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Huge 2004 stratospheric ozone loss tied to solar storms, Arctic winds

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.

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Fermilab experiment to beam neutrinos through Dairyland

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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World's Smallest Direct Methanol Fuel Cell By Guiness World Record

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 ...

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China passes Renewable Energy Law to boost clean energy industry

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 ...

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Purdue researchers use enzyme to clip 'DNA wires'

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. ...

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World's First Wireless LAN Operation Management Software Enabling Actual Observation of Communication Area

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 ...

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MIT study confirms melatonin's value as sleep aid

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 ...

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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Exposes Dusty Galactic Hideouts

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 ...

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Artificial Muscles Get a Grip on Human Hand

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 ...

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Mobile Spam Volume Doubles to Forty-Three Percent

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 ...

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Widespread Arctic warming crosses critical ecological thresholds, scientists warn

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 ...

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New Hitachi Design Studios to incubate hard-drive-based consumer devices

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 ...

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Three new mid-range feature rich, voice-centric handsets from Nokia

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 ...

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Sea Launch Successfully Delivers XM-3 to Orbit

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 ...

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