Archive: 06/02/2005
Eastern Montana's B. rex now yields female bone tissue
It’s a girl … and she’s pregnant! Paleontologists at North Carolina State University have determined that a 68 million year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil from Montana is that of a young female, and that she ...
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Shadow Technique Improves Measurement of Micro Holes
Sometimes seeing a shadow can be as good or better than seeing the real thing. A new measurement method* developed by researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a case ...
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Elpida's 1.8 Volt, 256Mb Digital Consumer DRAM Delivers Lower Power Consumption for Handheld Applications
Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced a new 1.8 Volt, 256 Megabit SDRAM device suitable for use in battery-operated products such as digital still cameras, di ...
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Stylish Motorola I836; 'Brains and Beauty' Join Together In a Full-Featured Phone
Italian-designed handset combines advanced technology with sleek design Nextel Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc. today announced the Motorola i836, a sleek and stylish wireless phone that delivers the adv ...
Jun 02, 2005 |
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Nature Study Uncovers Structure of Key Protein Complex in Cells
Scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have uncovered the structure of a network of proteins that help regulate the life cycle of cells. Understanding the network's physical layout is an important step ...
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Record efficiency photon detectors for quantum cryptography
Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST). ...
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Space Telescopes Sharpen View of Deep Impact Target
On July 4th, the University of Maryland-led NASA mission known as Deep Impact will get its one and only shot at its target, comet Tempel 1. Maryland astronomer Michael A'Hearn and his mission colleagues ant ...
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Hitachi, Renesas Develop Technology to Enable Interconnection of Stacked Chips at Room Temperature
The new technology enables a room-temperature bonding of 10 stacked chip layers in a package with a thickness of 1 mm or less Hitachi, Ltd. and Renesas Technology Corp. today announced a new stacked chip te ...
Jun 02, 2005 |
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German government selects Philips technology for national smart passport roll-out
Royal Philips Electronics today announced that the German passport printing authority, the Bundesdruckerei GmbH, has selected on behalf of German Ministry of Interior its contactless smart card chip for use in the country’s ...
Jun 02, 2005 |
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Sticky teflon: recovery of fluorine-containing catalysts with a teflon strip
Cake doesn't cling to pans with a nonstick coating, fried eggs don't stick to a teflon pan. So nothing sticks to teflon? Not so! Teflon can also be very "sticky", which is a desirable property, particularly to John A. Gla ...
Jun 02, 2005 |
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Airbags associated with increased probability of death in accidents, study finds
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that airbags installed in automobiles have saved some 10,000 lives as of January 2004. A just-released study by a statistician at the University of Georgia, ...
Jun 02, 2005 |
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Scientists find a maturity gene
When gene is disabled, young flies don't grow up University of Utah researchers showed that a fruit fly gene is crucial for determining when juveniles begin to mature into adults, and how the transformatio ...
Jun 02, 2005 |
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A radical solution for environmental pollution
Nature abounds with examples of bacteria that can thrive in extreme situations—surviving on toxic chemicals, for instance. In a paper published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) May 25, University ...
Jun 02, 2005 |
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ARC solar thermal building product demonstrates energy savings of 48 per cent
Researchers at the Alberta Research Council Inc. (ARC) have completed a pilot study identifying a more efficient technology to insulate homes, reducing space heating costs for homeowners. Researchers proved by combining direct ...
Jun 02, 2005 |
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New Law for Resolution Allows Unprecedented Sharpness in Fluorescence Microscopy
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen establish a new law allowing unlimited optical resolution in fluorescence microscopy Max Planck researchers have succeeded in ove ...
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