Archive: 04/13/2005
University of Chicago to study connections between religious beliefs and health
A belief in God may improve a person’s physical health, according to University of Chicago researchers who are launching the first comprehensive study to examine the relationship between religious attitudes and health.
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Physicists plan quark conference
Physicists from around the world will gather at Madison's Monona Terrace from Wednesday, April 27 - Sunday, May 1, to explore the world of quarks, subatomic particles that represent the frontier of modern particle physics. The mee ...
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TI Unveils High-Performance Power Supply Chip for Large Screen LCD Displays, TVs
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced today a high-performance power management integrated circuit (IC) that efficiently supports all four voltage requirements in a thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display ...
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Renesas Releases DC/DC Converter Power MOSFET Chip Set Achieving Industry's Highest Power Efficiency of 90 percent
Renesas Technology Corp. today announced a power MOSFET chip set, comprising a high-side(*1) RJK0305DPB and low-side(*1) RJK0301DPB, for DC-DC converters used in servers, notebook PCs, communication devices, and similar products.Sample ...
Apr 13, 2005 |
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5.1 Surround Sound for FM HD Radio at NAB 2005
Fraunhofer IIS, Telos, Omnia, Axia, Broadcast Electronics and Bose participate in world-premiere live demon-stration of non-matrixed 5.1 Surround Sound for FM HD Radio. Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and ...
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Helping human and robot firefighters work as a team
Imagine a firefighter scrambling through a burning building, searching for survivors of a devastating explosion. Injured people on the far side of a brick wall, but out of reach. However, the partner on the other side promptly ...
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Mystery solved: How the orbits of extrasolar planets became so eccentric
Except for the fact that we call it home, for centuries astronomers didn't have any particular reason to believe that our solar system was anything special in the universe. But, beginning with the discovery ...
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At least part of climate change is man-made
Bonn study shows: Since 1880 climate gases have caused just under half of global warming In the last 120 years the average global temperature has risen by 0.7 degrees. Over the same period the carbon dioxide concentration ...
Apr 13, 2005 |
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Smart plastics change shape with light
Picture a flower that opens when facing the sunlight. In work that mimics that sensitivity to light, an MIT engineer and German colleagues have created the first plastics that can be deformed and temporarily fixed in a second, ...
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Being too clean could be hazardous to your health and the environment
Researchers at Virginia Tech have discovered that the use of antimicrobial soaps and other products may unnecessarily be directly exposing consumers to significant quantities of chloroform. Peter Vikesland, assistant professor ...
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'Nanoshells' simultaneously detect and destroy cancerous cells
Researchers at Rice University in Texas have developed a new approach to fighting cancer, based on nanoscale particles that can both detect and destroy cancerous cells. The report appears in the April 13 issue of the American ...
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Breakthrough in stem cell research
In an Australian first, UNSW researchers have developed three clones of cells from existing human embryonic stem cells. The breakthrough could lead to new treatments for diabetes, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury. ...
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Now scientists think you'd be 'roasted' in a black hole
Contrary to established scientific thinking, you'd be roasted and not "spaghettified" if you stumbled into a supermassive black hole. New research being presented at the Institute of Physics conference Physics 2005 in Warwick ...
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Early Universe was packed with mini black holes
A research group at Cambridge think that the universe might once have been packed full of tiny black holes. Dr Martin Haehnelt, a researcher in the group led by Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, will present new evidence to support ...
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'Termite guts can save the planet', says Nobel laureate
The way termite guts process food could teach scientists how to produce pollution-free energy and help solve the world's imminent energy crisis. Speaking at the Institute of Physics conference Physics 2005 in Warwick today, ...
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