Physicists invent plastic diode
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Ohio State University researchers have invented a new organic polymer tunnel diode – an electronic component that could one day lead to flexible, low power plastic computer memory and plastic logic circuits ...
Rapidly accelerating glaciers may increase how fast the sea level rises
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Satellite images show that, after decades of stability, a major glacier draining the Greenland ice sheet has dramatically increased its speed and retreated nearly five miles in recent years. These changes could contribute ...
Researchers approach quantum limit in third-order nonlinear light-light interaction
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Unprecedented nonlinear optical efficiency could make small organic molecules useful for optical computing, data processing and telecommunication. Researchers from Lehigh University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolo ...
Scientists find first evidence of a living memory trace
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An international team of scientists for the first time has detected a memory trace in a living animal after it has encountered a single, new stimulus. The research, done with honeybees sensing new odors, allows neuroscientists ...
Wastewater: Energy of the future?
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Professor Jurg Keller at Australia's University of Queensland said he and his colleagues have discovered how to turn wastewater into electricity.
Scientists discover how crops use the length of the day to decide when to flower
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Scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC) [1] in Norwich, UK, report today a breakthrough in understanding how crop plants use daylength to ensure they flower at the right time of year. In an article published in the international ...
Samsung Now Mass Producing First 90nm 512Mb Mobile DRAM
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Samsung Electronics announced that it has started to mass produce 512Mb DRAM (dynamic random access memory) for mobile products, using 90nm circuitry. This marks the first time that 512Mb mobile DRAM will ...
IBM Unleashes Next Generation Supercomputer
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IBM today offered clients a closer glimpse of the next generation p5-575 supercomputer with a pre-release version of the upgraded high-density POWER5+ processor-based server system that can be easily clustered for high performance ...
Lasers improve scientists’ understanding of complex proteins
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By shooting lasers at an RNA polymerase (RNAP) and a strand of DNA, scientists have learned a critical component of how a complex protein develops. Using a system called fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FR ...
IBM: World's most powerful computer
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The TOP500 Organization, which tracks high performance computing, Monday named an IBM supercomputing system as the world's most powerful supercomputer. IBM said its Blue Gene/L has an unprecedented sustained performance of ...
Freescale and Cadence partner to innovate semiconductor product design
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Freescale Semiconductor and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. have signed a multi-year agreement designed to help Freescale realize competitive advantages by boosting new product design efficiency and speeding the delivery of ...
Older consumers prefer emotional appeals
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UCLA and University of Pennsylvania scientists say their research indicates older consumers are more emotional. The researchers say additional emotion often causes susceptibility to misleading advertising. But in a study ...
Brands picked for narcissistic reasons
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French researchers say we pick certain brand names for an entirely narcissistic reason: they contain letters of the alphabet that are in our own name.
UK wind research blows away myths
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The most extensive study yet of the UK’s wind resource has found it to be the best in Europe, underlining its ability to make a significant contribution to our energy needs. The research, conducted by Oxf ...
U.S.: China must 'crack down' on piracy
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The Chinese government must "crack down" on piracy and enforce intellectual-property rights, the top U.S. trade official said Monday in Beijing.
