The challenges of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
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The years 2008 saw the setting in operation the largest particle accelerator in the world. Project Pharaonic involving a real consortium of states (more than 20 states, spread over 5 continents), thousands of technicians, engineers and physicists are divided into many international teams.The LHC can be characterized only by superlatives,
Unprecedented detail on the surface of the star Betelgeuse
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Using the technique of “interferometry an international team led by an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris (LESIA) has obtained an image of unprecedented surface from the star red supergiant Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion. The photograph shows the presence of two huge bright spots whose size equals the Earth-Sun distance:
Graphite as semiconductor
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Researchers at the Max Born Institute in Berlin (MBI) have found that graphite behaved like a semiconductor over periods of ultra-short time. The results are important for the construction of electronic components of carbon for the treatment of high voltages or high frequencies.Recently, carbon nanomaterials have unique properties, have been employed in [...]
The electronic properties of graphene depend on the structure of the edges
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Graphene, the rising star of materials for the electronics of the future, is widely studied in the world of nanotechnology by many research groups around the world. A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, led by the director of the Joseph Lyding nanoelectronics, and the student Kyle [...]
Early demonstration projects for electric cars in Berlin
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On 19 February 2009, the energy company Vattenfall Europe and the automobile manufacturer BMW has installed the first station to recharge batteries for electric cars. For a year, and they will test the use of daily electric cars under a pilot project, supported by the Federal Ministry of Environment (BMU).
Berlin motorists various volunteers will be [...]
The challenges of electronic voting in the USA – Analysis of technological solutions for voting system
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The study of the issue of adoption of new voting technologies in the United States, widely debated among legislators, industry and citizens, may surprise the French observer at different points of view. The United States indeed organized around a decentralized structure of the electoral landscape near the French system, use voting [...]
The electronic properties of graphene depend on the structure of the edges
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Graphene, the rising star of materials for the electronics of the future, is widely studied in the world of nanotechnology by many research groups around the world. A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, led by the director of the Joseph Lyding nanoelectronics, and the student Kyle [...]
South Africa unveils its strategic plan for hydrogen research
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The Ministry of Science and Technology (DST) development on hydrogen and development of fuel cells as one of the key sectors of its scientific and technological development. To achieve its objectives the DST relies on mining assets in South Africa whose basement contains 80% of global reserves of platinum group metals (PGM) used and platinum [...]
The robot dance
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Joao Oliveira, a student of Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) created from a simple kit Lego NXT robotics innovative system capable of dance to different types of music in an intelligent manner and completely independently. This system combines mathematical algorithms with [...]
Eternal Youth for Technology
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Professorship Circuit and System Design of the TU Chemnitz searches the joint project “ParaObsol solutions to the problem of rapid aging of semiconductor elements.”
Even before the technology does not stop there: the age. Large machines can fail, because a small component is defective and is no longer available. “Obsolescence” – German [...]
