Clusters of Aluminum Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements
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A research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. The discovery opens the door ...
Elpida's 'Super Self Refresh' Memory Achieves Industry's Lowest Self Refresh Current, Extending Battery Life
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Self Refresh Current Reduced by 95 Percent versus Standard DDR SDRAM with No Performance Trade-off Elpida Memory, Inc (Elpida), Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today ...
The Chip Printers - Integrated Circuits Made of Plastic
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The PolyIC company has taken a giant step toward realizing the mass production of RFID chips made of plastic: The developers have created the world’s fastest (600 kilohertz) integrated circuit made of organic ma ...
New image sensor will show what the eyes see, and a camera cannot
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Researchers are developing new technologies that may give robots the visual-sensing edge they need to monitor dimly lit airports, pilot vehicles in extreme weather and direct unmanned combat vehicles. The researchers int ...
Hubble finds infant stars in neighbouring galaxy
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Hubble astronomers have uncovered, for the first time, a population of infant stars in the Milky Way satellite galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, visible to the naked eye in the southern constellation Tucana), located 210,000 light-years away. ...
Drought's Growing Reach: Study Points to Global Warming as Key Factor
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The percentage of Earth's land area stricken by serious drought more than doubled from the 1970s to the early 2000s, according to a new analysis by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research ...
Play Multimedia On A TV With LaCie silverscreen Hard Drive
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LaCie premieres the LaCie silverscreen, a portable USB hard drive with the ability to plug directly into multi-standard television sets for instant playback of stored movies, music or photos. LaCie silverscreen ...
Applied Materials and IMEC Collaborate to Develop 45nm Transistor Technologies
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Applied Materials, Inc. and IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics and nanotechnology research center, are working together to develop 45nm-generation transistor-level semiconductor processing technologies. Since this collaboration is targe ...
Titan still offers all possibilities for the Huygens probe landing
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The prospect of the Huygens probe landing on a hard, soft or liquid surface when it lands on Titan on Friday still remain following further analysis of data taken during the Cassini mother ship's closest encounter ...
In-Wall A/V Entertainment Solution: New Concept for Homes
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Designed for the way consumers live today, Sony Electronics is introducing two in-wall, home entertainment products for builders developing new homes. The CDP-NW10 in-wall audio system and DVP-NW50 in-wall hom ...
A Morse code for human cells
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Morse code is a simple, effective and clear method of communication and now scientists believe that cells in our body may also be using patterns of signals to switch genes on and off. The discovery may have major implications ...
Deep Impact Launched; Comet is Waiting
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NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft began its 431 million kilometer (268 million mile) journey to comet Tempel 1 today at 1:47:08 p.m. EST. Data received from the spacecraft indicate it has deployed and locked its solar pa ...
Vacant looks could be Eureka! moments
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Nearly 20 percent of American adults say they think most creatively in their cars, according to the 2005 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index study, which gauges Americans' attitudes toward invention and innovation. ...
Organic molecules transport strongest spectral signature of interplanetary dust particles
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Carbon and silicate grains in interplanetary dust particles are helping scientists solve a 40-year-old astronomical mystery. A collaborative team of researchers has discovered what turns the lights out fro ...
Dusting for Clues: Gemini Discovers Evidence for Recent Planet-Forming Collisions around Nearby Star
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Astronomers using the Gemini South 8-meter telescope in Chile have observed new details in the dusty disk surrounding the nearby star Beta Pictoris which show that a large collision between planetary-sized bodies ...
