Robots: our helpers in space
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A big advantage of space robots is that they need neither food nor drink and can support very inhospitable conditions. More important still, although expensive to design and produce, their loss is always preferable to that ...
Magma Delivers Third-Generation Routing Technology for Nanometer Designs
Dec 04, 2004 |
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Magma Design Automation Inc. today announced that NEC Electronics America, Inc. has successfully verified a multimillion-instance nanometer (nm) design using Version 4.2 of the Blast Fusion physical design system that incorporates ...
Saturn and Mimas on Nature's Canvas
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In a splendid portrait created by light and gravity, Saturn's lonely moon Mimas is seen against the cool, blue-streaked backdrop of Saturn's northern hemisphere. Delicate shadows cast by the rings arc gracefully ...
National Introduces Multi-Gigabit Analog Equalizer With Highest ESD Protection For High-Speed Ethernet, Storage
Dec 04, 2004 |
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Equalizer’s Low Noise, High Crosstalk Immunity Extends the Life of XAUI, Fibre Channel and ATCA Backplanes National Semiconductor Corporation today introduced a multi-gigabit analog equalizer that extends the reach of ...
Fujitsu and IBM Partner to Promote Open Standards for Autonomic Computing
Dec 04, 2004 |
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Fujitsu Limited and IBM today announced that they have agreed to collaborate on autonomic computing standards. Initial areas of collaboration are expected to include existing or new standardization efforts related to the ...
When Earth turned bad: New evidence supports terrestrial cause of end-permian mass extinction
Dec 04, 2004 |
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Two hundred and fifty million years ago, ninety percent of marine species disappeared and life on land suffered greatly during the world's largest mass extinction. The cause of this great dying has baffled scientists for ...
Tiny aircraft that just eat and go
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Aircraft the size of bees that get the energy they need by feeding themselves a diet of dead flies could be buzzing around the battlefields and motorways of the future, thanks to research in southwest England. ...
Silterra demonstrates functional 0.13-micron SRAM
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Working 8-megabit SRAM results from successful JDP with IMEC The Joint Development Project (JDP) between Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and IMEC, Europe’s leading independent nanoelectronics research center, has already r ...
Sony and Singulus Team Up on Blu-Ray Mass Production Targeting 2005
Dec 04, 2004 |
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SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES, the world’s leading system integrator of optical disc replication equipment, announced today that it will manufacture production equipment for pre-recorded Blu-ray Discs (BD-ROM). It has agreed with ...
MMO2 Teams Up With DoCoMo to Bring i-mode to UK
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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 ...
All Earth wants for Christmas? A sock for its coal
Dec 04, 2004 |
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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 ...
Perfect packaging
Dec 04, 2004 |
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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 ...
Very Large Telescope Takes Snapshots of Two Grand-Design Spiral Galaxies
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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 ...
NIST demonstrates data 'repair kit' for quantum computers
Dec 04, 2004 |
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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, ...
UU Research Pushing Back the Frontiers of Space
Dec 04, 2004 |
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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 ...
