Nano World: Carbon nanotube capacitors
Feb 03, 2006 |
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Carbon nanotubes could help release and hold electrical energy, for potential use in everything from microchips to hybrid cars, experts told UPI's Nano World.
The Mysterious Smell of Moondust
Feb 03, 2006 |
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Moondust. "I wish I could send you some," says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. "It's amazing stuff."
Wireless World: Real-time Head & Shoulders
Feb 03, 2006 |
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A customer at a retail store picks a bottle of shampoo off the shelf, heads to the cashier, and pays for the product. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tag on the item sends a notice to the store's network -- alerting ...
Globe Talk: Students meet innovation needs
Feb 03, 2006 |
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Summer may seem an eternity away for those still struggling to weather the bleak winter season, but for college students, the race to snag a spot with some of the hottest internships around is already well under way. And ...
Iceman may have been infertile
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The prehistoric man discovered in 1991 on a glacier in the Alps had roots in Central Europe and may have been infertile, say Italian researchers.
New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa
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A new, more robust analysis of recently derived human gene trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, shows three distinct major waves of human migration out of Africa instead ...
Expert: You too can be creative; it just takes hard work
Feb 03, 2006 |
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Do you desire to be a more creative person but don't think you have the "creative" gene? You may have some hard work ahead, but it's possible to become the next Walt Disney or Martha Stewart, says an expert ...
'Trust me, I'm a physicist' – the weird world of quantum entanglement
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Feb 03, 2006 |
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Declaring that it is always useful to start a lecture with a literary quote, Professor Sir Peter Knight began his on quantum entanglement with the statement: "Let's just say we want to avoid any Imperial entanglements."
Seeing stardust: New image shows speck of comet dust from NASA mission
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This photo from NASA shows a mote of comet dust embedded in a tiny wedge of aerogel extracted from the Stardust collectors that returned to Earth Jan. 15. The comet dust was extracted by University of California, ...
Nanoscale Engineering to Power a Greener Future
Feb 03, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of St Andrews have discovered a new material which could lead to significantly more powerful fuel cells than currently available. The School of Chemistry scientists have found a new electrode ...
New measurements prove myosin VI can act as molecular transporter
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In living organisms, hundreds of different kinds of molecular motors perform a variety of essential, but little understood tasks that result in such actions as muscle contraction, cell division and the movement ...
Green Up: Game time, Day 2
Feb 03, 2006 |
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In late January the development team of "America's Army," the United States Army's free video game for the Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems, arrived in Camp Guernsey, Wyo., for three days of hands-on training ...
Green Up Journals: Game time
Feb 03, 2006 |
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It is late January and the development team of "America's Army" -- the U.S. Army's free video game for the Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems -- has arrived in Camp Guernsey for three days of hands-on training ...
World's first MOSFETs with epitaxial Gd2O3
Feb 03, 2006 |
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Researchers at AMICA and Technical University of Darmstadt have successfully fabricated the world's first MOSFETs on ultra-thin-body silicon-on-insulator (SOI) material and bulk silicon with a crystalline gadolinium oxide ...
China's 12 billion New Year messages
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Telecom officials in Beijing forecast 12 billion text messages were sent over the weeklong Chinese New Year holiday.
