Spin-off Company Helps Customers See the Light

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When University of Arkansas professor Xiaogang Peng developed a series of powerful methods for synthesizing high quality nanocrystals in solution, researchers began asking him for samples, so he and his co-workers decided ...


Monkey Math Machinery is Like Humans'

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Monkeys have a semantic perception of numbers that is like humans’ and which is independent of language, Duke University cognitive neuroscientists have discovered. They said their findings demonstrate that the neural mechanism ...


Titan

Titan Weather: Cloudy Every 15 Years

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About two years ago, before the Huygens probe arrived at Titan, Henry Roe, a graduate student I was working with at Berkeley, discovered clouds on Titan. He was the first person to get images of what he thought ...


Targeted drug delivery achieved with nanoparticle-aptamer bioconjugates

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Ground-breaking results from researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, disclosed at the 13th European Cancer Conference (ECCO) have shown for the first time that targeted ...


India To Launch Exclusive Satellite To Track Natural Disasters

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In the wake of the recent earthquake which caused havoc in India and Pakistan, killing thousands of people, the Government of India has decided to launch an exclusive satellite that can track natural disasters, a top official ...


Neurons change in learning-memory process

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University of Texas-Austin neuroscientists say they have observed large-scale changes across neuron dendrites during learning and memory processing.


Intel Launches Next Wave Of Multi-Core Server Platforms

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Originally planned for early 2006, Intel Corporation’s first dual-core, hyper-threaded processors for servers with four or more processors started shipping today. The processors deliver record levels of performance and are ...


Satellite Detects Massive Star Partner

One of the Most Massive Stars in our Galaxy Has a Hot Partner

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Scientists using NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite made the first direct detection of a companion star of Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae is one of the most massive and unusual stars in the ...


Study: How bees handle complex colors

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University College London scientists say learning how bumblebees discern flower colors under multiple lighting conditions may help in robotic development.


Sony's CD Receiver Transfers Music Directly from a PC to a Car Stereo

Sony's CD Receiver Transfers Music Directly from a PC to a Car Stereo

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Advancing the market for in-car digital music, Sony Electronics today announced an AM/FM CD/MP3 receiver capable of storing up to 500 of your favorite tracks and receiving music directly from your computer ...


Entrust meets U.S. cybersecurity directive

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Entrust said Tuesday it had created solutions that meet Homeland Security requirements on accessing federal information systems.


Record-setting Arctic Ocean trip completed

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Two icebreaking ships have become the first surface vessels to traverse the Canada Basin, the ice-covered sea between Alaska and the North Pole.


Briefs: Neoware boosts 'thin' Africa sales force

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U.S. software company Neoware is expanding its sales force in South Africa in order to capture a greater share of the thin-client market in the area.


Researchers target silicon chips for biomolecular devices

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Arizona State University researchers in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering are key contributors to an $11.7 million, multicollaborative Defense Advanced Research Project Agency research project developing novel hybrid ...


Cybercards squeezing out Christmas cards?

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A British company predicts that digital Christmas greetings sent by mobile phone will soon render traditional Christmas cards obsolete.




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