IBM 3D TV
Nov 11, 2005 |
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International Business Machines, a worldwide leader in technology innovation, has announced a new and affordable 3D video system that works with normal DLP (Digital Light Processing) televisions. Before now, ...
Could a large tsunami ever hit the United States?
Nov 11, 2005 |
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This question gained currency after the catastrophic Sumatran earthquake and tsunami of December 2004. Nine months later interest in tsunamis was all but washed away by the deadly Gulf Coast hurricanes, Katrina and Rita.
Fluids race through nearly frictionless carbon nanotubes
Nov 11, 2005 |
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Within the cells of our bodies, fluids flow rapidly through miniscule, nearly frictionless, protein channels. Until now, human-made nanoscale structures have not been able to mimic those same speeds because ...
Article Examines a Disputed Einstein Paper
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Nov 11, 2005 |
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Apparently, even Einstein wasn't always an "Einstein." A University of Arkansas professor's article relates physicist Albert Einstein's reaction to a negative critique on a paper he had written on gravitational ...
Lunar Lawn Mower
Nov 11, 2005 |
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Scientists are brainstorming ways to put troublesome moondust to good use. "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em," goes a cliché that essentially means "figure out how to live with whatever you can't get rid of. ...
Study: Europeans are of hunter ancestry
Nov 11, 2005 |
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A DNA study suggests Europeans owe their ancestry mainly to Stone Age hunters, not to later migrants who brought farming to Europe from the Middle East. ...
Scientists to Test Toxicity of Nanomaterials
Nov 11, 2005 |
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Materials science is getting small – on the order of the atomic scale. Fibers, spheres, crystals and films 1,000 times thinner than human hair hold the promise of producing faster cars and planes, more powerful ...
Bird flu may over-stimulate immune system
Nov 11, 2005 |
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Researchers in Hong Kong say the H5N1 bird flu virus may provoke an excessive immune reaction, explaining why it is deadly even to the young and healthy.
Africa's 'Giant Eye' opened
Nov 11, 2005 |
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The southern hemisphere's largest telescope was officially unveiled yesterday by the South African President Thabo Mbeki in Sutherland, a small town 400km north of Cape Town, South Africa. The Southern African ...
Central Europe getting warmer
Nov 11, 2005 |
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Surface temperature analysis of Central Europe shows that temperatures there have risen three times faster than the Northern Hemisphere land average.
Edmond Fitzgerald sinking recreated
Nov 11, 2005 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists say they've created a simulation of the 1975 Lake Superior storm that sank the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald.
Scientists teach worms to learn
Nov 11, 2005 |
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Worms, like people, tend to avoid foods that have made them sick in the past. By coaxing worms to select only healthy choices from a menu of bacteria, Rockefeller scientists show that one brain chemical, serotonin, ...
From Mississippi to Wyoming, Plants Once Danced to Fast-Changing Climate Tune
Nov 11, 2005 |
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Scientists have discovered the first fossil leaves from a period of rapid global warming 55 million years ago. The leaves tell a story about plants alive during that time: a fast-changing climate allowed southern-dwelling ...
India's telecom sees more liberalization
Nov 11, 2005 |
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In a fresh dose of liberalization, India yesterday announced a slew of relaxations in its telecom rules, which not only allows more players -- both local and foreign -- to enter the country's burgeoning telecom sector, but ...
Court Judgement is no Carte-Blanche for DoSsers
Nov 11, 2005 |
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There is a great deal of uncertainty about the legal implications of a recent court ruling that a denial of service (DoS) e-mail attack did not constitute a crime under UK law. So does this ruling mean that people who maliciously ...
