular Evidence Supports Key Tenet Of Darwin's Evolution Theory Artist's rendering of a human cell. As a model system, the research focused on one specific molecular machine, the TIM complex, which transports proteins into mitochondria. Mitochondria are a compartment of human ...
Oerlikon Solar Joins Clairvoyant Energy and Xtreme Power to Establish one of the Nation s Largest Renewable Energy Parks at Ford Motor Site Project Expected to Generate Thousands of Michigan Jobs through 2014 Wixom, MI, September 10, 2009, A group of renewable energy companies ...
Jupiter Captured Comet For 12 Years In Mid-20th Century Figure showing comet Kushida-Muramatsu's orbital path around Jupiter. (Credit: Ohtsuka/Asher) Comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu was captured as a temporary moon of Jupiter in the mid-20th century and remained trapped in an ...
Flying Armadillo has the power to escape the moon The million-dollar Lunar Lander Challenge prize will be claimed this year. Already one team's craft has completed an Earth-based test trip which proves it has the oomph to achieve lunar orbit from the moon's surface. Two more ...
Pfeiffer Vacuum with sound development in the 1st half year of 2009 While Pfeiffer Vacuum was unable to completely elude the impact of the financial and economic crisis during the 1st half year of 2009, the company s position continued to develop well. Increasing its revenues for ...
Hubble Opens New Eyes On The Universe Butterfly emerges from stellar demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the ...
UFO 'filmed for 40 minutes' by Chinese scientists during solar eclipse Is it what we think it might be? A still image taken during the sighting of what appears to be a UFO that appeared over China during the July 22 solar eclipse Could this finally be it - 40 minutes of ...
Highway in the sky: The gravitational corridors that could help spacecraft travel the solar system Highway in the sky: The gravitational corridors that could help spacecraft travel the solar system Gravitational corridors could help spacecraft fly across the solar system like ...
LCROSS Impact Analysis Indicates Water on Moon The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact. (Credit: Image courtesy of NASA) The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
The Number One Document also proposed a new pricing plan for China's ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Employees demonstrate Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' Xperia Play ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...