Archive: 04/06/2005
Explosions in Space May Have Initiated Ancient Extinction on Earth
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 ...
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X-ray blaze on an invisible world
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 ...
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Radar tracking reveals that butterflies follow decisive flight paths
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 ...
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Astronomers Expect To Be "Dazled" By Views Of Ancient Universe
For the last five years, a team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge and the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney, Australia, has been building a special instrument to search for the most distant ...
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Super RFID: UK company driving next-generation development
The call from RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) integrators for the next generation of technology, dubbed "Super RFID", has been answered by University of Leeds spinout company Instrumentel Ltd. While it has been pre ...
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How people trick themselves into overspending
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 ...
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Increasing Memory Capacity on Limited Space
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 ...
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IBM Supercomputer Used for Crash Simulations and Virtual Product Development at Volvo
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 ...
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New IBM ThinkPad X41
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 ...
Apr 06, 2005 |
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At the molecular level, the predator is the prey
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, ...
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Nanobacteria in clouds could spread disease, scientists claim
'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 ...
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Era of galaxy and black hole growth spurt discovered
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 ...
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Discovery Captures, Converts Heat
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 ...
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Clever 'Clocky' Combats Oversleeping
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 ...
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NASA Extended Mars Rovers Mission for Third Time
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. ...
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