Spinach May Soon Power Mobile Devices
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For the first time, MIT researchers have incorporated a plant's ability to convert sunlight to energy into a solid-state electronic “spinach sandwich” device that may one day power laptops and cell phones.
Cockroach-Like Robot Will Help To Unlock Mysteries of Animal Moving
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Sep 16, 2004 |
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A cockroach-like robot named RHex is the starting point for a major project to understand animals' most distinguishing trait - how they move without falling over. The National Science Foundation (NSF) anno ...
Mobile Electronic Devices Learn to Smell
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Siemens researchers have succeeded in developing novel mini-sensors that can detect gases and smells. Mobile electronic devices will be used in future to measure the ozone level in the air and warn if it excee ...
Uranium/lead dating provides most accurate date yet for Earth's largest extinction
Sep 16, 2004 |
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A new study by geologists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of California, Berkeley, improves upon a widely used dating technique, opening the possibility of a vastly more accurate time ...
Proving That Shape-Shifting Robots Can Get a Move On
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Sep 16, 2004 |
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It started with tennis balls. As a former collegiate tennis player, Daniela Rus habitually rolls two tennis balls around in her hand as she paces her office. As a robotics researcher at Dartmouth College, she ...
NEC Develops Highly-Reliable High-K Gate Dielectric Film Transistor
Sep 16, 2004 |
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NEC Corporation ("NEC") and NEC Electronics Corporation ("NEC Electronics") today announced the development of technology for the realization of sub 0.1um generation, low-power SOC devices, which require high-K gate diel ...
Neutron physics instrument may unlock mysteries of universe
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Sep 16, 2004 |
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Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source on Chestnut Ridge. ...
Frances, Ivan Contribute to Hurricane Studies
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Seen through the eyes of the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer aboard NASA's Terra satellite, the menacing clouds of Hurricanes Frances and Ivan provide a wealth of information that can help improve hurricane ...
Use Your Personal Mobile During Flight in 2006
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Airbus has successfully completed the first in-flight trial of GSM personal mobile- telephones aboard an airliner, paving the way for their future widespread use. The trial, which took place aboard an Airbus ...
Tech sails into space-based research project
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Dr. Chris Jenkins, a researcher at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, is developing instrumentation that could help NASA find planets outside our solar system, photograph the sun and create an advanced warning sy ...
NASA Facilities Riding Out Ivan
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NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans are riding out Hurricane Ivan, which made landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, overnight. NASA has made preparations to secure important space flight hardware ag ...
NASA Scans Ivan Inside for 3D Image
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On the morning of September 15, 2004, NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured a 3-D look inside Hurricane Ivan, still a Category 4 storm. This unique look at Ivan shows the struct ...
Radical Antarctic telescope "would outdo Hubble"
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A novel Antarctic telescope with 16-m diameter mirrors would far outperform the Hubble Space Telescope, and could be built at a tiny fraction of its cost, says a scientist from the Anglo-Australian Observatory ...
PC Chip Will Protect Users From Hackers and Viruses
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IBM First PC Manufacturer to Equip Its Desktop PCs with New Security Technology From National Semiconductor National Semiconductor today introduced two SafeKeeper™ Trusted Input/Output (I/O) devices, new hardware product ...
Innovative R&D and Computational Nanoscience Redefines Nanophase Materials
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Groundbreaking progress in nanotechnology is giving rise to heightened interest among investors, manufacturers, and other market participants. With progress comes new issues and challenges for theoretical scientists and, acc ...
