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Electric Yellowstone

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…to do all the calculations needed to produce the geoelectric plume picture. The supercomputer was the Ember cluster at the University of Utah’s Center for High Performance Computing, says Cuma,…

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iPhone the Body Electric

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…500 copies were downloaded in the first 11 days. The original ImageVis3D was written by Jens Krueger, a German computer scientist and adjunct faculty member at the SCI Institute, and…

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Power Steering for Your Hearing

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…active “outer hair cells” that amplify sounds. Other higher animals have hair cells, without a distinction between inner and outer. Because the new study shows the dancing hair-like stereocilia act…

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Robots, a Moonbuggy and More

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…fourth-year mechanical engineering students will present and demonstrate their capstone research projects. For details on the projects, including the Moonbuggy, electric skateboard, solar-power vehicle and others, please see: http://www.mech.utah.edu/senior_design/06/index.php/Profiles/ME4000Projects 9:30…

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A New Step in Spintronics

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…rather than their electrical charge] for things like computer memory, computer processors and sensors of various sorts.” More research and engineering are needed to produce such devices that are spintronic…

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How Lice and Bird Feathers Stick Together

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…by parasites like those that cause malaria.” Experiments to learn why bird size matters to lice After making measurements to confirm bigger birds have bigger feathers and smaller birds have…

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Tiny Transistors for Extreme Environs

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…on top of the other. Electricity flows through one of the layers, called the channel. The other layer, called the gate, controls current flowing in the channel. If sufficient voltage…

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