Archive: 09/01/2005
Parts of brain battle over decisions
Researchers have identified areas in the brain that anticipate joy and fear and say they battle it out when a big decision is to be made.
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Philips unveils world's first 'Rollable Display' pocket e-Reader concept READIUS
Building on its leading position in rollable displays, Philips Polymer Vision is revealing its Concept Readius at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany, September 2-7. Philips Concept ...
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Bumblebee See, Bumblebee Do
Just as travelers figure out which restaurant is good by the numbers of cars in the parking lot, bumblebees decide which flowers to visit by seeing which ones already have bee visitors. Bumblebees that watched ...
Sep 01, 2005 |
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How two liquids mix at the surface: an atomic view
Whenever cream is poured into coffee, these two liquids form a homogeneous mixture, which is difficult to separate again. Other liquids, such as water and oil, do not mix, instead forming emulsions, such as ...
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Sep 01, 2005 |
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Sandisk Launches Sansa Car Transmitter to Play MP3 Music Through a Car Radio
SanDisk today introduced the Sansa Car Transmitter, a device that will play music stored on a SanDisk Sansa MP3 digital player through a car radio. The stereo transmitter plugs into a standard vehicle cigarette lighter and ...
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Fermilab and Caltech successfully used UltraScience Net, achieved 7 Gigabits per second
Preparing for an onslaught of data to be processed and distributed in the upcoming years, scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the California Institute of Technology successfully ...
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Cingular, LG launch two new cell phones
Cingular Wireless and LG Electronics Thursday launched two new handsets with GSM, the C2000 low cost clamshell camera phone and the lightweight, great value C1500 clamshell phone. The C2000 and C1500 models ...
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Mouse genome much more complex than expected
More than 100 scientists from Australia, Asia, Europe and the US have been probing the genome of the mouse in a joint study lasting several years. Their results in some aspects have completely overturned geneticists' traditional ...
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Girl saved from drowning by computer
A British girl was saved from drowning by a computer after a warning system alerted security when she sank to the bottom of a swimming pool.
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Tech sector donating to Katrina relief
The U.S. technology community is lending its support to efforts to cleanup damage from Hurricane Katrina.
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Hurricane still keeping telecoms down
Just days after Hurricane Katrina made communication nearly impossible in the Gulf Coast region, national wireless phone companies said they did everything they could to prevent loss of service.
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Groundbreaking Research Sheds Light on Ancient Mystery
A researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology is unraveling a mystery surrounding Easter Island. William Basener, assistant professor of mathematics, has created the first mathematical formula to accurately model the ...
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Nature: economic growth impacts on China's air quality
China's spectacular economic growth during the last decade has brought many benefits – and some challenges. Global atmospheric mapping of nitrogen dioxide pollution performed by ERS-2's GOME and Envisat's SCIAMACHY ...
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Aquatic life dying in Gulf mystery
Researchers are looking for answers as aquatic life dies in the "dead zone" moving through the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.
Sep 01, 2005 |
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2001 article predicted New Orleans flood
A 2001 story in the magazine Scientific American predicted the flooding that New Orleans suffered from Hurricane Katrina.
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