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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:40:16 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: New Solar Concentrator Design
New Solar Concentrator Design
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:48:00 -0500
A new solar concentrator design from an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at the
University of California, San Diego, could lead to solar concentrators that are less expensive and require fewer photovoltaic cells than existing solar concentrators. Graduate student Jason Karp and his colleagues at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering presented the new solar concentrator in a paper in the January 2010 issue of the journal Optics Express.
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University of California, San Diego
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:40:16 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Topography of Mountains Could Complicate Rates of Global Warming
Topography of Mountains Could Complicate Rates of Global Warming
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:48:00 -0500
A new study concludes
that the future effects of global warming could be significantly changed over very small distances by local air movements in complex or mountainous terrain--perhaps doubling or even tripling the temperature increases in some situations.
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Oregon State University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:40:17 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Bizarre Matter Could Find Use in Quantum Computers
Bizarre Matter Could Find Use in Quantum Computers
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:49:00 -0500
There are enticing new findings this week in
the worldwide search for materials that support fault-tolerant quantum computing. New results from Rice University and Princeton University indicate that a bizarre state of matter that acts like a particle with one-quarter electron charge also has a "quantum registry" that is immune to information loss from external perturbations.
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Rice University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:40:17 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Crystal Defect Shown to be Key to Making Hollow Nanotubes
Crystal Defect Shown to be Key to Making Hollow Nanotubes
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:49:00 -0500
Scientists have no problem making a menagerie of
nanometer-sized objects--wires, tubes, belts and even tree-like structures. What they sometimes have been unable to do is explain precisely how those objects form in the vapor and liquid cauldrons in which they are made.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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