Archive: 05/16/2005
Stegosaur plates and spikes for looks only, researchers say
The bizarre plates and spikes that lined the backbones of the long-extinct stegosaurs were probably extreme examples of the often elaborate and colorful displays developed by animals to recognize fellow members ...
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Samsung Announces New Diagnostic Software to Reduce Design Time for Nano-class ICs
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, has developed new diagnostic software for nano-class semiconductor products . The new diagnostic software ESCORT (Estimation of Chip Performance ...
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Researchers find way to produce very large diamonds very fast
Washington, D.C. Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory have learned to produce 10-carat, half-inch thick single-crystal diamonds at rapid growth rates (100 micrometers per hour) ...
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NEC's World's First Security Configuration Analyzing System Enables Automatic Detection of Network Security Problems
NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in the development of a security configuration analyzing system that enables automatic detection of security problems through collection and analysis of configuration ...
May 16, 2005 |
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Opportunity Begins Careful Rollout
Opportunity rotated its wheels on sol 463 for the first time since the rover dug itself into a sand dune more than two weeks earlier. The wheels made about two and a half rotations, as commanded, and the results ...
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Station, Shuttle Mission Crew Announced
NASA and its international partners have named new crew members for upcoming missions to the International Space Station (ISS). U.S. astronaut William S. McArthur, Jr. and Russian Cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev will serve on ...
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Nextel and Motorola Announce the Motorola i275 Camera Phone
Nextel Communications and Motorola Inc. today announced the Motorola i275, a camera phone that offers many ways for customers to communicate and express themselves, all in an easy-to-use and compact design. ...
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Micron Demonstrates Leading Imaging Technology with Industry's First 1.7-Micron Pixel CMOS Sensor
Micron Technology, Inc., today publicly demonstrated functionality of the industry’s first 1.7-micron (µm) pixel image sensor at Imaging Sensor 2005, a technical symposium organized by Nikkei Electronics in Tokyo, Japan.
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Global wind map identifies wind power potential
A new global wind power map has quantified global wind power and may help planners place turbines in locations that can maximize power from the winds and provide widely available low-cost energy. After analyzing more than ...
May 16, 2005 |
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Deep Impact correction maneuver successful
Fifty-nine days before going head-to-head with comet Tempel 1, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft successfully executed the second trajectory correction maneuver of the mission. The burn further refined the spacecraft's trajectory, or ...
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2005 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Awards Announced
Projects on a navigational system for the blind, possible discovery of an ancient coastline on Mars and a lower-cost technology to analyze compounds used to protect against disease were the student projects that won top awards ...
May 16, 2005 |
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Limited Edition 'Harajuku Lovers' Digital Camera - Only 3,000 Produced
Designed for her fans, the limited edition (only 3,000 produced) "HP Photosmart R607 Harajuku Lovers Digital Camera by Gwen Stefani" is styled in turquoise and white with maroon-colored accents, including ...
May 16, 2005 |
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Nanotube water doesn't freeze - even at hundreds of degrees below zero
A new form of water has been discovered by physicists in Argonne's Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) Division. Called nanotube water, these molecules contain two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom but do ...
May 16, 2005 |
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Biologists search for 'half-fusion'
Every living cell is surrounded by a membrane, a thin barrier that separates the genetic machinery of life from the non-living world outside. Though barriers, membranes are not impervious. Cells use a complex hierarchy of ...
May 16, 2005 |
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Engineers Discover Way to Link Plastic to Biological Materials
Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have found a way to modify a plastic to anchor molecules that promote nerve regeneration, blood vessel growth or other biological processes. In the study led by Dr. Christine Sch ...
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