Archive: 12/06/2005
UK researchers find way to reduce power consumption of transistors in computer chips
University of Kentucky researchers have discovered a means of reducing gate leakage current of transistors in computer chips that will permit chip producers to continue developing more efficient and powerful chips with reduced ...
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Scientists try to clone Alzheimer's pig
A team of Tjele, Denmark, scientists is trying to clone pigs that are suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
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Scientists seek clear-sky definition of clouds
All through the ages, humans have dreamily gazed at those shape-shifting cotton-balls floating gently across the sky-the clouds. Atmospheric scientists-Earth's professional cloud-gazers-have learned a great ...
Dec 06, 2005 |
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Unmanned submersible sheds light on an undersea volcano
Rock samples collected last year show surprising variation in the chemistry of an undersea volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge near Seattle. The variation comes from the mantle, the source of the magma that erupted from the ...
Dec 06, 2005 |
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Researchers assess rates and risks of gambling
More than 80 percent of the U.S. population gambles at some time in their lives. It might be the lottery, bingo or poker. Most never need treatment for problem gambling, but others lose control and lose their houses or cars ...
Dec 06, 2005 |
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Java Mobile Phones Find the Way – New Mobile Navigation
Java-enabled mobile phones are becoming mobile pathfinders. VDO Dayton has become the first supplier to launch a navigation system for cell phones that feature the widely used programming language Java. Navigation ...
Dec 06, 2005 |
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NASA gives Gravity Probe B team scientific achievement award
The Gravity Probe B (GP-B) science mission team—approximately 100 researchers and support staff—received a group achievement award from NASA on Nov. 30. At a ceremony on campus, each person received an individual certific ...
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Geophysicists reveal new insights into the 'earthquake machine'
The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD)—the first underground observatory to provide physical samples and real-time seismological data from deep inside an active fault zone—is yielding surprising new clues about ...
Dec 06, 2005 |
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Panasonic Starts Pilot Production Of 50-Gigabyte Blu-Ray Discs
Panasonic has modified its existing pilot production line for single-layer Blu-ray Discs, called BD-ROM, so that it is able to replicate dual-layer BD-ROM discs with 50 gigabytes of storage capacity. The new ...
Dec 06, 2005 |
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SPPS traces atoms from solid to liquid
When a snowball melts, you can tell it has achieved a liquid state when the frigid water drips through your fingers. But if you could follow the melting process, driven by the heat of your hand, from its very ...
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Dec 06, 2005 |
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ASML Impacts Industry Roadmap with Immersion and EUV Achievements for 45 nm and Beyond
ASML Holding NV today announced significant progress towards development of both high NA immersion and Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) lithography technology: two critical elements of the semiconductor industry’s ability to continue ...
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Researchers confirm lead as cause of Beethoven's illness
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found massive amounts of lead in bone fragments belonging to 19th Century composer Ludwig von Beethoven, confirming the cause of his years of ...
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Dec 06, 2005 |
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Applied Materials Announces Advanced CVD Aluminum Technology
Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its Applied CVD Al process chamber for building current and next-generation high-density interconnects in Flash and DRAM memory chips. Using aluminum deposition technology, which continues ...
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AMD, IBM Unveil New, Higher Performance, More Power Efficient 65nm Process Technologies
In papers presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in Washington, D.C., IBM and AMD today detailed their progress in bringing new, advanced semiconductor process technologies and materials to the 65 ...
Dec 06, 2005 |
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Male water fleas observed for first time
University of Buffalo researchers say they have observed the first male water fleas scientists have ever seen.
Dec 06, 2005 |
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