Archive: 12/01/2005
Crystal sponges excel at sopping up CO2
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 ...
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Net domain .eu opens for biz Dec. 7
The European Union's new .eu Internet domain opens Dec. 7, the EUobserver reported Thursday.
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ISS scheduled spacewalk is postponed
Russian space agency officials Thursday postponed a scheduled Dec. 8 spacewalk by the Russian-American crew of the International Space Station.
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Hawaii coast line collapses, lava flows
A 40-acre section of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park's coastline collapsed this week, producing a six-foot-thick geyser of molten rock.
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Investigating cosmic forces that produce new galaxies
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?
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Scientist says neutron stars, not black holes, at center of galaxies
For the past 50 years, black holes have been all the rage. Now, a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher says they never existed.
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Alleged 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico much, much older than thought
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 ...
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Titan gives clues to Earth's early history
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 ...
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Renesas, Grandis to Collaborate on Development of 65 nm MRAM Employing Spin Torque Transfer
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 ...
Dec 01, 2005 |
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World-class Physics at the Bottom of the World To Be Featured in Global Webcast
On Dec. 1, scientists at the National Science Foundation's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station will participate in a live, worldwide webcast in conjunction with the World Year of Physics (WYOP).
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Florida school evolution conflict delayed
Florida officials reportedly will postpone revising the state's new science-education standards for a year, delaying an explosive evolution debate.
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Feds and Dell to recycle electronics
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Dell Inc. will hold a one-day recycling event in New Orleans for equipment destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
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Breakthrough 3D simulations win prestigious 2005 Gordon Bell Prize
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.
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Frozen in Time: A Cold War Relic Gives up its Secrets
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 ...
Dec 01, 2005 |
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Intel to build 3.5 billion-dollar plant for 45 nm technology in Israel
Intel today announced plans to build a new 300-millimeter wafer fabrication facility at its site in Kiryat Gat, Israel. The new factory, designated Fab 28, will extend Intel’s manufacturing leadership by producing ...
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