Sumatra earthquake three times larger than originally thought
Feb 08, 2005 |
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Northwestern University seismologists have determined that the Dec. 26 Sumatra earthquake that set off a deadly tsunami throughout the Indian Ocean was three times larger than originally thought, making it the ...
Mini Helicopter Thinks for Itself
Feb 08, 2005 |
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one step closer to someday matching — and possibly surpassing — their human-piloted counterparts, thanks to the completion of a project successfully tested by Georgia Tech ...
New twist on spin hall effect
Feb 08, 2005 |
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An international team of physicists that includes a Texas A&M University professor has announced discovery of a new spintronic effect in semiconductor chips, the intrinsic spin Hall effect, which puts a new twist on future ...
Smallest Extra-Solar Planet Yet Discovered
Feb 08, 2005 |
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Penn State's Alex Wolszczan, the discoverer in 1992 of the first planets ever found outside our solar system, now has discovered with Caltech's Maciej Konacki the smallest planet yet detected,in that same far-away planetary ...
2-Bit-per-Cell 256-Mbit NOR Flash Memory for 3G Mobile Phone Market
Feb 08, 2005 |
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STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world's largest suppliers of NOR Flash devices across a broad range of applications, today announced a 256-Mbit NOR Flash memory chip that uses a well-established 2-bit/cell architecture ...
Antarctic "Telescopes" Look for Cosmic Rays
Feb 08, 2005 |
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Working in the harsh conditions of Antarctica, Maryland researchers are creating new ways of detecting cosmic rays, high energy particles that bombard the Earth from beyond our solar system.
IBM Announces POWER5 Server for Entry-Level Unix Segment
Feb 08, 2005 |
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IBM today announced it will offer the latest in a new series of aggressively priced IBM POWER5(TM) processor-based servers. The new IBM eServer(TM) p5 510 is designed to bring impressive POWER5 performance and advanced virtualization ...
8-Gigabit NAND Flash Memory Chip With 70 nm Process Technology
Feb 08, 2005 |
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Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced an 8-gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory chip fabricated with 70-nanometer (nm) process technology that ushers in the new era of gigabyte chips: 1-gigabyte ...
Memory research sheds light on why older adults 'accentuate the positive'
Feb 08, 2005 |
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Age-related differences appear to affect the way adults make and remember their choices in life, suggesting that older adults “accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative in their memories,” according to research published ...
Fujitsu Develops Multi-core Processor enabling HDTV image processing through software
Feb 08, 2005 |
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Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd. today announced the development of a single-chip multi-core processor designed for image processing use in high-performance digital consumer products, that is equipped with four FR-V processor co ...
Self-assembled nano-sized probes allow to see tumors through flesh and skin
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Nano-sized particles embedded with bright, light-emitting molecules have enabled researchers to visualize a tumor more than one centimeter below the skin surface using only infrared light. A team of chemists, bioengineers ...
Green light for deployment of ESA's Mars Express radar
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The European Space Agency has given the green light for the MARSIS radar on board its Mars Express spacecraft to be deployed during the first week of May. Assuming that this operation is successful, the radar will finally ...
Sensor of plastic can be produced in a printing press
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Electrochemical transistors made of plastic open myriad possibilities. Since both electrons and ions are active, they can function as a bridge between traditional electronics and biological systems. A new dissertation from ...
Mobeon Teams with Sun to Drive Innovation and Open-Standards for IP Messaging Services
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Sun Microsystems, Inc., , the creator of Java technology, and Mobeon AB, one of the world’s leading suppliers of private labelled telecom messaging software, today announced an agreement that will drive innovation for the ...
Panasonic Rolls Out New LUMIX Digital Still Cameras
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Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, today introduced three new models in its LUMIX digital still camera series, the 5.0-megapixel DMC-FZ5, the dry cell operable ...
