5.1 MP3 Surround Set for Launch
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MP3, the world’s most popular audio compression format, goes multi-channel. Scientists and engineers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, who developed MP3 together with their colleagues from Thomson, ...
Molecular Chains Line Up to Form 'Protopolymer'
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A new chemical state, designated a "protopolymer," has been observed by Penn State researchers in chains of phenylene molecules on a crystalline copper surface at low temperature. Protopolymers form when monomers, ...
Student's Projects Win $100,000 in Siemens Westinghouse Competition
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Aaron Goldin of Encinitas, CA, Wins $100,000 Individual Prize; (Lucie) Yueqi Guo and Xianlin Li of Durham, NC, Win $100,000 Team Prize An invention that converts ocean wave energy into electricity and genetics research on ...
3G Phones, Bluethooth Devices: Are They Safe?
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Ground breaking research in understanding the characteristics of human skin at millimetric waveband (MMW) frequencies is being conducted at Cranfield University – academic partner to the Royal Military College of Science ...
'Invisible' Computing
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Computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have joined a consortium of mostly European scientists setting out to network together the billions of electronic devices in ...
Building Materials For Interplanetary Stations
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A new technology developed by Russian scientists with support of the International Science & Technology Center allows to produce antennas and telescope mirrors, walls and partitions for a space station, solar panels and even ...
Caltech computer scientists embed computation in a DNA crystal to create microscopic patterns
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In a demonstration that holds promise for future advances in nanotechnology, California Institute of Technology computer scientists have succeeded in building a DNA crystal that computes as it grows. As the computation proc ...
Huygens to begin its final journey to Titan
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One year after Mars Express’ arrival at Mars, the mighty rules of celestial mechanics have again set Christmas as the date for a major ESA event in deep space. At 1.25 billion km from Earth, after a 7-year jour ...
Magnetism does not cause paranormal experiences
Dec 07, 2004 |
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Previous research has shown that paranormal experiences can be achieved via electromagnetic stimulation of the temple lobe. Now scientists from Uppsala and Lund universities in Sweden are calling into question how the experiments ...
A Refrigerator Converts to a Freezer - and Vice Versa
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Siemens is making the separation of refrigeration and freezing functions a thing of the past: In the coolVario series appliances, the refrigerator-freezer combination can be turned into one big refrigerator ...
TI Unveils Integrated Power over Ethernet Solution with Four Independent Ports
Dec 07, 2004 |
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Building on innovation to enable the seamless sharing of power and data over the same Ethernet cable, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced a next-generation power management integrated circuit (IC) that simplifies ...
Cherry Murray wins prestigious George Pake Prize from American Physical Society
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Dec 07, 2004 |
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Dr. Cherry Murray, the newly appointed Deputy Director for Science & Technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been named the winner of the American Physical Society’s (APS) prestigious George ...
Does the lack of sleep make you fat?
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The recent rise in obesity may be partly due to the reduced amount of time we spend asleep, according to new research from the University of Bristol, UK. Dr Shahrad Taheri from Bristol University, and colleagues in the Uni ...
Major milestone in hydrogen research
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Ceramatec, Inc. of Salt Lake City are reporting a significant development in their efforts to help the nation advance ...
MyAy - Mobile Alarm System and Baby Phone in One Device
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Siemens is developing a mobile communications device that’s based on an unconventional approach: In contrast to a cell phone, the MyAy delivers the most benefit to its users when they aren’t carrying the device ...
