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  Engineer argues Egyptian pyramid decay is due to centuries of expansion

  By Nathan Olivarez-Giles on May 11, 2013 03:13 am + 8 comments

  For centuries, Egypt's pyramids have been a point worldwide fascination. Scholars have long asked, Continue reading…

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  Global warming could lower summer work capacity to 80 percent by 2050

  By Carl Franzen on February 25, 2013 06:51 pm + 148 comments

  The amount of work people can do in the summer compared to the rest of the year has dropped to 90 Continue reading…

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  Thermal bimetals help buildings shelter themselves from the sun

  By Louis Goddard on October 27, 2012 08:44 am + 21 comments

  Architecture professor Doris Kim Sung has given an excellent TED talk on her work with thermal Continue reading…

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  Booty alert: sensor-laden cows text farmers when they're in heat

  By Vlad Savov on October 2, 2012 07:04 am + 14 comments

  Now here's an unexpected application of modern wireless technology: bovine reproduction. Swiss Continue reading…

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  Light, heat, and vibration: MIT's new chip can harvest energy from all three simultaneously

  By Evan Rodgers on July 9, 2012 07:37 pm + 19 comments

  Harvesting electricity from vibration, ambient light, and thermal energy sources represent a sizable Continue reading…

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  Thermal imaging reveals hot spots on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

  By Kimber Streams on June 25, 2012 06:23 pm + 131 comments

  Japanese site IT media has tested the Macbook Pro with Retina Display to see just how hot it runs Continue reading…

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  New iPad heat output only slightly higher than Android tablets

  By Dante D'Orazio on March 26, 2012 12:17 pm + 131 comments

  Following last week's concern over overheating iPads, PCWorld has now run a gamut of tests on the Continue reading…

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  Apple responds to reports of new iPad heat issues, says it operates 'within our thermal specifications'

  By Nathan Ingraham on March 20, 2012 11:28 am + 248 comments

  Reports that the new iPad (Check out our iPad review) generates more heat than the iPad 2 have been Continue reading…

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  Tests show new iPad runs 9.6 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than iPad 2

  By Sam Byford on March 20, 2012 05:27 am + 339 comments

  It looks like we weren't the only ones to notice the new iPad getting slightly warmer (Check out our Continue reading…

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  Scientists measure heat produced by erasing a single bit of information

  By T.C. Sottek on March 12, 2012 07:10 am + 5 comments

  In 1961 physicist Rolf Landauer claimed that resetting a single bit of information, like setting a Continue reading…