Nanotech breakthrough aids quest for viable alternative energy sources
Nov 08, 2005 |
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At a time when oil prices are reaching record highs and people are bracing for winter heating bills, researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have made significant strides ...
Flash Memory Boom
Nov 08, 2005 |
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If you’re not familiar with flash memory, you should be. It’s poised to make a whole host of older technologies obsolete – all to your advantage. You probably own some and are not even aware of it. If you ...
Nanodevices Can 'Hear' Cancer
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Two engineering professors at the University of California, Riverside are developing devices 100,000 times thinner than a human hair, that can listen to cancerous cells, deliver chemotherapy to them and leave surrounding ...
Nano World: Power for soldiers, sat phones
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Nanotechnology-based power sources are expected to emerge in the next two years that could dramatically reduce the weight that soldiers carry and boost how long satellite phones can last, experts told UPI's Nano World.
What does 'almost nothing' weigh? FSU physicist aims to find out
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Nov 08, 2005 |
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If subatomic particles had personalities, neutrinos would be the ultimate wallflowers. One of the most basic particles of matter in the universe, they've been around for 14 billion years and permeate every inch of space, but ...
Finding Superconductors That Can Take the Heat
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By studying how superconductors interact with magnetic fields, Pitt researchers advance quest for higher-temperature superconducting materials. Superconductors are materials with no electrical resistance that are used to make ...
Physicist Proposes New Way to Rank Scientific Output
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Publications in peer-reviewed journals are the yardstick by which academic scientists compare their work with their colleagues. But is the best measure of a scientist’s worth the total number of his or her published papers? ...
NTT Develops Optical fiber Cord that can be easily bent, folded, and tied, and enables easy connections
Nov 08, 2005 |
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NTT Corp. has developed a revolutionary new optical fiber cord that offers a degree of freedom in cable installation that was considered impossible using conventional optical fiber. The new cable uses "Holey ...
Robotic assembly of fuel cells could hasten hydrogen economy
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Echoes of a "hydrogen economy" are reverberating across the country, but a number of roadblocks stand in the way. One of the biggest, experts say, is the high cost of manufacturing fuel cells. A new research ...
Spirit's 'Everest' Panorama
Nov 08, 2005 |
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If a human with perfect vision donned a spacesuit and stepped onto the martian surface, the view would be as clear as this sweeping panorama taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
Scientists Unravel Midwest Tornado Formation
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Although tornadoes are usually thought of as springtime storms that develop in early evenings out of isolated weather cells, the twister that touched down in Indiana in the middle of the night this past weekend ...
Device may revolutionize trucking industry
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Clarkson University has announced development of an experimental fuel-saving device that may help revolutionize the trucking industry.
The 'spread of our species'
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Modern humans arrival in South Asia may have led to demise of indigenous populations. In a major new development in human evolutionary studies, researchers from the University of Cambridge argue that the dispersal of m ...
Simulations Show Liquid Water Could Exist on Mars
Nov 08, 2005 |
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University of Arkansas researchers have become the first scientists to show that liquid water could exist for considerable times on the surface of Mars.
Who’s in first? Physicists develop new football ranking system
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Nov 08, 2005 |
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Physicists at the University of Michigan devised a new way to rank college football teams that is fast and can be easily understood by fans.
