Panasonic Will Market First Li-Ion Storage Battery for Home Use in 2011
The battery could power zero-emissions homes
Bringing power storage to the people, Panasonic
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Dynamite Dissection: Television
Ever wonder what's inside your television? Lots of very small pieces, it turns out.
We decided
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An Electrifying Christmas Light Display, Courtesy of Nikola Tesla
A physics fanatic down under is having a very Tesla
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The Shocking Truth: How To Make High-Voltage Sparks
I've always thought it would be funny to build scale-size exploding grain silos for a model train
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The Future of Your Wristwatch Isn't a Phone (Yet)
What happens when a fantastical gadget appears in the flesh?
The goal of a watchphone is
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Video: Laser-Etched Crystal Zoetrope Embeds Victorian-Era 3-D Animation in Your Table
South Korean designers update an old pre-movie device to create a compelling 3D animation
You may
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Laser Watch of Tomorrow
Because lasers make even the most basic of tasks cooler
Imagine this. It?s a particularly
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iSnack 2.0: When Technology Meets Vegemite
When well-intend crowdsourcing goes horribly wrong
Way back in the 1920s, a public competition
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Australian Science Festival and Pathfinders ? On This Week!
If you?re in Canberra this week make sure to check out the Australian Science Festival and Pathfinders, and pop in to say ?hi? to Popular Science. We?ll be there all week
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The Future of Your Wristwatch Isn't a Phone (Yet)
What happens when a fantastical gadget appears in the flesh?
The goal of a watchphone is
Read more...
Laser Watch of Tomorrow
Because lasers make even the most basic of tasks cooler
Imagine this. It?s a particularly
Read more...
Video: Laser-Etched Crystal Zoetrope Embeds Victorian-Era 3-D Animation in Your Table
South Korean designers update an old pre-movie device to create a compelling 3D animation
You may
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Ultra-Strong Biomimetic Adhesive Could Allow Human Wall-Walking, Ceiling-Dancing
Leaping tall buildings, punching through solid concrete walls and using public phone booths
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Heading to the Olympics? Don't Leave Without Controlling the CN Tower's Lights With Your Mind
Vancouver will host the largest "thought-controlled computing" installation ever
It wouldn't be the
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Google Puts Foot Down On Chinese Net Censorship
And China in turn censors the news
Yesterday?s announcement
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The Secret Lives of Particle Accelerators
Sometime in the next week, the world?s largest particle accelerator should start firing twin beams of protons on a collision course beneath the French-Swiss border. The Large Hadron Collider will run at only half its maximum energy for the next year and a half, however,
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Magnetic Ink Turns Any Paper Into Possible Nanomachine
It seems like everyone is trying to make nanomachines these days, usually through some expensive
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Rewriting Desktop Printer Can Erase and Reuse Documents
Figuring out how to recycle TPS reports and office printouts appears to have become a passion for Japanese engineers, as DigInfo News has discovered in recent days. If the "White Goat" machine that converts paper sheets into toilet paper failed to appeal, consider this
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Higgs Discovery Is 'Just Rumors,' Tweets Fermilab
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory responds via Twitter to rumors that circulated earlier this week claiming
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German scientists measure how fast an electron jumps, the shortest time interval ever measured
During an average day of knocking electrons loose from their host atoms with high-energy lasers, a team of European physicists uncovered the shortest time interval ever measured in nature. At about 20 attoseconds, the
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Antibacterial graphene 'paper' could lead to better bandages
A new antibacterial paper could lead to food wrappers that keep food fresh longer, shoes that never stink, and bandages with a built-in ability to deter infection. It turns out a paper-like material made of graphene -- thin sheets of carbon just a single atom thick -- have
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IBM researchers create the most detailed brain map yet
Researchers at IBM have created the most complex neurological map ever seen, detailing the comprehensive long-distance network that makes up the macaque monkey brain in
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Strained graphene creates pseudo-magnetic fields stronger than any before seen
Putting the right kind of strain on a patch of graphene can make super-strong pseudo-magnetic fields, a new study says. The finding sheds new light on the properties of electromagnetism, not to mention the odd properties of graphene, according to researchers at
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Japanese and American duo nearly doubles pi record, using home-built computer
Shigeru Kondo spent some $18,000 to build a desktop Windows computer that, over the course of three months, shattered the world record for calculating pi. Running in the 54-year-old system engineer's home, where he lives with his wife and mother, the machine calculated pi to 5 trillion
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Using Home Astronomy Software, Citizen Scientists Discover New Pulsar
Through the Einstein@Home program, about 250,000 private citizens from 192 countries donate time on their home and office computers to help comb through astronomical data. Now, for the first time, three of those citizen scientists -- Chris and Helen Colvin of Iowa and
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At The iGEM Competition, College Students Engineer New Biological Systems
Pack up that baking soda volcano - this science fair is hardcore
College and high school students from the world over begin convening in Boston today for the International
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Five Contests That Recognize The Science Achievements of the Everyman
There's a long tradition of offering big cash prizes to entice talented and creative individuals to solve problems that have stymied industry and governments for decades. For example, in 1810, French cook Nicolas Appert won a 12,000-franc government prize for a food preservation
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