Metamaterials found to work for visible light
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Ames Laboratory researchers have found the first metamaterial known to work for visible light, announcing the discovery in the Jan. 5 issue of Science.
Cancer-killing invention also harvests stem cells
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Associate Professor Michael King of the University of Rochester Biomedical Engineering Department has invented a device that filters the blood for cancer and stem cells. When he captures cancer cells, he kills them. When ...
Black hole boldly goes where no black hole has gone before
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Astronomers have found a black hole where few thought they could ever exist, inside a globular star cluster. The finding has broad implications for the dynamics of stars clusters and also for the existence ...
A bumpy shift from ice house to greenhouse
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 04, 2007 |
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The transition from an ice age to an ice-free planet 300 million years ago was highly unstable, marked by dips and rises in carbon dioxide, extreme swings in climate and drastic effects on tropical vegetation, according to ...
Record speed for thin-film transistors could open door for flexible electronics
Jan 04, 2007 |
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A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a method of making flexible, thin-film transistors (TFTs) that are not only inexpensive to produce, but also capable of high speeds — even microwave frequency, ...
Humanoid avatar plays a competitive game of table tennis
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Recently, scientists have designed and built an immersive table tennis (or “ping-pong”) simulation that allows a human to compete against a computer. While most virtual reality environments support slow- or ...
SanDisk Launches 32-Gigabyte Solid State Drive Targeting Hard Disk Replacement In Notebook Computers
Jan 04, 2007 |
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SanDisk Corporation today introduced a 32-gigabyte (GB), 1.8-inch solid state drive (SSD) as a drop-in replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive. Initially aimed at enterprise users as the first ...
X-ray Evidence Supports Possible New Class Of Supernova
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Evidence for a significant new class of supernova has been found with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton. These results strengthen the case for a population of stars ...
What memories are made of
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Why is it that amnesia patients can't remember their names or addresses, but they do remember how to hold a fork? It's because memories come in many flavors, says Fred Helmstetter, professor of psychology at the University ...
How fish species suffer as a result of warmer waters
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Jan 04, 2007 |
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Ongoing global climate change causes changes in the species composition of marine ecosystems, especially in shallow coastal oceans. This applies also to fish populations. Previous studies demonstrating a link ...
Repetitive motion speeds nanoparticle uptake
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Newly published research by Rice University chemists and North Carolina State University toxicologists finds that repetitive movement can speed the uptake of nanoparticles through the skin.
Californians bask in solar energy
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Soaring energy costs, environmental consciousness and financial incentives have combined to make solar panels part of the California housing landscape.
Samsung Develops First Truly Double-sided LCD
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on each side of a mobile LCD display. Samsung's new double-sided LCD can show two entirely different ...
Renegade RNA -- Clues to cancer and normal growth
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that a tiny piece of genetic code apparently goes where no bit of it has gone before, and it gets there under its own internal code.
Saturn dominates the night sky in January
Jan 04, 2007 |
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The highlight of January will be the planet Saturn, which will rise in the east around 8 p.m. local time at the start of the month and two hours earlier by month's end. The planet with the famous rings will ...
