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JVC Develops World’s First Single-sided, Dual Layer DVD-RW Disc Technology

Newly Developed High Sensitive Recording Film and a New Writing Method "N-Strategy" to Enhance Erasability Produce Dual Layer DVD-RW Disc 8.5GB Disc for Up to 11 Hours of Video Recording Victor Company of Japan, Ltd ...

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mPhase to Report on Battery, Sensor Applications at Stephens Inc. 2005 Nanotechnology Investors Conference

mPhase Technologies Inc. today announced that Steve Simon, executive vice president of research and development, will report on the company's latest nanotechnology milestones at the Stephens Inc. 2005 Nanotechnology Investors ...

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Aviza, Air Liquide to Develop Advanced Films for Sub-90-nm Manufacturing

Aviza Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of production-proven thermal process systems and an industry innovator in atomic layer deposition (ALD), today announced the signing of a joint development agreement (JDA) between ...

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Engineers use 'shaped' laser pulses in 'ultra-wideband' research

Engineers at Purdue University have developed a technique that could result in more accurate "ultra-wideband" radio signals for ground-penetrating radar, radio communications and imaging systems designed to see through walls. The res ...

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UCSC to lead ambitious multidisciplinary research project on wireless communication networks

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are leading a major collaborative effort to develop the technology for complex wireless communication networks that can be set up in rapidly changing environments such ...

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A New Camera for Extrasolar Planets

It hasn't found planets yet—but in its first year of operation, the instrument has already proved its worth. For the better part of a year, an international team of astronomers has been working with a pow ...

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Industry's First Wireless USB-Enabled Digital Still Camera Development Platform

Staccato Communications, Inc. and Fujitsu Limited today announced their joint development of a wireless universal serial bus (USB) demonstration system comprised of Staccato's new Ripcord™ UWB Development Kit (SC3100D) and ...

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HP Offers Researchers a Bold New Choice with 11.8-teraflop Supercomputer

HP today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's new state-of-the art research supercomputer has completed a two-year acceptance process by the agency's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The product of ...

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Canadian Automobile Industry and Government Agree on Climate Change Action

A landmark agreement on climate change action was signed by the Government of Canada and the Canadian automobile industry today. Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), automobile manufacturers voluntarily agree to reduce ...

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Swift Mission Nabs Its First Distance Measurement to Star Explosion

The NASA-led Swift mission has measured the distance to two gamma-ray bursts -- back to back, from opposite parts of the sky -- and both were from over nine billion light years away, unleashed billions of years ...

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Rambus Unveils Micro-Threading in DRAM Cores

Delivers up to 4x Performance Improvement in 3D Graphics and Other Applications Rambus Inc., one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip interfaces, today unveiled an architect ...

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Chemical guidebook may help Mars rover track extraterrestrial life

To help a NASA rover eventually hunt for life on Mars, scientists are writing a chemical guidebook to aid the search for extraterrestrial life. Using new imaging tools and earthly parallels of ancient Mars environments, ...

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Mystery on the Hudson

Carbon exists in many forms in the air, soil, and water, and is an integral part of most living organisms. In a recent study, Stuart Findlay (Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York) discovered changes in the ...

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2004 Physics Nobel Laureate DNA Sells on eBay

MIT Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek and his wife, Betsy Devine, recently found themselves the subjects of an unusual eBay auction: Some enterprising students from a Swedish high school saved the glasses the two had sipped from ...

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Trust me, I'm a machine

An EU computer science project hopes to make the uncertainty attached to the pervasive computing future a lot more secure through establishing trust. Using the cost-benefit function at the heart of risk analysis, the IST ...

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