New kind of magnetism.
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (PNN) - December 20, 2012 - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a new state of matter with a new kind of magnetism. This new state, called a quantum spin liquid (QSL), could lead to significant advances in data storage. QSLs also exhibit a quantum phenomenon called long-range entanglement, which could lead to new types of communications systems, and more.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (PNN) - December 10, 2012 - Utah State University presented a first-of-its-kind electric bus that is charged through wireless charging technology in a demonstration Nov. 15.
NEW YORK (PNN) - December 7, 2012 - John McAfee - anti-virus pioneer, "person of interest" in a Belize murder investigation, and launcher of increasingly bizarre media stories - has been captured. It happened after journalists from Vice accidentally published an iPhone photo of McAfee with embedded GPS data.
NEW YORK (PNN) - December 7, 2012 - A security expert thinks the hacktivist movement Anonymous is planning an imminent cyber attack against the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union.
MUNICH, Germany (PNN) - November 28, 2012 - The biggest black hole blast ever found blasts out 400 solar masses of material per year, and is five times more powerful than any other scientists have ever seen. The blast is so large it spreads about 1000 light-years out into the surrounding galaxy.
HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - November 27, 2012 - Researchers have tested a small prototype of a nuclear-reactor engine design that could one day power deep-space exploration probes.
The proposed design is based on a Stirling engine - an engine first invented in the 19th century that uses hot pressurized gas to push a piston. It would use a 50-pound nuclear uranium battery to generate heat that is then carried to eight Stirling engines to produce about 500 watts of power.
LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - November 21, 2012 – It’s a future far from Ponch and Jon, the Los Angeles-based motorcycle officers of “CHiPs,” a TV series that rose to popularity in the 1970s. In this take on the Kalifornia Highway Patrol of 2025, patrol cars and motorcycles would be replaced by computerized drones; chips take over CHiPs.
ARLINGTON, Texas (PNN) - November 13, 2012 - We’ve seen nanomaterials that can be used to convert light into electricity and others that can convert heat into electricity. Now researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington and Louisiana Tech University have created a hybrid nanomaterial that can do both. By pairing the material with microchips, the researchers say it could be used in self-powered sensors, low-power electronic devices, and biomedical implants.
RIDGEFIELD PARK, New Jersey (PNN) - November 19, 2012 - Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give you unprecedented control over an HDTV, the devices themselves, more similar than ever to a personal computer, may allow hackers or even Samsung to see and hear you and your family, and collect extremely personal data.
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (PNN) - November 12, 2012 - Scientists have theorized that paper-thin composite nanomaterials could stop bullets just as effectively as heavyweight body armor, but progress has been hampered by their inability to reliably test such materials against projectile impacts.
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