Compressor-free refrigerator may loom in the future 6 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric ... | |
 Now That's Cool: Engineers Out to Thaw the Mysteries of Ice 6 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Ye canna change the laws of physics!" Scotty warned Captain Kirk on Star Trek. But engineers and physicists at the University of Maryland may rewrite one of them. | |
 CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider 9 hours ago | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle ... | |
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