Aqueous Nanocomposites as a New Binder for Coatings

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This year's FARBE & LACK prize awarded by the German trade magazine of the same name has gone to BASF: Dr. Franca Tiarks and Dr. Jörg Leuninger from Polymer Research and Development Architectural Coatings in the Regional B ...


Artist's concept of Supernova  Credit: NASA

After Trio of Explosions, Scientists Say Supernova is Imminent

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Three powerful recent blasts from three wholly different regions in space have left scientists scrambling. The blasts, which lasted only a few seconds, might be early alert systems for star explosions called ...


The diatom species Thalassiosira pseudonana

Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle

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The first ever genomic map of a diatom, part of a family of microscopic ocean algae that are among the Earth's most important inhabitants, has yielded surprising insights about the way they may be using nitrogen, ...


NSF funds first nanoscale center for learning and teaching

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With a five-year, $15,000,000 grant to Northwestern University, the National Science Foundation is funding the nation's first Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT). The center, under ...


Sun and The University of Texas Power Up One-of-a-Kind Supercomputer

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Texas Advanced Computing Center goes live with Maverick, a unique high performance grid-based computer to provide remote 3D graphics and data intense compute resources for global weather prediction and homeland security The Texas Advanced Comput ...


Dr. Eileen Stansbery and other members of the Genesis cleanroom team look at recovered samples

Genesis Mission Status Report

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The Genesis team is preparing to ship its samples of the Sun from the mission's temporary cleanroom at the U.S. Army Proving Ground, Dugway, Utah, to NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. "We have essenti ...


DVD+RW 8X to be the World's Fastest DVD Rewriting

DVD+RW 8X to be the World's Fastest DVD Rewriting

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The DVD+RW Alliance, a voluntary association of industry-leading personal computer, optical storage and consumer electronics manufacturers that support the Plus format for DVD recording, has announced the release of final draft specification ...


Panasonic Smart SD Cards

Industry's First 'Smart' SD Memory Card

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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand products, has developed the industry’s first SD Memory Card with contactless smart card capabilities. Called smartSD Card, the new ...


Astronomers peer back to 'dawn of galaxies'

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Detailed analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images has allowed astronomers to determine a major event in the evolution of the universe. The astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope’s Ultra Deep Field (UDF) to peer 95 percent of the w ...


Testing Einstein's theory: NASA Gravity Probe B mission

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As a major NASA mission begins science operations, native DeWitt Burns can make a rare claim - that he helped test Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. ...


DART flight demonstrator, top left, rendezvous with the MUBLCOM satellite, bottom right, in orbit

NASA spacecraft moves one step closer to fall launch

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A demonstration of unmanned spacecraft rendezvous in space - something that has never been done in the history of U.S. spaceflight - is planned later this month. The Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) ...


UK Joins Next Stage of Aurora

UK Joins Next Stage of Aurora

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Prof. Ian Halliday, Chief Executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council [PPARC], confirmed an investment of GBP 3.5M [5M EUR] on behalf of the UK to the European Space Agency's [ESA] European Prepar ...


Prototype Micro Fuel Cell for 3G FOMA Handsets

Prototype Micro Fuel Cell for 3G FOMA Handsets

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NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today the joint development of a prototype micro fuel cell for 3G FOMA® handsets. The prototype, manufactured by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., is expected to greatly extend FOMA handset usage time onc ...



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