Hurricanes, other vortices seize energy via 'hostile takeovers'
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For decades, scientists who study hurricanes, whirlpools and other large fluid vortices have puzzled over precisely how these vast swirling masses of gas or liquid sustain themselves. How do they acquire the ...
Nanoparticles create biocompatible capsules
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An innovative strategy of mixing lipids and nanoparticles to produce new drug and agricultural materials and delivery vehicles has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Hotmail banks on speed for better service
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It's free and available worldwide, but Hotmail isn't known for its speedy access. What's more, if you're a dialup internet user, particularly in a developing country, the situation is worse. But the seemingly ...
Russian Space Industry Still Optimistic And Creative
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Russia's Federal Space Program for 2006-2015 includes government allocations for a series of light spacecraft, so technologically advanced that, at two- to three-digit weights in kilos, they successfully do what 20 years ...
Mars Rover Team Plays It Safes With Spirit
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NASA's Spirit recorded this view while approaching the northwestern edge of the formation Mars Exploration Rover mission controllers have named Home Plate, a circular plateau-like area of bright, layered outcrop ...
AT&T's BellSouth buyout plan worries many
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While some industry analysts worry that AT&T's eyes may have become bigger than its stomach in bidding for BellSouth, consumer groups fear that the deal will only lead to bigger profits for the telecommunications ...
Researchers find ways heat-loving microbes create energy
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Curiosity about the microbial world drove Jan Amend, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, to Vulcano Island, Italy, a shallow ...
System may transform hiring, online dating
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A University of Calgary professor says he's designed a computerized unified selection process that promises to revolutionize the world of human resources.
The World’s Fastest Measurements of Molecular Vibrations
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When atoms or molecules are subject to a short, intense laser pulse, they emit high-frequency ultraviolet radiation. If you compare the spectra of isotopes that are of different masses but otherwise similar, ...
It’s not just a game, dude
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The video game industry lost more than $1.8 billion to global piracy through illegal copying, counterfeiting, and distributing in 2004. In latest issue of IBM Systems Journal researchers present two novel approaches for game ...
Atomic bomb, space scientist Rudoff dies
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Hyman Rudoff, who worked on the Manhattan Project and helped develop the heat shields for the Mercury and Gemini space capsules, has died in California. He was 93.
TI develops line of zero-drift amplifiers
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Texas Instruments has developed a line of zero-drift amplifiers targeted at the consumer and precision-device markets.
Smallest Triceratops skull described
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A cast of a foot-long skull from the youngest Triceratops dinosaur every discovered is now on display at the University of California-Berkeley.
Cosmic collisions, past and future, shown
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A scientifically correct, 20-minute, $3 million science show called "Cosmic Collisions" opens March 18 at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
Briefs: Primus launches Australia VoIP service
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Australia's Primus Telecom launched a broadband Voice over Internet Protocol service that offers a flat rate of 10 cents per call.
