Efficient 'can' lights open opportunities for energy savings
Jun 16, 2005 |
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It turns out that the most popular form of residential lighting is generally the most inefficient. So inefficient, in fact, that new building codes in California will effectively limit new installation of incandescent recessed ...
Super Predators And Mass Extinctions
Jun 16, 2005 |
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WASHINGTON, June 16 (SPX) -- Mass extinctions seem to occur on Earth roughly every 26 million years, leading some scientists to propose that they may be caused by rare collisions with comets or asteroids. A researcher in ...
Extreme melting event defines Earth's early history
Jun 16, 2005 |
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Could Earth have had an even more violent infancy than previously imagined? New isotope data suggest that the Earth not only had a very violent beginning but also point to new information about our planet's chemical evolution. New and ...
Hybrids are becoming mainstream
Jun 16, 2005 |
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Hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles are rapidly becoming mainstream choices for American consumers, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and HybridCars.com. "The first buy ...
'Supersolid' or melted 'superfluid' film: A quantum difference
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New calculations support an alternative to "superfluidity" of a solid as the explanation for the behavior of an isotope of helium, 4He, at temperatures approaching Absolute Zero, according to a report in Physical Review Letter ...
UMC's Researchers Extend Traditional Nitrided Gate-oxide to beyond the 65nm node
Jun 16, 2005 |
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Nitrogen profile engineering used to downscale effective oxide thickness towards 1nm to improve semiconductor performance UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, today announced that its research and development team ...
Teleport Offers Managed Network Services To iDirect VSAT Network Operators
Jun 16, 2005 |
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HERNDON, Va., June 16 (SPX) -- iDirect Technologies announced Wednesday Teleport Services International (TSI) has launched its iNOC Managed Network Service for satellite Network Operators (NOs) and Virtual Network Operators ...
Hurricanes to intensify as Earth warms
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Warmer oceans, more moisture in the atmosphere, and other factors suggest that human-induced climate change will increase hurricane intensity and rainfall, according to climate expert Kevin Trenberth of the National Center ...
NEC Develops Highly-Reliable CMOSFET with Phase Controlled NiSi (NFET) & Ni3Si (PFET) Gate Electrode
Jun 16, 2005 |
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NEC Corporation ("NEC") today announced the development of a transistor featuring a new gate stack structure using a hafnium ("Hf")-based, high-k dielectric and a metal gate electrode, which simultaneously realize significant ...
Geology-smart space suit developed
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MADRID, June 16 (UPI) -- European researchers have developed a device that analyzes geological features for astronauts as they move around on extraterrestrial bodies. The computer-enhanced astrobiological scanner was dev ...
Scientists put the squeeze on electron spins
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University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel method for controlling and measuring electron spins in semiconductor crystals of GaAs (gallium arsenide). The work suggests an a ...
Cargo spacecraft lost in Pacific Ocean
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KOROLEV, Russia, June 16 (UPI) -- A Russian cargo spacecraft disengaged from the International Space Station, left orbit and sank in the Pacific Ocean, the Russian Itar-Tass news agency said.
NASA Investigates Revolutionary Space Exploration Concepts
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GREENBELT, Md., June 16 (SPX) -- The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) has selected its 2005 Phase 1 awards. The Phase 1 awards are 12, six-month study proposals beginning in September that could revolutionize space ...
Atmel And u-Blox Provide New Indoor-Capable GPS Signal Tracking Technology
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HEILBRONN, Germany, June 15 (SPX) -- Atmel and u-blox announced Tuesday the availability of a new GPS weak signal tracking technology, called SuperSense, supporting Atmel's Antaris GPS chipsets and GPS modules from u-blox. ...
1000 'Missions' And Counting
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ITHACA, N.Y., June 16 (SPX) -- Luck, it has been said, favors the well prepared. That explains, perhaps, the fortune of the plucky Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity - and their creators back on Earth, including Cornell Professor ...
