Scientist says neutron stars, not black holes, at center of galaxies
Dec 01, 2005 |
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For the past 50 years, black holes have been all the rage. Now, a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher says they never existed.
Frozen in Time: A Cold War Relic Gives up its Secrets
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Lying far above the Arctic Circle, the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya is one of the most remote places on Earth, which is precisely why these mountainous, wind-swept islands were used as the Soviet Union’s ...
Alleged 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico much, much older than thought
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Alleged footprints of early Americans found in volcanic rock in Mexico are either extremely old - more than 1 million years older than other evidence of human presence in the Western Hemisphere - or not footprints ...
A sugar-cube-sized competitor to iPod
Dec 01, 2005 |
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It's said that in electronics, smaller is always better. If that's the case, the iPod may have found a challenger for portable music-playing supremacy.
Koreans introduce 'talking' robots
Dec 01, 2005 |
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A talking, bartending robot has made its debut in Busan, Korea, serving world delegates with drinks and conversation at the recent APEC forum.
Military develops a Star Trek-like phaser
Dec 01, 2005 |
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First comic strip hero Dick Tracy's wrist radio moved from science fiction to everyday fact and now Capt. Kirk's phaser is headed to the Air Force arsenal.
Review: Firefox 1.5
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Who says free software is worthless? Last year the developers at Mozilla took on the aging Internet standard, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and had an instant hit on their hands with Firefox 1.0. A large ...
Crystal sponges excel at sopping up CO2
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Dec 01, 2005 |
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Since the Industrial Revolution, levels of carbon dioxide---a major contributor to the greenhouse effect---have been on the rise, prompting scientists to search for ways of counteracting the trend. One of the main strategies ...
Men and women differ in brain use during same tasks
Dec 01, 2005 |
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The comedians are right. The science proves it. A man's brain and a woman's brain really do work differently. New research from the University of Alberta shows that men and women utilize different parts of ...
Titan gives clues to Earth's early history
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Readings from the Huygens probe of the surface and atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon, Titan, give researchers a peek back through time to when and how Earth's atmosphere formed, and how our primitive planet ...
Nanothermometers for cancer
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Thermometers only nanometers or billionths of a meter in diameter could boost the effectiveness of heat- or cold-based anti-cancer therapies and optimize genetic analysis devices and electronics design, experts told UPI's ...
Chandra proves black hole influence is far reaching
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered evidence of energetic plumes – particles that extend 300,000 light years into a massive cluster of galaxies. The plumes are due to explosive ...
Breakthrough 3D simulations win prestigious 2005 Gordon Bell Prize
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Dec 01, 2005 |
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A team of scientists led by physicist Fred Streitz has been awarded the 2005 Gordon Bell Prize for pioneering materials science simulations conducted on the world’s fastest supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Renesas, Grandis to Collaborate on Development of 65 nm MRAM Employing Spin Torque Transfer
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Renesas Technology and Grandis, Inc. have agreed to collaborate on the development of 65 nm process MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) employing spin torque transfer writing technology. Renesas Technology will start to ...
Investigating cosmic forces that produce new galaxies
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When galaxies collide (as our galaxy, the Milky Way, eventually will with the nearby Andromeda galaxy), what happens to matter that gets spun off in the collision's wake?
