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Boeing Delta 4 Launch Postponed

Sunday's launch attempt of the Boeing Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral, Fla., was scrubbed for the third day because of equipment problems. During securing activities following Saturday's launch attempt, the ...

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Global Warming May Leed to Coral Reefs Grow

Coral reefs around the world could expand in size by up to a third in response to increased ocean warming and the greenhouse effect, according to Australian scientists. About 100,000 species living in and around ...

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Sony And Nvidia Jointly Developing a GPU for Next-Generation Entertainment Systems

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) and NVIDIA Corporation today announced that the companies have been collaborating on bringing advanced graphics technology and computer entertainment technology to SCEI's highly anticipated ...

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Infineon Achieves Breakthrough in DRAM Trench Technology

Infineon Technologies AG presented a highly manufacturable 70nm process technology for future DRAM generations that is based on deep trench (DT) cells on 300mm wafers at the 2004 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting ...

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Sun Unveils Next Generation Client Technology

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today unveiled its next generation Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 an interoperable, platform that enables instant, secure access to corporate applications and data from broadband-enabled ...

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NASA Set to Launch First Comet Impact Probe

Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned January liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. The mission is designed for a six-month, one-way, ...

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Samsung And Sony To Share Patent Portofolios

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Corporation have signed a Cross-License Agreement on December 14, detailing mutual usage of patent portfolios owned by the two companies. ...

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Researchers control chemical reactions one molecule at a time

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside showed that L. P. Hammett’s 1937 prediction of the strength of different acids is directly transferable to the activation of individual molecules on metal surfaces using ...

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Google to Index Major Libraries

As part of its effort to make offline information searchable online, Google Inc. today announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well ...

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New class of airborne particles unaccounted for in climate models

Dry dust reacts with air pollutants to form dewy particles whose sunlight-reflecting and cloud-altering properties are unaccounted for in atmospheric models. "Calcite-containing dust particles blow into the ...

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Pulsar gives insight on ultra dense matter and magnetic fields

A long look at a young pulsar with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed unexpectedly rapid cooling, which suggests that it contains much denser matter than previously expected. The pulsar's cool temperature and the vast ...

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A new unidentified very high energy gamma-ray source in our Galaxy

A European team based in Heidelberg (Germany) and their colleagues from the HEGRA collaboration have discovered a new, unidentified, very high energy gamma-ray source in our Galaxy. This source was detected ...

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Two Boeing X-45A Unmanned Jets Continue Coordinated Flights

Two military jets flying together may seem routine, but when they are pilotless, tail-less aircraft, routine goes out the window and science fiction springs to mind. Boeing continued to turn science fiction ...

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