Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Mixed tech news

''Researchers take molecule's temperature
"When you get down to making small electronic devices or tiny junctions, you have to worry about how energy ends up in the form of heat," Natelson said. "In the case of macroscopic objects, like the filament in a light bulb, you can attach a thermocouple -- a thermometer -- and measure it." When light bulbs get hot, they also glow. "If you look at the spectrum of the light coming out, you can figure out how hot it is," he said.
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''SATURN'S RINGS: ROBBED FROM A MOON?
Ices stripped off a long-lost moon may have provided the raw materials for Saturn's rings and inner satellites before the Titan-twin slammed into its mother planet, new research shows.
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''When computers go wrong'' [source]
''FROM POLYMORPHISM TO POLYTYPISM'' [source]

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