Archive: 05/15/2006
Bill tackles so-called new piracy frontier
A new House bill seeks to further protect the music industry from piracy by limiting the ability to record digital radio broadcasts, singling out satellite radio industry competitors XM Radio and Sirius.
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Broadband seen feeling O2 heat soon
When it comes to phone services, European markets are often ahead of the curve, particularly when it comes to making the most out of mobile phones. Paying for parking or getting a drink from a vending machine via a mobile ...
May 15, 2006 |
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Carbon fullerenes now have metallic cousins, 'hollow golden cages'
Scientists have uncovered a class of gold atom clusters that are the first known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous hollow carbon fullerenes known as buckyballs. The evidence for what their discoverers ...
May 15, 2006 |
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Global warming may have damaged coral reefs forever
Global warming has had a more devastating effect on some of the world’s finest coral reefs than previously assumed, suggests the first report to show the long-term impact of sea temperature rise on reef coral ...
May 15, 2006 |
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Sandia-developed dielectric thin films enable low-breakdown voltage antifuses
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed an inexpensive, reliable and easy-to-manufacture class of dielectric films that have the capability of enabling programmable antifuses on integrated circuits (IC) ...
May 15, 2006 |
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BBC interviews cabbie on media policy
In a case of mistaken identity, a London cab driver was pulled into a BBC television studio for a live interview about the Internet music business.
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Spitzer Spies Remnants of a Shy Star
Big stars usually aren't shy about anything, not even death. At the end of their lives, they throw explosive tantrums, called supernovae, flinging abundant amounts of hot gas and radiation into space. Remnants ...
May 15, 2006 |
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Multifunctional Gold Nanoparticles Show Promise in Combination Therapy
Gold nanoparticles, which can turn light into intense heat, are showing significant promise as targeted nanoscale thermal scalpels capable of killing cancer cells without damaging healthy tissue. Two new reports now suggest ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 15, 2006 |
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Study explores why boys are falling behind girls in school
Thirty years ago, boys, not girls, were the high performers in schools. Today, test scores, grades and dropout rates show boys are achieving at levels far below girls, and an international study that includes the University ...
May 15, 2006 |
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Taking on a New Shape
“It is seldom that you see a new stable structure appearing spontaneously in a completely symmetric environment,” explains Tomas Bohr, a physicist at the Technical University of Denmark. “Usually you have to ...
May 15, 2006 |
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Redirecting Mouth of Mississippi River Proposed as Way to Save Louisiana Coast
Vince Neary, Tennessee Tech University associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, says such a bold, large-scale plan is necessary to stop the disappearance of the state's coastal wetlands — which act as natural ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 15, 2006 |
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English Coast Stays Abreast of Possible Perils of Global Warming
Shoreline to the northeast of London has dispelled some of the concern caused by research that predicts that sea levels have risen and will continue to rise to a degree that will threaten human and wildlife communities. Evidence ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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4 more historic ships found off R.I.
With four more hulks spotted, Rhode Island can boast it has the world's "largest fleet of Revolutionary shipwrecks," a maritime expert says.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 15, 2006 |
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Quantum Cryptography: Diamonds Offer New Online Security
Researchers at the University of Melbourne, Australia, have found a glamorous solution to the problem of communications systems being hacked by eavesdroppers -- diamonds. The School of Physics at the university has just secured ...
May 15, 2006 |
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Farmers may become much more tech savvy
Changes in U.S. livestock identification requirements might soon make it necessary for farms of all sizes to become much more technologically advanced.
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