Archive: 05/02/2005
Prelaunch Test Under Way
The STS-114 Return to Flight crew arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Sunday to participate in the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. The three-day event allows the crew to practice ...
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Samsung First to Market with Serial ATA II Hard Disk Drives
Samsung Electronics Ltd. introduces the world's first Serial ATA II hard drives that are currently shipping and available to consumers. Samsung offers a complete family of Serial ATA II hard drives featuring an 80GB platter ...
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ISS Expedition 11 Crew: One Week Behind
The new crew members of the International Space Station completed their first full work week today. They performed routine maintenance, continued to settle in and practiced photography for the Space Shuttle Return to Flight ...
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Researchers Develop Stronger, Lighter Tent Fabric for Military
When it comes to quickly setting up temporary buildings, the U.S. military relies on structures familiar to hikers and campers – tents. These facilities, known as large-area shelters, are used for command-and-control centers, ...
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Researchers Identify Genes Essential for Regeneration
University of Utah researchers - feeding microscopic pills of RNA to quarter-inch long worms called planarians - have identified many genes essential to understanding a biological mystery that has captivated ...
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Siemens VDO Develops Advanced Piezo Unit Injection System
Siemens VDO Automotive AG will be presenting the development phases of an efficient piezo unit injection system with the potential to master future environ-mental requirements at the 26th International Vienna Motor Symposium. ...
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Education Magnified 100,000X
Kids have always had a fascination with the other-worldly images produced by a scanning electron microscope (SEM): ants sitting on microchip picnic tables, salt crystals in gritty detail, the scales of a butterfly ...
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Solar Storms, Arctic Winds Swirl in a Double Dip Cone of Ozone Loss
Solar storms, such as the unusually intense events in October and November 2003, affect many aspects of our lives, such as radio signals and satellite communications. Now a new study partially funded by NASA ...
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Motorola i605: First Bluetooth-Enabled Rugged Mobile Phone
Nextel Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc. today announced the Motorola i605, the first rugged Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone. The rugged Motorola i605 handset offers exclusive features, including Nextel’s ...
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Marvell and Nexthop Introduce Integrated Wireless LAN Enabled Switching Solutions
Marvell, the technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications and storage solutions, and NextHop Technologies, Inc., the definitive source for network software solutions, today announced that they ...
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Innovative Plasma Technology Could Propel Future Deep-Space Missions
A team of engineers and scientists led by NASA have begun investigating the physics and performance of magnetic nozzles -- innovative devices that could support development of plasma-based propulsion systems. ...
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LG Electronics develops world's first 50-inch single scan PDP
LG Electronics has developed world’s first 50-inch XGA-type PDP modules with the application of single scan technology, and is set to begin its full production and sales in May. LG Electronics successfully developed an ...
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Lenovo Completes Acquisition Of IBM's Personal Computing Division
Lenovo Group Limited and IBM today announced the closing of the acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division by Lenovo, creating a new international IT competitor and the third-largest personal computing company in the ...
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The nano-revolution continues at Argonne
Federal and state officials will visit Argonne National Laboratory May 6 to participate in a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM). The CNM, which is currently under con ...
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Six previously blind patients detect light, motion, identify objects with artificial retina
Researchers from the University of Southern California and the Doheny Eye Institute's Doheny Retina Institute will be presenting data on the first six patients implanted with an intraocular retinal prosthesis - more popularly ...
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