Artificial Muscles Get a Grip on Human Hand
Mar 01, 2005 |
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Six years ago a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., issued a unique challenge: build a robotic arm using artificial muscles that could arm wrestle a human. The results of that ...
Three new mid-range feature rich, voice-centric handsets from Nokia
Mar 01, 2005 |
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Nokia unveiled three new mobile phones, further strengthening its portfolio of mid-range feature rich, voice-centric handsets. The highlight of this announcement is the Nokia 6230i camera phone, which adds ...
China passes Renewable Energy Law to boost clean energy industry
Mar 01, 2005 |
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Chinese top legislature passed Monday the Renewable Energy Law to ease the energy strain, secure the country's energy security and better protect ecological environment. The bill on renewable energy was deliberated a second ...
Huge 2004 stratospheric ozone loss tied to solar storms, Arctic winds
Mar 01, 2005 |
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A new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates that two natural atmospheric processes in 2004 caused the largest decline in upper stratospheric ozone ever recorded over the far Northern Hemisphere.
World's Smallest Direct Methanol Fuel Cell By Guiness World Record
Mar 01, 2005 |
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Toshiba Corporation, the world leader in fuel-cell technology for handheld electronic devices, today announced that Guinness World Records has officially certified its highly compact direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) as the ...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Exposes Dusty Galactic Hideouts
Mar 01, 2005 |
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How do you hide something as big and bright as a galaxy? You smother it in cosmic dust. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope saw through such dust to uncover a hidden population of monstrously bright galaxies approximately ...
World's First Wireless LAN Operation Management Software Enabling Actual Observation of Communication Area
Mar 01, 2005 |
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NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in the development of the world's first efficient software for wireless local area network ("LAN") operation management, which is capable of actually observing the communication ...
Sea Launch Successfully Delivers XM-3 to Orbit
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Sea Launch Company successfully delivered XM Satellite Radio’s XM-3 satellite to orbit from its ocean-based platform on the Equator, in its first mission of the 2005 manifest. Early data indicate the spacecraft ...
New Hitachi Design Studios to incubate hard-drive-based consumer devices
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is announcing the opening of five new centers around the globe that will specialize in helping customers integrate hard drives into consumer electronic (CE) devices. By April, the new centers ...
Widespread Arctic warming crosses critical ecological thresholds, scientists warn
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Unprecedented and maybe irreversible effects of Arctic warming, linked to human intervention, have been discovered by a team of international researchers led by Queen's University biologist John Smol and University of Alberta ...
Mobile Spam Volume Doubles to Forty-Three Percent
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According to Wireless Services Corporation, 43 percent of all mobile phone text messages in the United States are now spam, compared to just 18 percent a year ago. In 2004 this amounted to over 1.2 billion messages blocked ...
MIT study confirms melatonin's value as sleep aid
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A new study by MIT scientists and colleagues confirms that melatonin is an effective sleep aid for older insomniacs and others. Misuse of the hormone had led some to question its efficacy, but the latest work (published in ...
Purdue researchers use enzyme to clip 'DNA wires'
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Researchers at Purdue University have attached magnetic "nanoparticles" to DNA and then cut these "DNA wires" into pieces, offering the promise of creating low-cost, self-assembling devices for future computers. ...
Fermilab experiment to beam neutrinos through Dairyland
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Mar 01, 2005 |
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In an effort to pin down the elusive nature and qualities of one of nature's most intriguing subatomic particles - the neutrino - scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, in Illinois will soon send ...
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