Green diesel: New process makes fuel from plants
Jun 03, 2005 |
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College of Engineering researchers have discovered a new way to make a diesel-like liquid fuel from carbohydrates commonly found in plants. Reporting in the June 3 issue of the Journal Science, Steenbock ...
Feelers for insect robots
Jun 03, 2005 |
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Many insects sense their way around their immediate surroundings by means of moving feelers. Now research scientists have applied this active spatial recognition of objects to create a new mechatronic type ...
DNA of prehistoric cave bears sequenced
Jun 03, 2005 |
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The genomic DNA sequencing of an extinct Pleistocene cave bear species – the kind of stuff once reserved for science fiction – has been logged into scientific literature thanks to investigators from the U.S. ...
Verbal sexual content on TV more powerful than visual images
Jun 03, 2005 |
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The attitudes and beliefs that young people have about sex may be more swayed by what they hear on television, rather than what they see, according to a University of Michigan researcher. A recent study by ...
NASA OKs 2007 Phoenix Mars Mission
Jun 03, 2005 |
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NASA has given the green light to a project to put a long-armed lander onto the icy ground of the far-northern martian plains. NASA's Phoenix lander is designed to examine the site for potential habitats for ...
Engineers Find A New Wrinkle in Research
Jun 03, 2005 |
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North Carolina State University researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering are exploring the possible benefits of wrinkles – how to create them, how to control them and how to use them. Wrinkles, or ...
Aura Spacecraft Measures Unusual 2005 Arctic Ozone Conditions
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Despite near-record levels of chemical ozone destruction in the Arctic this winter, observations from NASA's Aura spacecraft showed that other atmospheric processes restored ozone amounts to near average and ...
IBM to Offer 'Statistical Timing' Solutions for Chip Designers
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IBM today announced it would market to companies that design advanced integrated circuits a new suite of technology solutions aimed at greatly improving the performance of their chip designs. It is a statistical timing ana ...
New Self-Assembling Technique Provides Path to Manufacturing Complex Nano-Electronic Devices
Jun 03, 2005 |
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In the time it takes to read this sentence, your fingernail will have grown one nanometer. That's one-billionth of a meter and it represents the scale at which electronics must be built if the march toward ...
Sharp Introduces 65V-Inch Digital HDTV the World's Largest LCD Model
Jun 03, 2005 |
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Sharp Corporation announces the introduction into the Japanese market of the LC-65GE1 AQUOS 65V-Inch Digital High-Definition LCD TV, the world’s largest LCD model. The LC-65GE1 features a full-spec high-definition LCD ...
European funding for research on Biomolecular Nanomachines
Jun 03, 2005 |
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Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, and from eight other scientific institutions in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Italy have received 2 Million Euro from the ...
Securing the Internet of things
Jun 03, 2005 |
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RFID tags and transponders are spreading like wildfire despite data privacy concerns. To improve RFID technology security, researchers have developed a software platform that connects a wide variety of sensor networks to any en ...
New radiofrequency device
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Jun 03, 2005 |
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Physical Review Letters, has recently published an article about a radiofrequency device that was designed by a team of researchers at the Public University of Navarra, together with teams from the University of Seville and th ...
Arctic Lakes Are Disappearing
Jun 03, 2005 |
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Global warming appears to be causing lakes to drain and disappear in Arctic regions, a UCLA-headed team of researchers report in the latest issue of Science. If the pattern persists, it may imperil migratory birds and wreak further havoc on ...
Scientists create digital bacteria to forge advances in biomedical research
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Biological assays on computer study molecular basis of cellular behavior Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have constructed a computer simulation that allows them to study the relation ...
