Archive: 06/12/2007
Toshiba Develops New NAND Flash Technology
Toshiba Corporation today announced a new three dimensional memory cell array structure that enhances cell density and data capacity without relying on advances in process technology, and with minimal increase ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Guessing robots predict their environments, navigate better
Engineers at Purdue University are developing robots able to make "educated guesses" about what lies ahead as they traverse unfamiliar surroundings, reducing the amount of time it takes to successfully navigate ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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New theory aims to explain recent temperature, climate extremes
Using an ocean of data, sophisticated mathematical models and supercomputing resources, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are putting climate models to the test with particular focus ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Scientist Finds a New Way to the Center of the Earth
Humans have yet to see Earth's center, as did the characters in Jules Verne's science fiction classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth." But a new NASA study proposes a novel technique to pinpoint more ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Theory of Physics Explains Human Patterns
Why does a railway network look like a river? Why do the streets of old Rome look like a leaf? Because whether their shape is determined by the interactions of molecules or the choices made by individual humans, all of these ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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The woes of Kilimanjaro: Don't blame global warming
The "snows" of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro inspired the title of an iconic American short story, but now its dwindling icecap is being cited as proof for human-induced global warming.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Hidden Planet Pushes Star's Ring a Billion Miles Off-Center
A young star's strange elliptical ring of dust likely heralds the presence of an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet, says a University of Rochester astronomer in the latest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical So ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Invasive Cuban tree frogs threaten native wildlife, damage utilities
North Florida residents accustomed to tiny tree frogs may feel jumpy — a giant Cuban species has colonized half the state and is moving north, a University of Florida expert says.
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Jun 12, 2007 |
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Rescue Robot Tests To Offer Responders High-Tech Help
National Institute of Standards and Technology engineers are organizing the fourth in a series of Response Robot Evaluation Exercises for urban search and rescue (US&R) responders to be held on June 18-22, ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Study helps preserve Arctic whale, Eskimo subsistence hunt
Research on one of the oldest-living mammals - the bowhead whale - has helped preserve a primary food source for Eskimos in the far reaches of Alaska, and also may provide a useful tool for studying genetic ...
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Jun 12, 2007 |
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Tether Origami
NASA is joining a Japanese team in a space experiment that uses reverse origami to show the way to help keep satellites in their proper orbits, or to return spent rocket stages quickly to Earth.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Why an alerted person counts for two
It was already known that people respond faster when prepared. However Dutch researcher Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen has now unravelled the mechanism in the brain behind this phenomenon. Transmitting and receiving neurons synchronise ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Mathematical model improves reactor efficiency
During his PhD project at Eindhoven University of Technology, Dutch researcher Vinit Chilekar developed a mathematical model for the design of a so-called slurry bubble column. That is a reactor for large-scale chemical processes, ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Nokia N77 multimedia computer starts shipping
Finland is the first to experience optimized mobile TV with the Nokia N77 multimedia computer. Later this month also Vietnam and India will start shipments of the Nokia N77. Consumers will now be able to keep ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Fruit Bats are not 'Blind as a Bat'
The retinas of most mammals contain two types of photoreceptor cells, the cones for daylight vision and colour vision, and the more sensitive rods for night vision. Nocturnal bats were traditionally believed ...
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