Scientists solve mystery of Meteor Crater's missing melted rocks
Mar 09, 2005 |
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Scientists have discovered why there isn't much impact-melted rock at Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. The iron meteorite that blasted out Meteor Crater almost 50,000 years ago was traveling much slower than has been ass ...
NEC's High-End 21.3-Inch LCD with RGB LED Back-Light Technology
Mar 09, 2005 |
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NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd. today announced that sample shipments of its new 21.3-inch, ultra-extended graphics array (UXGA), amorphous silicon thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) module, ...
Researchers Develop Clear Picture Of 'Birth' Of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Mar 09, 2005 |
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University of Arkansas researchers have witnessed the birth of a quantum dot and learned more about how such atomic islands form and grow, using the ultrahigh vacuum facility on campus. This information will help researchers ...
Sony's 400-Disk HDMI DVD/SA-CD Changer
Mar 09, 2005 |
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Sony today introduced three HDMI up-scaling DVD players including a 400-disc changer The DVP-CX995V 400-disc DVD/Super-Audio CD (SA-CD) changer up-scales video to high definition (1080i/720p) resolution and transm ...
Oldest Fossil Protein Sequenced
Mar 09, 2005 |
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Protein sequence from Neanderthal extracted and sequenced An international team, led by researchers at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, ...
Charles Townes wins 2005 Templeton Prize
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Mar 09, 2005 |
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Charles Townes, the Nobel laureate whose inventions include the maser and laser and who has spent decades as a leading advocate for the convergence of science and religion, has won the 2005 Templeton Prize. The prize, valued ...
Researchers find where musical memories are stored in the brain
Mar 09, 2005 |
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A group of Dartmouth researchers has learned that the brain's auditory cortex, the part that handles information from your ears, holds on to musical memories. In a study titled "Sound of silence activates auditory cortex" pub ...
Robotic Arm Bested by High Schooler
Mar 09, 2005 |
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High school senior Panna Felsen arm wrestles an artificial arm built by a group of students at Virginia Tech (read more here). It's one of three arms she defeated on March 8 during an international compet ...
First time 1,000 channel WDM transmission demonstration in an installed optical fiber
Mar 09, 2005 |
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126 km-span transmission trial on the JGN II testbed Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has successfully demonstrated 1,000 wavelength channel WDM (*1) transmission in an installed optical fiber for the ...
Nokia Demonstrates IP Multimedia Applications Over CDMA 2000 Network
Mar 09, 2005 |
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Nokia announced it successfully demonstrated live IP multimedia applications based on its 3GPP2/3GPP-compliant IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) over a commercial CDMA 2000 network. Nokia is the first company to complete this ...
Stars Have a Weight Limit
Mar 09, 2005 |
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Astronomers have taken an important step toward establishing an upper limit to the masses of stars. Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, they made the first direct measurement within our Milky Way Galaxy, ...
The future of mobility
Mar 09, 2005 |
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Nokia showcases latest 3G, multimedia and enterprise innovations at CeBIT 2005 During the CeBIT 2005 show, Nokia reinforced its vision of mobility with its latest innovations for 3G WCDMA, multimedia and enterp ...
AMD Announces Broad Vendor Support For Upcoming Dual-Core Solutions
Mar 09, 2005 |
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AMD today announced that the industry's leading operating system vendors are preparing their respective operating systems to support the upcoming introduction of AMD64 dual-core products. All the leading operating systems cur ...
A 2,000-year-old secret is out
Mar 09, 2005 |
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A beauty product with a difference will be put to the test in a unique experiment at Bristol University later this month. A 2,000-year-old Roman cosmetic, discovered in an archaeological site in London, will be recreated ...
NASA Finds Lightning Clears Safe Zone in Earth's Radiation Belt
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Lightning in clouds, only a few miles above the ground, clears a safe zone in the radiation belts thousands of miles above the Earth, according to NASA-funded researchers. The unexpected result resolves a forty-year-old ...
