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 ...
The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
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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 -- ...
Nano World: Ultra-dense circuits
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Conventional electronics could in the future tap into the computational power of ultrahigh-density nanowire circuits via novel linking devices under development at university and corporate labs across the nation, experts ...
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 ...
Nanotech solar breakthrough will help spur viability of alternative energy
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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.
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 ...
Wireless World: Spychips invading privacy?
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Chips that track boxes on trucks and ships soon may be sophisticated enough to monitor every move of consumers, a controversial new book claims.
Pushing the limits of hard disk storage
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Just how much data can we cram onto a hard disk? In a paper appearing online today in Physical Review Letters, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Professor Harald Brune and his colleagues report what they believ ...
New unidirectional molecular rotor may lead to tiny sensors, pumps, switches
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A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first computer-generated model of a tiny, waterwheel-like molecular rotor that has been harnessed to rotate in one direction at different speeds in response to changes ...
Unique, ordered nanometer structures found
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Israeli researchers Thursday reported discovering nanometer-scale ordered structures -- a discovery that could change basic scientific understandings.
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.
Google Maps combines with Google Local
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Google Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., says it has combined its Google Maps service with Google Local, moving both out of beta, or testing, status.
Houston company seeks to accelerate superconducting capability with ORNL help
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An effort to transmit 150 times more electric power through long-length high-temperature superconductors as compared to conventional copper wire is the goal of a cooperative research and development agreement between the ...
Air quality in West going south
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Texas air, already bad, will get a tad worse and Midwest air may actually improve, says EPA study of global warming on U.S. regional air quality. By mid-century, air quality throughout the Western United States ...
Intelligent Robots To Be A Larger Part Of Space Exploration
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Meet Gromit and K-9. They are the two latest robots NASA is using to help improve space exploration. Although they may look similar to the robots already on Mars, Gromit and K-9 have much more complex, built-in intelligence. ...
