Archive: 09/02/2005
Drilling tiny tunnels gets easier in a big way
The counterintuitive rules of physics at the nanometer scale create several thorny problems for scientists when they try to fashion three-dimensional channels in fluid-handling devices. Now, University of ...
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Man Against Machine
Computer-generated method outperforms human-designed program for fingerprint improvement It sounds like a plot for a science fiction movie, but it's not. Computers now create programs that solve complex pr ...
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Planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy shares $1 million Shaw Prize in astronomy
Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy's tenacious pursuit of planets outside our solar system has paid off with the discovery by him and his team of more than 110 extrasolar planets. Now, that doggedness is paying off in another way ...
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Philips calls for technology industry to step up pace in realizing simplicity
Philips is to use the forthcoming launch of High Definition TV (HDTV) services in Europe as a rallying call for the technology industry to increase its application of simplicity in product creation.
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Switching between liquid and gel
Twisted nanostructures are an important biological motif—just think of the DNA double helix or proteins with helical sections important to their function. Researchers are anxious to produce artificial helices, which could ...
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Printable Electronics Market To Surpass $7 Billion In Revenue in 2010…
According to a new report from NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm, the market for printable electronics will generate estimated revenues of over $7 billion ($ US) in 2010 driven by demand for printable displays, RFID, ...
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NASA's Durable Spirit Sends Intriguing New Images From Mars
Working atop a range of Martian hills, NASA's Spirit rover is rewarding researchers with tempting scenes filled with evidence of past planet environments. "When the images came down and we could see horizon all ...
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Nobel prize winner Joseph Rotblat dies
Scientists around the world paid tribute to Joseph Rotblat, a Polish nuclear physicist and Nobel peace prize winner, who died at age 96.
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The Role of Titanium in Hydrogen Storage
As part of ongoing research to make hydrogen a mainstream source of clean, renewable energy, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have determined how titanium atoms help hydrogen ...
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Microorganism eating contaminants
ASU researcher Bruce Rittmann has found an environmentally friendly way to mitigate the human health threat from perchlorate drinking water contamination. Perchlorate is a component of solid rocket fuel.
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Single molecule transistors
A team of scientists led by ASU biophysicist Stuart Lindsay, director of the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics at the Biodesign Institute and an ASU professor of physics, recently created the first reproducible single ...
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A water tale for all seasons: When it comes to hydration and exercise, the system works
A US Army lab found dehydration has a minimal effect in the cold, but cuts performance by 8% in temperate weather. It’s the difference between a 2 hour-30 minute and a 2:42 marathon. Plus, five “common sense” tips on hydration, ...
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New insights into the software of life
A series of discoveries by an international consortium of scientists, including a team from The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), will transform our understanding of how our genome works ...
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CryoSat arrives safely at launch site in Russia
After leaving the Space Test Centre in Germany on 29 August, CryoSat has safely arrived at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 800 km north of Moscow, Russia. CryoSat is scheduled for launch on 8 October 2005 at ...
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Information Suitor Highway goes mobile
More online-dating businesses are shifting gears to keep up with the latest technological trend in eDating by going mobile.
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