Archive: 01/13/2005
Titan still offers all possibilities for the Huygens probe landing
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 ...
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The simple truth: Animal development not as complicated as it seems
Shedding light upon evolution, a University of Houston professor studying cell lineages now finds surprising simplicity in the logic of animal development. Ricardo Azevedo, an assistant professor in the department of bio ...
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Asteroid Collisions May Account For Star’s Odd Appearance
The recent collision of two huge asteroids or tiny planets may be the cause of the mysterious lopsided appearance of the most famous of the universe’s planet-forming stars, a team of astronomers says. Relying on observations fro ...
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The Chip Printers - Integrated Circuits Made of Plastic
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 ...
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TI Battery Management IC Increases Battery Safety in Cell Phones
Texas Instruments today announced an intelligent battery management integrated circuit (IC) that easily identifies potentially unsafe batteries not approved by consumer electronics manufacturers for use in their devices. The ...
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Elpida's 'Super Self Refresh' Memory Achieves Industry's Lowest Self Refresh Current, Extending Battery Life
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 ...
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Fujitsu and Toray Develop World's First Environmentally-Friendly Large-Size Plastic Housing for Notebook PCs
Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd., and Toray Industries, Inc. today announced their joint development of the world's first large-size notebook PC plastic housing made of plant-based plastic with low environmental ...
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Dusting for Clues: Gemini Discovers Evidence for Recent Planet-Forming Collisions around Nearby Star
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 ...
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Organic molecules transport strongest spectral signature of interplanetary dust particles
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 ...
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Clusters of Aluminum Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements
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 ...
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Drought's Growing Reach: Study Points to Global Warming as Key Factor
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 ...
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In-Wall A/V Entertainment Solution: New Concept for Homes
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 ...
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Applied Materials and IMEC Collaborate to Develop 45nm Transistor Technologies
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 ...
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Vacant looks could be Eureka! moments
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. ...
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Deep Impact Launched; Comet is Waiting
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 ...
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