Global warming plus natural bacteria could release vast carbon deposits currently stored in Arctic soil
May 06, 2005 |
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Increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will make global temperatures rise. By studying soil cores from the Arctic, scientists have discovered that this rise in temperature stimulates the growth of microorganisms ...
Voting for online democracy
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The Internet may be used to power elections in towns, cities, countries, and even across Europe thanks to the work of a recently completed project. It would mean voters could cast their ballots at home, in the street via ...
Researchers Use Synchrotron to Shed Light on Cadmium's Role in Carbon Cycle
May 06, 2005 |
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An international team that includes two University of Saskatchewan Canada Research Chairs has discovered that the element cadmium, well known for its toxicity to humans and other animals, may play an essential role in regulating ...
Nanosys Announces Issued Patent Covering Fundamental Nanowire Heterostructures
May 06, 2005 |
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Nanosys have announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 6,882,051 (the '051 patent) entitled "Nanowires, nanostructures and devices fabricated therefrom," by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This patent, exclusively licensed ...
TSMC Qualifies Applied Materials' Gate Stack System for Its Leading-Edge 65nm Transistor Processes
May 06, 2005 |
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Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has qualified the Applied Centura Gate Stack system with DPN (decoupled plasma nitridation) technology for all of its 65nm-generation ...
Prospecting for oil, and life on Mars
May 06, 2005 |
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Techniques usually used to find oil and gas in the North Sea could help scientists establish whether life could survive on Mars The surface of Mars is covered with craters, caused by crashing meteorites. ...
Shake and stir to make granular materials change phases
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In an experiment originally planned for the International Space Station, physicists at Duke University have devised a controlled, measurable method to make a container of granules -- in this case plastic beads -- "freeze" ...
New study: Hell not as bad as we thought
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The very earliest years of Earth have long been presumed hot, violent and terrible – so much so that the era from 4.5 billion years to 4 billion years ago is known as the Hadean Eon, or Hellish time. However, a f ...
Movement of atoms viewed at 100 times higher than previous resolution
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A paper published in Nature (5 May 2005), by scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Warwick and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, describes how experts have used X-rays to see structures in unprecedented detail ...
Earth's reflectivity a great unknown in gauging climate change impacts
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Earth's climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it should be because data are ...
Wireless LAN brings PDAs back in first quarter of 2005
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Worldwide personal digital assistant (PDA) shipments totaled 3.4 million units in the first quarter of 2005, a 25 percent increase from the same period last year, according to Gartner, Inc. This was the st ...
Scientists Discover Pluto Kin Is a Member of Saturn Family
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Saturn's battered little moon Phoebe is an interloper to the Saturn system from the deep outer solar system, scientists have concluded. The new findings appear in the May 5 issue of the journal Nature.
The graphical 'Google' for engineers goes 3D
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The first commercial design retrieval system in the world that can find 2D engineering drawings from a sketch has now been extended to work with 3D CAD solid modelling environments. The new system is tightly integrated wit ...
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