Wafer-Thin Color Displays for Packaging
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Color displays may one day be used practically everywhere. And this would be possible even where it’s unprofitable today for cost reasons, such as on food cartons, medicine packaging or admission tickets. At ...
Biggest recorded earthquake was brewing for four centuries
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The earthquake that rocked Chile in 1960 - at magnitude 9.5, the biggest ever recorded - was preceded by almost 400 years of accumulating stress, according to studies of the region's buried soils and sand. Strain had been ...
Nanotech solar breakthrough will help spur viability of alternative energy
Oct 07, 2005 |
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Researchers from New Mexico State University and Wake Forest University achieve 5.2 percent energy conversion with organic solar development. This means less expensive more durable solar panels available in four to five years.
World of Warcraft, VoIP and dating
Oct 07, 2005 |
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On a cool October night, Laura Bowser, 27, returns home from her post-work run to her modest town house. She soon finds herself flopped into a high-backed leather office chair poring over her Macintosh keyboard as she sends ...
Gold nanoparticles show potential for noninvasive cancer treatment
Oct 07, 2005 |
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Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and Georgia Institute of Technology have found a new way to kill cancer cells. Building on their previous work that used gold nanoparticles to detect cancer, they ...
Japanese Internet suicide clubs targeted by police
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Finding a soul mate is one of the great rewards of the Internet for many across the globe. Yet in Japan, cyberspace is also a convenient location for those trying to find someone to die with, as the country continues to grapple ...
The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Oct 07, 2005 |
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The 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday evening, October 6, at the 15th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. The Igs are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- ...
Dark Matter – One Mystery Solved (Update)
Oct 07, 2005 |
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Until recently cosmologists could not explain why elliptical galaxies did not appear to have dark matter haloes surrounding them, which is known to exist in other types of galaxies. Analyzing data from a simulation ...
Humidity sensor: hybrid nanoelectronics made from living bacteria and gold nanoparticles
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Living organisms as an integral part of electronic components? What may look like science fiction at first glance is actually a serious approach to the nanoelectronics of tomorrow. Living organisms could provide the required ...
Arctic Ocean waters warm suddenly
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Water flowing from the North Atlantic Ocean into the Arctic provides evidence that the Arctic Ocean is warming, according to U.S. and European researchers.
Switching on power line Internet connectivity
Oct 07, 2005 |
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One in five Europeans today enjoy broadband Internet access via competing technologies. Low-cost and fast data access over electricity network power lines is one such technology that is being extensively tested in four European ...
NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour Comes To Life
Oct 07, 2005 |
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Engineers cheered as electricity coursed through Space Shuttle Endeavour today for the first time in two years. The powering of Endeavour signaled the end of the orbiter's major modification period at NASA's Kennedy Space ...
Unlocking the organic composition of ancient asteroids
Oct 07, 2005 |
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New technology discovers primitive organic matter in 4.5 billion year old meteorites Meteorites contain fragments of asteroids brought about by collisions within the asteroid belt. These meteorites have not been exposed ...
Firms debut 100 Mbps broadband in Japan
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An industry consortium in Japan has unveiled technology capable of providing home broadband speed up to 100 megabits per second over existing cable.
U.S. Army Exhibits Successful Fuel Cell
Oct 07, 2005 |
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Hawaii's first successful fuel cell is buzzing along at the historic Schofield Barracks Fire Station. Installed by Logan Energy under a U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Construction Engineering Research Laboratory demonstration ...
