University of California researchers surprisingly found that when peeling back commonly used adhesive tape the motion between the two surfaces generates electromagnetic radiation in the…
Former SAP star Agassi to set up $1 billion electric car network in Australia
By Stan Beer
The man once touted as the next CEO of SAP Shai Agassi has forged agreements between his company, Better Place, Australian utility heavyweight AGL Energy…
The first moon mission for India, Chandrayaan-1, is scheduled to lift off on Wednesday, October 22, 2008. The unmanned spacecraft is expected to orbit the…
Australia is to host a distributed energy conference in November, organised by the CSIRO. The event, hosted in Sydney, will focus on ways to generate…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced its 2009 best and worst automobiles with respect to fuel mileage. Will this help you decide on a…
CERN officials confirmed on October 16, 2008, that a large helium leak within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, was caused…
In a typical household, over 12 percent of the power bill goes on the small amounts of power consumed by devices in standby mode. Are…
A Japanese researcher is experimenting with a way to manipulate the spin of electrons in magnetized solids so as to eventually make computer memory devices…
Toxic mercury: fluorescent or incandescent light bulbs. What's better?
By William Atkins
Researchers from Yale University have conducted a study showing compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) instead of incandescent bulbs produce a net global reduction of toxic mercury…
CERN announces that the Computing Grid for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running, as of October 3, 2008, connecting over 140 computer…
