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Element 114 Verified-> 0

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on Tuesday October 20 2009, @02:49PM

ExRex writes "A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has confirmed the results of researchers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, who first reported producing the superheavy element 114 in 1999. Such independent verification is important, particularly given evidence of fabricated results for other superheavy elements.
If you're a subscriber to Physical Review Letters you can download the full article."
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Nanotube Loudspeakers-> 0

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on Thursday January 22 2009, @12:23PM

ExRex writes "An article in Physics Today alerts us to a simple loudspeaker design based on nanotubes.

Researchers from Tsinghua University and Beijing Normal University have demonstrated a simple loudspeaker design based on nanotubes: They showed that a thin film of nanotubes can reproduce sounds over a wide frequency range--including the full human audible range--with high sound pressure level, low total harmonic distortion, and no magnets.

There's a nice video of a nanotube speaker membrane being deformed without the audio being distorted. Here's a link to the full article at Nano Letters of the ACS."
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Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi...-> 0

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on Wednesday September 12 2007, @12:03PM

ExRex writes "Possibly the only way to watch Star Wars at home: The R2-D2 Home Theater System.

This is the only home theater system available that is modeled after the famous droid from the Star Wars films.
R2's head houses a DLP projection system with superior 1,500:1 contrast, and can project movies, TV shows, images, and video games from his radar eye at 1024 x 768 resolution onto walls up to 16 1/2' away, equivalent to an 80" screen....
There are lots of other features, including a remote built into a model of the Millennium Falcon.

Finally we can see Princess Leia's message properly projected."
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