Scientists Unravel Midwest Tornado Formation
Apr 01, 2005 |
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Although tornadoes are usually thought of as springtime storms that develop in early evenings out of isolated weather cells, storm watchers now say that conception often fails to hold, especially in the larger ...
NEC Develops Compact Millimeter-Wave Transceiver for Uncompressed HDTV Signal Transmission
Apr 01, 2005 |
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Technology enables wireless, cable-connection-free high-definition TV sets NEC Corporation today announced the successful development of a highly compact 60-GHz-band (*1) wireless transceiver that transmits uncomp ...
Chemists probe secrets in ancient textile dyes from China, Peru
Apr 01, 2005 |
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Chemists journey to Gobi region for samples, discover novel dye in textiles from Peru Although searching for 3,000-year-old mummy textiles in tombs under the blazing sun of a western Chinese desert may seem more Indiana ...
Picking on Einstein
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Apr 01, 2005 |
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of a revolution in our notions of space and time. Before 1905, when Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, most people believed that space and tim ...
More Than Half World Population Exposed to Natural Hazards
Apr 01, 2005 |
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The World Bank has published a report entitled, "Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis," that presents a global view of disaster risks associated with some major natural hazards—drought, floods, cyclones, earthquakes, ...
Hitachi Develops a Robot that has the Capabilities for Daily Life and that Moves in Response to Dialogs with People
Apr 01, 2005 |
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced that it has developed a robot - called "EMIEW"* - for supporting people's everyday lives. EMIEW has the physical capabilities, such as agile movement and obstacle avoidance, needed ...
New miniaturised chip dramatically reduces time taken for DNA analysis
Apr 01, 2005 |
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The portable device will speed up performing paternity tests, identifying bacterial infections and detecting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) A team of researchers at the Universitat Autтnoma de Barcelona has deve ...
New fuel cell drives around hydrogen economy roadblocks
Apr 01, 2005 |
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As gasoline prices climb ever higher and the U.S. Senate backs oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the possibility of a hydrogen economy -- where drivers tank up on clean-burning hydrogen fuel -- gleams ...
The trust game: Measuring social interaction
Apr 01, 2005 |
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If trust is a two-way street, then researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have mapped where in the brain that trust is formulated and how the decision to trust shifts with experience. In a report in this week's issue of ...
New High-Speed Oscillator Designed to Improve Application Reliability
Apr 01, 2005 |
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Pericom Semiconductor Corporation, a worldwide preferred supplier of high-performance integrated circuits and SaRonix frequency control products, today announced a revolutionary breakthrough in crystal clock oscillator technology ...
Feat of experimental acrobatics leads to first synthesis of ultracold molecules
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Achievement could benefit fields of superchemistry, quantum computing A research team that in 2003 created an exotic new form of matter has now shown for the first time how to arrange that matter into complex molecules. T ...
Philips announces industry's first RFID chip solution to support next-generation EPCglobal specification
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Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it has produced, supplied and - in cooperation with its industry partners - tested first engineering samples of an RFID chip compliant with EPCglobal's Ultra High Frequency (UHF) ...
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