Archive: 12/04/2004
NASA Study Finds Glacier Doing Double Time
A NASA-funded study found the world's fastest glacier, Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae, doubled its speed of ice flow between 1997 and 2003. The study provides key evidence of newly discovered relationships between ...
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Elpida Memory Develops 90 nm Silicon Wafer Process for High-Performance DDR2 SDRAM
Advanced Process Technology Boosts Production Efficiency for Superior DDR2 Products Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that is has developed its ...
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New Imaging Techniques Based on Metallic Nanoclusters
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University has won a four-year $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop novel in-vivo cellular ...
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Applied Materials Launches Breakthrough 45nm PVD Copper Barrier/Seed Technology
Applied Materials, Inc. today introduced the Applied Endura CuBS II, a breakthrough system that enables PVD copper barrier/seed deposition at 45nm and beyond. The system's new SIP EnCoRe II process chambers feature novel, ...
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New RADEON X850 and RADEON X800 broaden top-end offerings for gamers
ATI Technologies Inc., the global leader in PC graphics, today broadened its offerings for PC gamers and extended its performance lead with the introduction of a family of powerful new graphics processors. The new additions ...
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AMD And Cable & Wireless Enable Internet Connectivity And Computing Power Throughout The Caribbean With The Personal Int
Building on the launch of the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) in October 2004, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced Cable & Wireless will be offering the PIC to citizens of the Caribbean. Cable & Wireless will ...
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Purdue engineers create model for testing transistor reliability
Researchers at Purdue University have created a "unified model" for predicting the reliability of new designs for silicon transistors – a potential tool that industry could use to save tens of millions of dollars annually ...
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UU Research Pushing Back the Frontiers of Space
Cutting edge research at the University of Ulster into how to make complex computers and communications systems manage themselves could power the next generation of US space probes, it was revealed today. Roy Sterritt, fro ...
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NJIT physicists expect new super lens to reveal first light by early 2006
"This is an exciting time in all fields of astronomy because advances in technology enable us to build instruments that would have been only dreams a few years ago," said lead researcher Philip Goode, PhD, distinguished professor ...
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Did our Sun capture alien worlds?
Close encounter may explain some objects beyond Neptune Computer simulations show a close encounter with a passing star about 4 billion years ago may have given our solar system its abrupt edge and put s ...
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NIST demonstrates data 'repair kit' for quantum computers
A practical method for automatically correcting data-handling errors in quantum computers has been developed and demonstrated by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Described in the Dec. 2, ...
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Very Large Telescope Takes Snapshots of Two Grand-Design Spiral Galaxies
Images of beautiful galaxies, and in particular of spiral brethren of our own Milky Way, leaves no-one unmoved. It is difficult indeed to resist the charm of these impressive grand structures. Astronomers at ...
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Perfect packaging
Corrugated cardboard is an excellent packaging material that is widely used for transporting, storing and protecting goods. Through the new process developed by EUREKA project, corrugated cardboard can be transformed into ...
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All Earth wants for Christmas? A sock for its coal
Concerns about greenhouse gases and global warming are getting scientists to think in unconventional ways about how to stem the carbon dioxide tide. Indiana University Bloomington geologist Chen Zhu is trying to determine ...
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MMO2 Teams Up With DoCoMo to Bring i-mode to UK
mmO2 plc, a leading European mobile operator, and NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan's largest mobile communications provider, today signed a long-term strategic agreement under which O2 will launch the i-mode mobile internet service ...
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