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Tiny Enceladus May Hold Ingredients of Life

Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus is "absolutely a highlight" of the Cassini mission and should be targeted in future searches for life, Robert H. Brown of The University of Arizona, leader of the Cassini visual ...

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Renesas Releases Middleware for MPEG-4 and H.264 Compatible Hardware Accelerator

Capable of 720 x 480 pixel size encoding/decoding at 30 fps, facilitating development of high-image-quality moving image recording/playback applications Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the development of middle ...

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World’s leading display partnership between Philips and TPV starts up now

Philips Electronics and PV Technology Limited today announced that the transfer of certain activities within Philips' monitor and flat screen television business has become effective as of September 5, 2005. From this day ...

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Epson Develops Postcard-Sized Mini-Projector

Epson announced that it had succeeded in developing a prototype postcard-sized mini-projector using an LED light source. With a footprint of just 13.8 by 10.3 centimeters (just smaller than a sheet of A6 paper) ...

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Chemists perfect fast way to synthesize libraries of gold nanoparticles

Not all libraries contain books. In chemistry, the word library is used to refer to a collection of molecules. University of Oregon chemist Jim Hutchison's new way of rapidly generating libraries of tiny particles with great ...

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First Brazilian Astronaut To Join Russian Space Mission

The first Brazilian astronaut will go on a mission aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft next spring, a Russian space official said Friday, RIA Novosti has reported.

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Astronomers Discover Fastest Intergalactic Space Traveller

A speeding, superdense neutron star somehow got a powerful "kick" that is propelling it completely out of our Milky Way Galaxy into the cold vastness of intergalactic space.

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The Lure Of Europa

The discovery that Jupiter's moon Europa most likely has a cold, salty ocean beneath its frozen icy crust has put Europa on the short list of objects in our solar system that astrobiologists would like to study further.

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Deep-Sea Exploration Beneath Katrina's Wake

Despite having to evade hurricane Katrina, a team of scientists from Harbor Branch and other institutions is returning to port this Sunday with new tales from the deep after completing their second annual Deep Scope expedition. ...

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CCTV Launches High-Definition Digital Channel

Hangzhou viewers can enjoy high-definition television (HDTV) programs via a new movie channel launched by China Central Television (CCTV) beginning Thursday.

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Whales, seals used as ocean reporters

A Japanese university has begun attaching cameras and sensors to seals and whales as part of an investigation of the ocean environment.

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Russia, Canada To Use Space Technologies For Rescue In Arctic

Russia and Canada could use advanced space technologies to help conduct rescue operations in the Arctic region, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told RIA Novosti at a news conference Friday.

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