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Self-cleaning 'Smart' Fabrics Capable of Environmental Toxin Remediation

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory's Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering (CBMSE) have developed a new cost-effective, self-decontaminating ultrathin materials coating that actively destroys ...

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Cingular and HP Launch HP iPAQ Pocket PC

Includes Three-Way Wireless Capabilities via Nation's Largest Digital Wireless Voice and Data Network, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Wireless Technology Cingular Wireless and HP today introduced the first integrated ...

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Toshiba Introduces L-Flat Rectifier Diode Packaging Designed To Save Space In Electronic Equipment

First Diodes in L-Flat series support current ratings up to 10 Amps while reducing mounting area by 50 percent Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. today announced the availability of its new L-Flat surface mount ...

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Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution

Nitrogen oxides produced by huge fires and fossil fuel combustion are a major component of air pollution. They are the primary ingredients in ground-level ozone, a pollutant harmful to human health and vegetation. But new ...

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A Nanomaterial in 3-D

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Central Michigan University, and Michigan State University have determined the three-dimensional molecular structure of a material ...

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Applied Materials Unlocks the Future of Defect Inspection with Breakthrough UVision System

Applied Materials, Inc. revolutionizes defect inspection with its innovative Applied UVision system, the semiconductor industry's first laser 3D brightfield inspection tool. The UVision system targets chipmakers' vital need ...

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Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

At its Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple officially announced plans to deliver models of its Macintosh computers using Intel microprocessors by this time next year, and to transition all of its Macs to using Intel ...

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TDK Announces 100GB Blue Laser Disc Technology

TDK has developed a prototype recordable Blu-ray Disc with revolutionary 100GB capacity. By far the most advanced optical media ever developed, the prototype 100GB bare Blu-ray Disc doubles both the capacity and recording ...

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Mickey Welcomes ASIMO To Disneyland's 50th Anniversary

Mickey Mouse welcomed ASIMO to a new home in the Honda ASIMO Theater, inside Disneyland park. Guests visiting the popular Innoventions attraction at the park can now see ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative ...

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Opportunity Rover Escapes From Sand Trap

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission engineers and managers cheered when images from the Martian surface confirmed Opportunity successfully escaped from a sand trap. From about 108 million miles away, the ...

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Who's Creative in Genetics & Nanotechnology?

Survey Seeks Top Scientists for a Study of Research Innovation Who's doing the most innovative and important research in the fields of human genetics and nanotechnology? A team of U.S. and European researchers will be a ...

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Magma Developing 65-nm Quartz DRC Runset for IBM Processes

Magma Design Automation Inc., a provider of semiconductor design software, today announced that IBM has been evaluating Quartz DRC Design Rule Files for its 90- and 65-nanometer foundry processes. Quartz DRC is a key component ...

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ARM Artisan Low Power IP Offered By IBM, Chartered To Support 65-nm Common Platform

ARM today announced a collaboration with IBM and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing that makes available the ARM Artisan Metro low-power platform for the IBM-Chartered 65-nanometer low-power common process platform. The ...

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World-first technology enables study of ancient bacteria

Sustainable energy source could solve Bermuda Triangle riddle Experts at Cardiff University, UK, have designed world-first technology to investigate sustainable energy sources from the ocean bed by isolating ancient hig ...

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IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer to create digital 3D model of the brain

IBM and The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are today announcing a major joint research initiative – nicknamed the Blue Brain Project – to take brain research to a new level. Over the next two years sci ...

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