Explosions in Space May Have Initiated Ancient Extinction on Earth
Apr 06, 2005 |
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Scientists at NASA and the University of Kansas say that a mass extinction on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago could have been triggered by a star explosion called a gamma-ray burst. The scientists do not have direct ...
Discovery Captures, Converts Heat
Apr 06, 2005 |
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Your car's engine loses 70 percent of its energy as waste heat-but Australian and Oregon scientists may have figured out an efficient way not only to recover that lost energy, but to at long last capture the power-producing ...
New IBM ThinkPad X41
Apr 06, 2005 |
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Building on trends in biometric adoption, identity verification costs and government compliance, IBM today announced the ThinkPad X41 ultraportable notebook -- its lightest and smallest ThinkPad with a built-in ...
First PCs based on Intel Dual Core Processor Systems Appeared
Apr 06, 2005 |
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Velocity Micro, a leading North American manufacturer of high performance PCs, announced recently that it has partnered with Intel to introduce a new line of systems based on Intel's new dual core processor ...
X-ray blaze on an invisible world
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Apr 06, 2005 |
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With laser-precise x-ray vision, the Linac Coherent Light Source will be an unprecedented tool to see how ultra-fast, ultra-small things work The way that a horse trots intrigued Leland Stanford. After a ter ...
Clever 'Clocky' Combats Oversleeping
Apr 06, 2005 |
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A relatively simple product designed to combat a common problem is turning Media Arts and Science graduate student Gauri Nanda into a celebrity. Working to solve the main cause of oversleeping - the snooze bar ...
How people trick themselves into overspending
Apr 06, 2005 |
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It's tax-time. For many people that means handing some hard-earned money over to Uncle Sam, but for many others tax time is refund time. Theoretically, that refund is money you've earned as a part of your salary, and should ...
Radar tracking reveals that butterflies follow decisive flight paths
Apr 06, 2005 |
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The charming meanderings of butterflies are not as random as they appear, according to new research. Scientists at Rothamsted Research, a research institute sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences ...
Study finds Earth's auroras are not mirror images
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Thanks to observations from the ground and satellites in space, scientists know that the North and South Poles light up at night with Auroras because a "solar wind" of electrified gas continually flows outward ...
NASA Extended Mars Rovers Mission for Third Time
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NASA has approved up to 18 more months of operations for Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars rovers that have already surprised engineers and scientists by continuing active exploration for more than 14 months. ...
Era of galaxy and black hole growth spurt discovered
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Distant galaxies undergoing intense bursts of star formation have been shown by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to be fertile growing grounds for the largest black holes in the Universe. Collisions between galaxies in the ...
Nanobacteria in clouds could spread disease, scientists claim
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'Micro-organisms could also prompt rainfall' Micro-organisms in clouds could play a crucial role in the spread of disease and in the formation of rain drops, scientists have claimed. The radical theories about nanobacter ...
At the molecular level, the predator is the prey
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An evolutionary arms race between predatory garter snakes and their newt quarry is turning out to be something of an illusion. At the molecular level, another battle rages. And in this second, miniature realm, ...
IBM Supercomputer Used for Crash Simulations and Virtual Product Development at Volvo
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Today, IBM announced that it has been selected by Volvo Car Corporation to build a powerful supercomputer to perform critical automobile crash simulations. IBM will provide both hardware and services to help increase the ...
Increasing Memory Capacity on Limited Space
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Infineon Technologies AG, demonstrating its leadership as memory supplier, today announced new high-density memory products for notebook computer and graphics applications, designed to help system manufacturers ...
