An environment-friendly rechargeable battery
Jun 09, 2005 |
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A high performance rechargeable NiZn battery offers a viable alternative to hazardous NiCd cells While researching a new rechargeable battery for electric scooters, French and Spanish partners in EUREKA project NITIN SCOOTER ...
Are gender differences predetermined?
Jun 09, 2005 |
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In the Vienna of 1924, Sigmund Freud wrote, "Anatomy is destiny." Fast-forward to the 21st century culture of genome-mapping, Web-surfing and gender-bending. How well, we might ask, is Freud's famous dictum holding up? When ...
A life-saving black box for cars
Jun 09, 2005 |
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A car that can automatically alert emergency services in the event of an accident, giving its precise location and the health status of occupants would save thousands of lives each year. Thanks to the work of AIDER such a ...
Click, Draw and Write on Air FogScreen
Jun 09, 2005 |
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Imagine a stand at a motor show featuring a new convertible. There’s a screen ‘hanging in the air’ with everything you expect on your PC desktop. You can click your way through all the new features of the ...
How the Brain Learns to See
Jun 09, 2005 |
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Most of us don’t have much trouble recognizing what we see. Whether it is a face in a crowd, a bird in a tree, or papers on a desk, our brains expertly distinguish the target from the clutter. It is a simple skill most of ...
Researcher Discovers Universe Building Block Evolution
Jun 09, 2005 |
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The building blocks of planets and the life on them are formed inside of stars and returned to space in the form of stardust. In a new study, a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher discovered the formation of this stardust ...
Researchers see electron waves in motion for first time
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Jun 09, 2005 |
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New imaging technique - a trillion times faster than conventional techniques - advances field of plasmonics, could lead to better semiconductors Both the ancient art of stained glass and the cutting-edge field of plasmonics r ...
Bad driving habits start early
Jun 09, 2005 |
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A new study will investigate whether children learn driving habits from their parents, years before they get behind the wheel.
Scientists warn of dramatic impact of climate change on Africa
Jun 09, 2005 |
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Scientists at the University of York are warning that dramatic changes may soon occur in Africa’s vegetation in response to global warming. They believe the effect may be on a similar scale to the climatic disruption in ...
Practice makes perfect - Gamers are made, not born
Jun 09, 2005 |
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Video games, which reveal disconnects between a set of young television addicts and their elders, could bridge a generation gap. While Mortal Combat, Grand Theft Auto, or Halo may be foreign to aging generations, ...
Ultra-fast Movies of the Sky
Jun 09, 2005 |
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British scientists have opened a new window on the Universe with the recent commissioning of the Visitor Instrument ULTRACAM on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. ...
Spectacular Day of the Comet
Jun 09, 2005 |
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After a voyage of 173 days and 268 million miles, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will get up-close-and-personal with comet Tempel 1 on July 4. The first of its kind, hyper-speed impact between space-borne ...
High-power high-brightness diode lasers
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Jun 09, 2005 |
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On the occasion of the laser trade fair "Laser 2005" in Munich, the Berlin-based research institution Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) presents novel high-power high-brightness diode lasers. These ...
World's fastest method for transmitting information in cell phones and computers
Jun 09, 2005 |
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Demonstrating breakneck signal speed of 10 gigahertz, method uses nanotubes instead of conventional copper wires UC Irvine scientists in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering have demonstrated for the first time that c ...
Mars Express discovers aurorae on Mars
Jun 09, 2005 |
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ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has for the first time ever detected an aurora on Mars. This aurora is of a type never previously observed in the Solar System.
