Fusion scientist revives magnetic mirror machine with cool new idea
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Since the development of the hydrogen bomb in the ‘50s, scientists have speculated that the power of fusion might serve as a renewable energy resource. Research has revealed the challenges of this goal, and ...
Team Detects 'Top Quark,' a Basic Constituent of Matter
Dec 13, 2006 |
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A group of 50 international physicists, led by UC Riverside’s Ann Heinson, has detected for the first time a subatomic particle, the top quark, produced without the simultaneous production of its antimatter ...
Self-Assembling Nano-Ice Discovered; Structure Resembles DNA
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Working at the frontier between chemistry and physics, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Xiao Cheng Zeng usually finds his reward in discovering the unexpected through computer modeling.
Samsung Says 3D Silicon Will Drive Boundless Industry Growth in Unprecedented Era of Fusion Technology
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics today shared stunning prospects for a new industry-fusing technology era that will offer tremendous global opportunities for expanded use of three-dimensional (3D) silicon-based technologies. ...
Flexible electronics advance boosts performance, manufacturing
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Flexible electronics made with organic, or carbon-based, transistors could enable technologies such as low-cost sensors on product packaging and ''electronic paper'' displays as thin and floppy as a placemat. ...
Geologists finding a different Mars underneath
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Scientists are finding an older, craggier face of Mars buried beneath the surface, thanks to pioneering sounding radar co-sponsored by NASA aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft.
New observations on properties of water
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Experimental studies conducted by Ph.D. Anatoli Bogdan at the University of Helsinki, Finland, have received broad interest in the scientific world, as the results might have applications even in the cryopreservation of cells ...
Yes, Virginia, some snowflakes can look the same!
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Snowflakes are one of the most recognizable and endearing symbols of winter. Their intricate shapes have been the inspiration for Christmas ornaments, jewelry and U.S. postage stamps. They are the subject of song, scho ...
Plant a tree and save the Earth?
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Can planting a tree stop the sea level from rising, the ice caps from melting and hurricanes from intensifying?
Samsung Unveils New Powerhouse Fusion Memory Solution - OneDRAM
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced that it has developed a prototype fusion memory chip that can significantly increase the data processing speed between processors in mobile applications.
Spelling out cancer on the nanoscale
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Tumors start small and stay quiet, yet their intentions are clearly spelled out internally, if we could only read them. No matter how small, every tumor reveals its identity in tiny amounts of abnormally expressed proteins ...
AMD and IBM Detail Early Results Using Immersion and Ultra Low-K in 45nm Chips
Dec 13, 2006 |
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At the International Electron Device Meeting today, IBM and AMD presented papers describing the use of immersion lithography, ultra-low-K interconnect dielectrics, and multiple enhanced transistor strain techniques for application ...
Worms produce surprise insight into human fever
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Give or take a few dozen trillions, a human adult has about 70 trillion cells. An adult Caenorhabditis elegans roundworm has exactly 959 cells.
Stem Cells have Help to Renew Themselves
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Dec 13, 2006 |
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A small molecule makes stem cells able to reproduce and change. This simply structured moecule called SC1, which researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster and their colleagues ...
NASA Outlines Recent Changes in Earth's Freshwater Distribution
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Recent space observations of freshwater storage by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) are providing a new picture of how Earth's most precious natural resource is distributed globally and how it is changing.
