Archive: 10/03/2005
Rally for less U.S.-centric Internet gains momentum
While U.S. dominance of the Internet is clear, and the use of English prevails in cyberspace, there is increasing pressure from both industrialized and developing nations alike to break up at least some of the world's sole ...
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Modeling the Sound of Music
If a musical instrument has never been built before, how can you know what it will sound like? That's the question UC Berkeley graduate student Cynthia Bruyns is answering with Vibration Lab, software she's designing to simulate ...
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Home-networking boom coming
New home developers -- and Silicon Valley technology companies -- are collaborating to bring consumers the "digital domicile," a completely connected home, where TVs, iPods and other appliances are all linked, finally taking ...
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Gravity Probe B Mission Completes Data Collection
Almost 90 years after Albert Einstein first postulated his general theory of relativity, scientists have finished collecting data to put it to a new, different kind of experimental test. NASA's Gravity Pro ...
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Brookhaven Lab Breaks Ground for New Nanocenter
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory held a groundbreaking ceremony today for the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN). The CFN will provide researchers with advanced probes and ...
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Scientists create PNA molecule with potential to build nanodevices
For the first time, a team of investigators at Carnegie Mellon University has shown that the binding of metal ions can mediate the formation of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) duplexes from single strands of PNA that are only ...
Oct 03, 2005 |
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Study finds way to cut sea lamprey numbers
Minnesota scientists say they've found a way to reduce sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes by attracting them to areas where they can be sterilized.
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China SME tech purchases surging
A report by a government-run technology consultancy says IT spending by small and medium enterprises in China will top $28 billion dollars in five years.
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BellSouth ups e-mail storage to 250MB
BellSouth is expanding its broadband e-mail storage capacity to 250 megabytes without any added cost to their customers.
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Your favourite TV programme anywhere
Good news for TV addicts. Soon they will have the possibility to watch their favourite TV programmes wherever they may be as a result of new chipsets for digital TV from a dynamic French electronics company.
Oct 03, 2005 |
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A space station view on giant lightning
Do giant flashes of lightning striking upwards from thunder clouds merely pose an extraordinarily spectacular view? Or do they actually alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere, playing a role in ozone ...
Oct 03, 2005 |
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Precision bonding makes tiny high performance actuators possible
Using a new precision bonding process they developed, Penn State researchers have designed and fabricated tiny new piezoelectric microactuators -- the largest only a hair's breadth wide -- based on coupling ...
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Machines making other machines: new twist on self-replication
How can we best build self-replicating machines? The past few decades have witnessed self-replicating virtual automata, ranging from the benign Game of Life by Conway to malicious computer viruses. Self-replicating physical ...
Oct 03, 2005 |
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Black Holes Aren't So Black
Common wisdom holds that we can never see a black hole because nothing can escape it - not even light. Fortunately, black holes aren't completely black. As gas is pulled into a black hole by its strong gravitational force, ...
Oct 03, 2005 |
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Mobile fraud executive found guilty
The Tokyo district court found guilty Monday a businessman who had made fraudulent claims about setting up a mobile-phone company.
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