Archive: 12/13/2004
Shutdown of circulation pattern could be disastrous, researchers say
If global warming shuts down the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean, the result could be catastrophic climate change. The environmental effects, models indicate, depend upon whether the shutdown is reversible ...
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Scientists Link Greenhouse Gases to Insects and Trees
Insect control and tree planting could greatly affect Earth's greenhouse gases, according to NASA scientists. Greenhouse gasses are in Earth's atmosphere and warm the planet. The scientists presented their findings today dur ...
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TDK Launches WORM-type LTO Ultrium 3 Data Cartridge
TDK Corporation has developed the D2406W-LTO3, a WORM-type (Write Once Read Many) LTO Ultrium 3 data cartridge for the LTO (Linear Tape-Open) Ultrium format. The new product will go on sale in Japan from December 15. Last mon ...
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Tunable Windows To Keep Office Secrets
Secrets that zip across offices through wireless computing networks all too easily also zip through office windows into the hands of competitors – now researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a method of producing ...
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Turbulent and Colourful LMC Region Imaged from La Silla
The Tarantula Nebula is one of the most impressive views in the Southern sky. Visible to the unaided eye in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way that is located in the direction ...
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MMCmicro - New Samsung's Tiny Removable Memory Cards for Mobile Phones
Samsung announced today that it has developed an extremely small, low-power multimedia memory card (MMC) for mobile phones. The Samsung MMCmicro memory card has been designed to overcome a major hurdle in cell phone design ...
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Historic Himalayan ice dams created huge lakes, mammoth floods
Ice dams across the deepest gorge on Earth created some of the highest-elevation lakes in history. New research shows the most recent of these lakes, in the Himalaya Mountains of Tibet, broke through its ice ...
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New research: Women like women more than men like men
Even though men are often perceived to be at the top, especially in the corporate world, new gender research from Purdue University shows that men are not generally the preferred gender. This new research shows that when adu ...
Dec 13, 2004 |
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U. of Colorado research team discovers life in Rock Glacier
A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered evidence of microbial activity in a rock glacier high above tree line in the Rocky Mountains, a barren environment previously thought to be devoid ...
Dec 13, 2004 |
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Method removes MTBE from water
A researcher has discovered an effective way to remove a troubling new pollutant from our nation's water sources. Pratim Biswas, The Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science and director of ...
Dec 13, 2004 |
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Mass of the top quark and global warming consequences among year's Top 100 discoveries
Findings of two research projects involving University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists were named among the 100 most important discoveries and developments in science in 2004 by Discover magazine. Each year, Discover sel ...
Dec 13, 2004 |
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NEC Implements Leading-Edge 90nm Vector Supercomputer Chipset with Cadence Encounter
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that technology giant NEC Corp. used the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform to develop the complete 90-nanometer chipset for one of the world's fastest vector supercomputers. With Enc ...
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IMEC reports record in tall triple-gate device SRAM cell for 45nm node
At today’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, IMEC, Europe’s largest independent nanoeelctronics and nanotechnology research center, announced that it had achieved the smallest triple-gate device SRA ...
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Infineon Launches Wireless Industry's Fastest and Most Energy Efficient Bluetooth Chips
The state-of-the-art BlueMoon chip supports the new Enhanced Data Rate Protocol and triples data rate Infineon Technologies AG today announced availability of the BlueMoon UniCellular chip - its newest, state-of-the-art inte ...
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Researchers Develop Efficient Organic Solar Cell
As the price of energy continues to rise, businesses are looking to renewable energy for cheaper sources of power. Making electricity from the most plentiful of these sources - the sun - can be expensive due ...
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