Producing Dark Matter
May 02, 2006 |
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“Colliders have been the tool of choice for particle physicists to look at smaller and smaller particles. All a sudden we are realizing that we can use them not only to understand things at smaller scales, but for understanding ...
IBM Researchers Demonstrate New Method for Rapid Molecule Sorting and Delivery
May 02, 2006 |
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IBM researchers have demonstrated a new nanoscale method that both rapidly separates very small numbers of molecules and also delivers them precisely onto surfaces with unprecedented control. When fully developed, ...
Incredibly short light pulses capture our microscopic world
May 02, 2006 |
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An international collaboration including researchers from Amsterdam, Paris, Baton Rouge (USA) and Lund University, (Sweden), has made a breakthrough which moves some of the mathematics of quantum mechanics off of the blackboard ...
Targeted virus compels cancer cells to eat themselves
May 02, 2006 |
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An engineered virus tracks down and infects the most common and deadly form of brain cancer and then kills tumor cells by forcing them to devour themselves, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center ...
Samsung and T-Mobile release T509
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 02, 2006 |
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Samsung Telecommunications America and T-Mobile USA announced Tuesday the retail availability of the thinnest bar phone available in the U.S. market.
Samsung Develops 7-inch WVGA, Single-Chip LCD for Mobile Devices
May 02, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the industry's first amorphous silicon (a-Si) seven-inch, single-chip TFT-LCD panel that reproduces colors in high resolution (WVGA-level, 800×480 pixels).
BabyBot takes first steps
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 02, 2006 |
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BabyBot, a robot modelled on the torso of a two year-old child, is helping researchers take the first, tottering steps towards understanding human perception, and could lead to the development of machines ...
Nano World: Water for denser nano-memory
May 02, 2006 |
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Water and electronics ordinarily do not mix, but water fragments might help control memory bits in electronics only nanometers or billionths of a meter in size, potentially leading to simpler, incredibly dense computer data-storage ...
T Cell 'Brakes' Lost During Human Evolution
May 02, 2006 |
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A significant difference between human and chimpanzee immune cells may provide clues in the search to understand the diverse array of human immune-related diseases. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) ...
What is the sound of one person talking?
May 02, 2006 |
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When researchers interviewed 40 Columbus residents about their opinions on life in the city, the scientists ignored what the people had to say. All the scientists really cared about was how they said it.
Is a Russian peninsula really part of North America?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 02, 2006 |
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For many years geologists have harbored a belief that the Kamchatka Peninsula, shrouded in mystery and secrecy on Russia's east coast, actually sits on the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States, ...
Peeking Behind Venus' Veil
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 02, 2006 |
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A camera visiting Venus, onboard the Venus Express spacecraft, has sent back its first pictures of the planet. The "Venus Monitoring Camera", developed at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research ...
New laser lab shows fastest physical processes known
May 02, 2006 |
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The University of Reading has developed a laser laboratory that is capable of showing some of the fastest physical processes known. The Ultrafast Laser Laboratory (ULL) can generate high energy laser light pulses with durations ...
Treasure dig threatens Bosporus tunnel
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 02, 2006 |
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A 4th century seaport has been discovered in Turkey at one end of a planned $2.6 billion tunnel under the Bosporus Straits.
Video phones to sacrifice early profits
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 02, 2006 |
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Telecoms industry forecasters have downgraded their predicted video calling figures to reflect the sluggish growth in the video telephony market, recommending that network operators should sacrifice early profits in favor ...
