Archive: 05/12/2005
Nanotechnology Product for Car Windshields Now Available in the USA
Nanotec Pty Ltd based in Sydney, Australia announced today that the first innovative partner company is offering Nanoprotect ® Automotive Glass in the USA. Windshield Welding Systems in Woodbridge, VA USA is offering the ...
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Mice Brains Shrink During Winter, Impairing Some Learning And Memory
The brains of one species of mouse actually shrink during the winter, causing the mice to have more difficulty with some types of learning, a new study found. The results showed that, during the short days of winter, white-footed ...
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Cassini-Huygens observations show how Titan compares with the Earth
Observations of Titan’s atmosphere offer a unique look at how Saturn’s giant moon compares to Earth. Titan is the only moon in the solar system with a substantial atmosphere. Like Earth, Titan’s atmosphere ...
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Industry's Smallest Strobe Control IGBTs for Mobile Phone Cameras
Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the CY25CAH-8F (2.5 V drive) and CY25CAJ-8F (4.0 V drive) strobe control IGBTs for mobile phone cameras, featuring the industry's smallest size of 3.0 mm x 4.8 mm and 0.95 mm (max.) ...
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AWACSS Hunts Hormones and Pesticides in Drinking Water
Siemens has developed a new portable analysis system for detecting harmful substances in bodies of water. As reported in the latest issue of the company’s research magazine "Pictures of the Future", the suitcase-sized ...
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Atmosphere may cleanse itself better than previously thought
A research team from Purdue University and the University of California, San Diego has found that the Earth’s atmosphere may be more effective at cleansing itself of smog and other damaging hydrocarbons than was once thought.
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NIST Demonstrates Key Step in Use of Quantum Computers for Code-Breaking
A crucial step in a procedure that could enable future quantum computers to break today’s most commonly used encryption codes has been demonstrated by physicists at the U.S. Commerce Department’s National ...
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New ‘Nuclear Battery’ Runs 10 Years, 10 Times More Powerful
A battery with a lifespan measured in decades is in development at the University of Rochester, as scientists demonstrate a new fabrication method that in its roughest form is already 10 times more efficient than current ...
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Oak Ridge Associated Universities funds research to develop conductive ceramic materials
Peizhen Kathy Lu, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities to advance her research ...
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Researchers reveal secrets of snake flight
It seems size does matters after all. But for flying snakes, smaller is better, according to University of Chicago researchers. In the May 15, 2005, issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology, scientists described the ...
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Saving virtual lives with nanobots goal of UH-led project
Building and controlling a team of nanobots to seek and destroy infected tissue within a simulated terminally ill patient, a University of Houston computer science student and his teammate have advanced to the 2005 Microsoft ...
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Industry Leaders Join Effort to Improve Mobile Web User Experience
Today, at the WWW2005 Conference, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) - an endeavor to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access ...
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Sony's new notebooks go beyond hotspots with WWAN
Sony's new wireless notebooks break the boundaries of wired connections and hotspots. The ultra-portable VAIO T-Series is the first widely available notebook PC with integrated high-speed wireless wide area ...
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Microsoft Releases Windows Mobile 5.0
In a packed hall of developers and industry partners at Microsoft® Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005, Microsoft Corp.'s annual mobile and embedded developers conference, Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft, ...
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New X-ray device using carbon nanotubes
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a UNC start-up company, Xintek, Inc., have invented a new X-ray device based on carbon nanotubes that emits a scanning X-ray beam composed of multiple ...
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