Archive: 04/14/2006
In Brief: mixipix offers new animation messaging
The U.K. company mixipix launched Friday a new mobile messaging system that will allow consumers to send animated cartoons instead of text or static pictures.
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In Brief: Yahoo! names new senior VP for research
Yahoo! named Qi Lu as senior vice president of engineering for research and search marketing.
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Quantum dots self-tune their color for ultra-efficient nano lasers
The laser, one of the most valuable scientific instruments, is getting smaller and more efficient. Scientists have designed a miniature laser, whose nanoscale dimensions and low optical losses will be instrumental ...
Apr 14, 2006 |
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Microfluidic Device Tests Fluid Compatibility
The key to a great party is inviting guests who mix well and don't instill tension among their fellow revelers. The key to a great detergent, cosmetic, paint or other complex liquid product is pretty much the ...
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Science experiments teach kids to think
A three-year program in Wisconsin's schools is developing new ways to teach science and critical thinking in kindergarten through 12th grade.
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Qualcomm, DOJ $1.8M settlement
Qualcomm Inc. and Flarion Technologies Inc. agreed to the pay a $1.8 million settlement in civil penalties in a suit filed by the Department of Justice, the companies announced Thursday.
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Bitter Truth: Humans, Chimps Developed Ability to Taste Toxic Compounds Through Separate Genetic Mutations
Humans and chimpanzees share the ability to taste, or not taste, a bitter synthetic compound called PTC—as well as numerous other sour and toxic substances—but contrary to longstanding scientific thought, they developed that ...
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Could Reducing Global Dimming Mean a Hotter, Dryer World?
Despite concerns over global warming, scientists have discovered something that may have actually limited the impact of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in recent years by reducing the amount of sunlight ...
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Parts of Caribbean and Central America Likely to Have Less Summer Rain
Parts of the Caribbean and Central America are likely to experience a significant summer drying trend by the middle of this century, UCLA atmospheric scientists will report in the April 18 issue of Proceedings of the National Ac ...
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Plans Announced For North America's First Commercial Mobile WIMAX Deployment
At the annual CTIA WIRELESS 2006 trade show in Las Vegas, Samsung Telecommunications America unveiled its plans to work with regional service provider Arialink to deploy the first commercial Mobile WiMAX network ...
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Elpida Verifies the Physical Phenomena of Defect Repair Technology on a Microscopic Level
Elpida Memory announced recently that it has successfully developed defect repair technology that leads to dramatic improvement of data retention, and has also identified the physical phenomena that dominate DRAM retention ...
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New NASA 'Tool Set' Will Simplify Engineers' Efforts to Better Analyze Space Travel Concepts
It's a complicated process -- analyzing potential missions to other planets. Yet the highly technical task may go more smoothly in the future, thanks to a new set of NASA software tools.
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China reports successful face transplant
Doctors in China performed a 14-hour transplant surgery on a 30-year-old man to replace his face, which was mauled by a bear two years ago.
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Argonne researchers find 217 new targets for anti-cancer drugs
By identifying novel genes critical to cancer progression, biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have expanded the number of drug targets researchers have available for study ...
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Carbon cycle was already disrupted millions of years ago
Dutch researcher Yvonne van Breugel analysed rocks from seabeds millions of years old. Carbon occurs naturally in two stable forms; atomic mass 12 (99 percent) and atomic mass 13 (1 percent). Episodes in the Jurassic and ...
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