Fujitsu Pioneers Use of Carbon Nanotubes for Heatsinks for Semiconductors
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Fujitsu today announced that they have succeeded in the world's first development of carbon nanotube-based heatsinks for semiconductor chips. The use of carbon nanotubes as heatsinks for high-frequency high ...
New nanosensor uses quantum dots to detect DNA
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Using tiny semiconductor crystals, biological probes and a laser, Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a new method of finding specific sequences of DNA by making them light up beneath a microscope.
Study: Temperate Forests Could Worsen Global Warming
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Growing a forest might sound like a good idea to combat global warming, since trees draw carbon dioxide from the air and release cool water from their leaves. But they also absorb sunlight, warming the air ...
Astronomers Find Most Stable Optical Clock In Heavens
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After 31 years of tracking the light- output of a burnt-out star from telescopes at McDonald Observatory, astronomer S.O. Kepler of Brazil's Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, and a slew of University of Texas colleagues ...
India And Russia To Sign Four Treaties On Defence And Space
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Taking their strategic partnership to a new high, India and Russia will sign four key agreements on space and defence cooperation during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-day visit beginning on Sunday.
Distinct Brain Regions Specialized For Faces And Bodies
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Are you tempted to trade in last year's digital camera for a newer model with even more megapixels? Researchers who make images of the human brain have the same obsession with increasing their pixel count, which increases ...
Study: Southern Louisiana is sinking
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A Louisiana State University scientist says southern Louisiana is sinking and restoring flooded marshes to protect the state's Gulf coast is futile.
Ancient sediments show influence of southern ocean circulation on climate
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About 34 million years ago, the Earth's climate transitioned from a "greenhouse climate" to the "icehouse climate" of today, forming a massive ice sheet on the Antarctic continent. A new study by Linda Anderson, an ocean ...
Researchers discover methods to find 'needles in haystack' in data
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Dec 05, 2005 |
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A Case Western Reserve University research team from physics and statistics has recently created innovative statistical techniques that improve the chances of detecting a signal in large data sets. The new techniques can ...
Space saving approach to satellite communications
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Ken Teo and his team at the University of Cambridge have come up with a much more efficient and compact way to send signals from satellites. They have managed to use an array of carbon nanotubes to create a ...
Intel inside India with $1B investment
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Just a few days after rival Advanced Micro Devices announced its plans to grab a chunk of the Indian mindshare by helping India build a $3 billion chip plant, Intel Chairman Crag Barrett announced the company's first major ...
NEC's Breakthrough to Enhance Functionality of Sub-10nm Transistors
Dec 05, 2005 |
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NEC today announced the development of new breakthrough device technology for low-power, high performance system LSI. Based on the ultimate scaling of conventional bulk planar MOSFETs, the new technology is capable of improving ...
A century after 1906 earthquake, geophysicists revisit 'Big One' and come up with new model
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Almost a century after the 1906 earthquake, Stanford geophysicists have revisited San Francisco's ''Big One'' and now paint a new picture of a fault that was ready to go and that ruptured farther and faster than previously ...
Dog 'laugh' silences other dogs
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Washington state researchers report discovering what might be the sound of dog laughter. The scientists say the long, loud pant they recorded has a calming or soothing effect on the behavior of other dogs, ABC News reported.
Hynix Develops World’s Fastest and Highest Density Graphics Memory
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. today announced the availability of the world’s first 512 Megabit GDDR4 DRAM, the DRAM industry’s fastest and highest density graphics memory.
