From Dinosaurs to Birds: Researchers Derive Lessons about Human Evolution from Chicken Genome
Dec 09, 2004 |
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Experts in bioinformatics at the University of California, San Diego have co-authored with other scientists the first large-scale comparison of mammal and bird genomes, published in the December 9 edition of ...
Artist/scientist 'dream team' assembles with goal of capturing and displaying gigapixel-sized images
Dec 09, 2004 |
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An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the "dream team" of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing ...
Space scientist proposes new model for Jupiter's core
Dec 09, 2004 |
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After eleven months of politics, now it's time for some real "core values" - not those of the candidates but those of the great gas giant planet, Jupiter. Katharina Lodders, Ph.D., Washington University in ...
New Lithium Ion Batteries With Industry's Highest Level of Energy Density
Dec 09, 2004 |
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Sony Corporation announces the new line-up of lithium ion batteries, with industry's highest level of energy density, responding to the needs for high capacity and large current in secondary batteries for mob ...
Physicists Discover Potential Way to Store Memory in Ferroelectric Nanodisks and Nanorods
Dec 09, 2004 |
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University of Arkansas physicists have discovered a new phase in tiny nanodisks and nanorods that potentially may enable researchers to increase memory storage by more than one thousand fold. This finding also opens a new ...
Researchers discover direct link between agricultural runoff and massive algal blooms in the sea
Dec 09, 2004 |
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Scientists have found the first direct evidence linking large-scale coastal farming to massive blooms of marine algae that are potentially harmful to ocean life and fisheries. Researchers from Stanford University's School of ...
Scientists Invent High-speed Digital Memory Device Using Commodity Plastics Transformed by Nanotechnology
Dec 09, 2004 |
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A team of scientists at UCLA has developed and built a plastic, non-volatile memory device using solution processing. In a paper appearing Nov. 28 online in the journal Nature Materials, the researchers outline how they d ...
Panasonic Introduces 3-Megapixel Camera Module for the Mobile Terminal Market
Dec 09, 2004 |
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Industry's thinnest 8.63 mm module incorporates auto-focus and image-stabilizer Panasonic SC Device Solutions Co., Ltd. (PSCDS), a subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., today announced the d ...
Ice study could stop people slip-sliding away
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Dec 09, 2004 |
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Going out and about in freezing conditions could become safer thanks to fundamental research at the University of Edinburgh into how we slip on ice. Using funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Res ...
Electric energy security, savings goals of power electronics research
Dec 09, 2004 |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a four-year, $12.5 million funding renewal for the Virginia Tech-based Center for Power Electronics (CPES), a university/industry coalition working to help resolve the nation's ...
Sophistication in stainless steel - Nokia 6170
Dec 09, 2004 |
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Tired of giving ties? In time for the holiday shopping season, the Nokia 6170 camera phone offers holiday shoppers - and Santa Claus(es) - an imaginative gift idea this year. The Nokia 6170 is a stylish tri-band ...
High pressure work boosts scramjet research
Dec 09, 2004 |
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University of Queensland rocket scientists have upgraded a key ground test facility ahead of three experimental scramjet flights in Woomera in late 2005. HyShot international program leader Professor Allan Paull said the ...
New Spam Tactics and Top Ten Viruses for 2004
Dec 09, 2004 |
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New Viruses Increased By Over 50% Over 2003; North America Accounts for Nearly 48% of All Spam Sophos, a global leader in anti-virus, anti-spam and policy-based network security, reports today that the top th ...
Research icebreaker ‘Polarstern’ drifting in Antarctic ice
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Since November 27, an ice floe has served as home as well as working place for 55 scientists from 11 nations. The research icebreaker ‘Polarstern’ of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research ...
AMD Drives Future Of Formula One Technology
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AMD Opteron Processor-Powered Supercomputer helps propel F1 team's CFD, aerodynamics and simulations past competitors Using technology provided by AMD, Formula One team Sauber Petronas today launched its new supercomputer ...
