IBM Announces New CMOS Image Sensor Foundry Offering

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IBM today announced the availability of technology and manufacturing services for complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors for use in camera-phones, digital still cameras and other consumer products. The ...


Milestone Reached In Construction Of Discovery Channel Telescope

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Lowell Observatory and Discovery Communications broke ground yesterday on the versatile, 4.2-meter Discovery Channel Telescope.


Illinois governor takes stem cell stance

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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has sidestepped his state's Legislature and committed $10 million to stem cell research by executive order.


U.N.: Effects of bio-tech trees not known

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The United Nations says research into the effects of genetically modified trees is inconclusive despite potentially vast applications in the forestry industry.


Intel's legal woes unlikely to hurt bottom line

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Intel's legal woes continue to mount, but despite the antitrust charges facing the world's largest chipmaker across three continents, most analysts do not expect the company to lose its top spot any time soon.


Sides agree on DTV transition requirement

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Television and cable-industry insiders have told Congress they are firmly committed to Dec. 31, 2008, as the cutoff date to end TV analog broadcasts, but the two groups are wrangling over a proposed digital must-carry rule ...


Comet Tempel 1 Went Back to Sleep

Comet Tempel 1 Went Back to Sleep

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Astronomers Having Used ESO Telescopes Start Analysing Unique Dataset on the Comet Following the Deep Impact Mission Ten days after part of the Deep Impact spacecraft plunged onto Comet Tempel 1 with the aim ...


An artist's impression of the Cluster quartet

Cluster spacecraft reach greatest separation at fifth anniversary

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The four spacecraft of ESA’s Cluster fleet have reached their greatest distance from each other in the course of their mission to study Earth’s magnetosphere in three dimensions.


Scientists determine how SARS kills

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Scientists reportedly have developed a therapy to decrease the extraordinarily high death rate associated with the SARS virus.


New Sub-Millimetre Light in the Desert

New Sub-Millimetre Light in the Desert

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The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) project has just passed another major milestone by successfully commissioning its new technology 12-m telescope, located on the 5100m high Chajnantor plateau in the ...


Finding rough spot in surface measurement

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For makers of computers, disk drives and other sophisticated technologies, a guiding principle is the smoother the surfaces of chips and other components, the better these devices and the products, themselves, will function.


Nanoscale systems for early diagnosis

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A partnership of scientists from the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, Washington University in St. Louis and UC Berkeley have been awarded $12.5 million to develop nanoscale agents to provide early diagnosis and ...


Extreme Science

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Since living conditions in other parts of our solar system are proving to be extreme, scientists searching for extraterrestrial life need to know something about creatures that can survive such conditions. Fortunately, they ...


Online service to offer movies before DVD

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Revelations Entertainment, an independent Hollywood movie distributor, has formed a new online movie service called ClickStar, which will offer a limited selection of downloadable movies before they are released on DVD.


Geologists Use Particles from Galaxy's Far Reaches to Understand Processes at Earth's Surface

Geologists Use Particles from Galaxy's Far Reaches to Understand Processes at Earth's Surface

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Scientists at the U.S. National Science Foundation and the European Commission of the European Union have announced a new initiative - called CRONUS, for cosmic-ray produced nuclide systematics - to measure ...




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