Efficient Particulate Filter Cuts Truck and Car Emissions

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New filters from the Siemens company Emitec remove as much as 80 percent of particulates from the exhaust gases produced by trucks. This represents a significant reduction of the pollutant emissions from this source. In addition ...


Virtual Voices

Virtual Voices

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Wearable Captioning System to Make Public Venues Accessible to People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, the voices of actors, teachers, sports announcers and clergy ...


Signatures of the first stars

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A primitive star with extremely low iron content has been discovered by an international research team from Sweden, Japan, Germany, USA, Australia and Great Britain. This indicates the original composition of the gas from ...


First Wacom Wireless Pen Tablet For Photo Enthusiasts

First Wacom Wireless Pen Tablet For Photo Enthusiasts

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Wacom Technology today announced the newest member of its Graphire pen tablet family and the first Wacom pen tablet to incorporate Bluetooth wireless technology. The new model, named Graphire Bluetooth, is ...


Image above: The DART spacecraft is on its way to catch up with the MUBLCOM satellite. Image Credit: NASA

DART Launch Successful

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA’s Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) spacecraft successfully launched today at 1:25 p.m. EDT (10:25 a.m. PDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., beginning a 24-hour mission ...


Researchers propose center to develop future chip-cooling technologies

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Purdue University are collaborating with several other universities in proposing a new center to design technologies that will be needed in coming decades to cool advanced computer chips. "The bottom line is ...


NASA Puts Space Shuttle External Tank to the Test

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA engineers and managers are evaluating the data from today's Space Shuttle Discovery External Tank (ET) tanking test at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The tanking test was yet another milestone in NASA's efforts to ...


UC Berkeley-USC project to study 'digital kids'

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A University of California, Berkeley, professor is spearheading a team just awarded $3.3 million to study "digital kids." "It will be exciting to investigate kids' innovative knowledge cultures, and how they learn using dig ...


New Station Crew Launches from Baikonur

New Space Station Crew Launched from Baikonur

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The International Space Station Expedition 11 crew -- Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and Astronaut John Phillips -- launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:46 pm EDT Thursday, right on schedule. ...


Scientists model physics of stellar burning

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A University of California scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory working with astronomers from around the world recently validated a computer model that predicts the rebirth and stellar burning and mixing processes ...


Physicists demonstrate quantum mechanical nature of heat flow

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One of the hallmarks of quantum mechanics -- the laws of physics that apply on very small scales -- is the wave nature exhibited by sub-atomic particles such as electrons. An electron presented with two paths to a destination ...


SMART-1 search for lunar peaks of eternal light

SMART-1 search for lunar peaks of eternal light

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ESA’s SMART-1 mission to the Moon has been monitoring the illumination of lunar poles since the beginning of 2005, about two months before arriving at its final science orbit. Ever since, the AMIE on-board cam ...


Novel Ion Optics Design Ensures High Sensitivity And Mass Resolution For 3D Atom Probe

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created Apr 15, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The combination of the high mass-resolution reflectron lens and a patented, three pair delay line detector brings exceptional sensitivity to the 3-Dimensional Atom Probe (3DAP) from Oxford nanoScience Ltd. This unique combination ...



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