Archive: 06/03/2005
Green diesel: New process makes fuel from plants
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 ...
Jun 03, 2005 |
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DNA of prehistoric cave bears sequenced
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. ...
Jun 03, 2005 |
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Verbal sexual content on TV more powerful than visual images
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 ...
Jun 03, 2005 |
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CE Manufacturers Establish Global Alliance To Promote Home Networking Over Powerline
Consumer Electronics Powerline Communications Alliance (CEPCA), a not-for-profit industry organization whose mission is to ensure co-existence between various high-speed, powerline communication (PLC) systems for use in the ...
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TI's DSP-Based Digital Media Processors at the Forefront of Emerging High-Definition Videoconferencing
Continuing to drive innovation in digital media applications, TI's TMS320DM642 DSP-based digital media processor provides the foundation required to bring high-definition (HD) video and audio to the videoconferencing market. ...
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Engineers Find A New Wrinkle in Research
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 ...
Jun 03, 2005 |
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New Self-Assembling Technique Provides Path to Manufacturing Complex Nano-Electronic Devices
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 ...
Jun 03, 2005 |
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IBM to Offer 'Statistical Timing' Solutions for Chip Designers
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 ...
Jun 03, 2005 |
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Feelers for insect robots
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 ...
Jun 03, 2005 |
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Securing the Internet of things
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 ...
Jun 03, 2005 |
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Baby, you can drive my song
A new University of Southern California computer system lets a user "drive" a piece of music, using a wheel and foot controls. The Expression Synthesis Project (ESP) interface, devised by a team led by Elaine ...
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New authentication code urged for digital data
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending a new algorithm for authenticating digital data for federal agencies. Called CMAC (cipher-based message authentication code), the algorithm can authenticate ...
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New radiofrequency device
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 ...
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Scientists create digital bacteria to forge advances in biomedical research
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 ...
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Arctic Lakes Are Disappearing
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 ...
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