Purdue findings support earlier nuclear fusion experiments
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Researchers at Purdue University have new evidence supporting earlier findings by other scientists who designed an inexpensive "tabletop" device that uses sound waves to produce nuclear fusion reactions. ...
World's First Film Substrate-based Bendable Color Electronic Paper featuring Image Memory Function
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Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Fujitsu Frontech Limited, and Fujitsu Limited today announced their joint development of the world's first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory ...
Three satellites needed to bring out 'shy star'
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An international team of scientists has uncovered a rare type of neutron star so elusive that it took three satellites to identify it. The findings, made with ESA’s Integral satellite and two NASA satellites, rev ...
A rare bird? Genetic analysis says not so
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Efforts aimed at saving one of the world's rarest birds of prey from extinction may be too late, a genetic analysis by researchers at the University of Michigan and The Peregrine Fund suggests. The last rem ...
Superwind discovered spreading Star Dust across the Universe
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A team of astronomers, led by the University of Durham, has discovered the aftermath of a spectacular explosion in a galaxy 11.5 billion light years away. Their observations, reported today (14th July 2005) ...
Findings bolster link between birds and T. rex
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A recent analysis showing the presence of a very bird-like pulmonary, or lung, system in predatory dinosaurs provides more evidence of an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. First proposed in the ...
New Infrared Tool Measures Silicon Wafer Thickness
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In the last few years, semiconductor circuit features have shrunk to sub-100 nanometer dimensions, while the size of the thin silicon wafers that these circuits are constructed on has grown from 200 millimeters ...
Sandisk First to Offer 512-Mb microSD Card
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SanDisk Corporation today announced that the microSD specification, which is based on SanDisk's TransFlash card, has been officially adopted by the SD Card Association (SDA). The new microSD card is fully compatible with ...
NASA now better able to measure sea level
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NASA officials said they finally have the tools and expertise to understand the rate at which the world's sea level is changing.
Infineon Launches World's First Reference Design for Ultra Low-Cost Handsets Enabling Handsets with Production Cost Belo
Jul 13, 2005 |
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Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX) today announced sample availability of its first reference design for ultra-low-cost handsets. Using Infineon’s new ULC reference platform, which is based on a single-chip GSM solution, ...
Temperature Control Improves NIST X-ray Detector
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an improved experimental X-ray detector that could pave the way to a new generation of wide-range, high-resolution trace chemical analysis ...
Identifying the 'Signatures' of Protons in Water
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Free protons from acids associate with 1, 2 or 3 molecules of water and the structures can be identified by unique infrared laser spectrum signatures, according to a report in Science by Yale professor of chemistry Mark A ...
Temperature-sensitive Nanobrushes
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Electrically conducting polymer with temperature-dependent optical properties and water solubility The terms plastic and electrical current usually bring to mind such things as insulators or computer cases. It goes withou ...
ASML Introduces the Industry's Highest NA Immersion Tool for Volume Chip Production at 45 nm Node
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ASML Holding NV (ASML) today announced a new lithography system with the highest numerical aperture (NA) – 1.2 – in the semiconductor industry. The ASML TWINSCAN XT:1700i system is a 193 nm immersion scanner capable of volume ...
Scientists make landmark observations about weak force
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Experimenters at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have made vital new observations that illuminate the nature of the weak force.
