Entries from December 2007
Japanese will create super-high-speed transistors
Employees of the Japanese research company Unisantis Electronics informed about their intention to develop and launch sale of three-dimensional transistors which will be able to work on a frequency up to 50 GHz, writes The Register.
Representatives of the company declare that new transistors SGT (Surrounding Gate Transistor) will be able to work 10 times faster, […]
Categories: General · Inventions
A huge stain has appeared on the Sun
Some days ago on the Sun has appeared the large stain, which quickly increases in sizes and has already become one of the largest this year, informs Space Weather.
At present, experts inform, the solar stain in diameter approximately five times exceeds the sizes of the Earth.
Scientists informed that the configuration of magnetic power lines […]
Categories: Space
The initials of the person influence the life
The initials of the person can have some influence on his or her successes in studies and sports. Such are the results of the research conducted in the USA.
Scientists, in particular, have established that baseball players, whose name or a surname begin with the letter K (meaning out in baseball), are in out often […]
Categories: General
The Sun can die out earlier, than it was considered
There is the conclusion of the group of the Swiss scientists headed by Margate Gaberreiter from solar observatory World Radiation Centre in Davos, informs New Scientist magazine.
Supervision of the Swiss astronomers have shown, the Sun constantly decreases in sizes, but an amount of emitted energy remains approximately the same.
Scientists found the measurements on […]
Divorces cause damage to an environment
Divorce negatively influences not only physical health of the dissolved and psychological well-being of their children, but also state of the entire planet, increasing amount of the resources spent for each person.
Such research is published this week on pages of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers lead by Tssang Lu from University of Michigan […]
Categories: General
In Japan cigarettes will be sold only by cards
Japan introduces smart-cards, called to prevent purchase of cigarettes by minors.
According to calculations, in Japan there are more than half million of devices selling tobacco goods. It is planned, that all of them will be equipped with special reading devices. Only owners of smarts-cards will be able to get cigarettes.
Cards named taspo will be […]
Categories: General · Inventions
The new technology can transfer automobiles to hydrogen fuel
Experts from university of Pennsylvania have declared creation of new technology due to which it is possible to switch automobiles into hydrogen fuel.
At their development scientists have used known earlier idea: any organic waste products, for example, the rests of meal are dumped in a small reactor. Further they are processed by special bacteria, then […]
Categories: Chemistry · General · Inventions