Light Corp., a company from Grand Haven, Michigan, is launching a lighting control system that allows users to remotely control the lighting in industrial buildings. The system, called Intu, is inexpensive and easy to install, ...
After safely reaching its launch pad Saturday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the space shuttle Atlantis now awaits its next major milestone for the upcoming STS-122 mission. The full launch dress rehearsal is scheduled from ...
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2007
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Scientist’s efforts to fathom how the oceans influence climate and fisheries productivity enter a new era this month with the milestone establishment of a network of 3,000 futuristic, 1.5-metre tall ocean robots operating ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2007
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A new antenna made of plasma (a gas heated to the point that the electrons are ripped free of atoms and molecules) works just like conventional metal antennas, except that it vanishes when you turn it off.
General Physics
Nov 12, 2007
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Tiny probes packed with instrumentation have been turned loose in a laboratory in France.
General Physics
Nov 12, 2007
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Scientists at the University of Virginia have discovered a new class of hydrogen storage materials that could make the storage and transportation of energy much more efficient — and affordable — through higher-performing ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 12, 2007
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It has long been assumed that consumers are good judges of affordability, but a new study reveals that how much you’re willing to spend is influenced by whether you think about a larger pool of resources (such as your bank ...
Other
Nov 12, 2007
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A forthcoming study from the Journal of Consumer Research looks at how consumers anthropomorphize products, endowing a car or a pair of shoes with human characteristics and personalities. The researchers, from the University ...
Other
Nov 12, 2007
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Researchers are studying the remarkable shape- and color-changing abilities of the octopus and its close relatives in an effort to understand one of nature’s most remarkable feats of camouflage and self-preservation.
Nov 12, 2007
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Scientists in Maryland are reporting an important advance toward the long-sought goal of industrial-scale fabrication of nanowire-based devices like ultra-sensitive sensors, light emitting diodes, and transistors for inexpensive, ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 12, 2007
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