New trigonometry is a sign of the times
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric ...
Night Vision System for Cars
Sep 16, 2005 |
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At the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Siemens has introduced a night vision system that works with infrared technology. With this innovation, Siemens has also become the first automotive industry ...
Toshiba develops fuel cell prototypes for portable music players
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Toshiba said Friday it has developed two small direct methanol fuel cell prototypes that can dramatically increase the playing time for mobile music players. A fuel cell unit the size of a pack of chewing gum ...
Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Study Says
Sep 16, 2005 |
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The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped since the 1990s, according to a study by researchers at ...
The Two Moons Of Mars As Seen From Mars
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Taking advantage of extra solar energy collected during the day, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit settled in for an evening of stargazing, photographing the two moons of Mars as they crossed the night sky. ...
Asteroids Caused The Early Inner Solar System Cataclysm
Sep 16, 2005 |
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University of Arizona and Japanese scientists are convinced that evidence at last settles decades-long arguments about what objects bombarded the early inner solar system in a cataclysm 3.9 billion years ago. ...
Solar Minimum Explodes
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Just one week ago, on Sept. 7th, a huge sunspot rounded the sun's eastern limb. As soon as it appeared, it exploded, producing one of the brightest x-ray solar flares of the Space Age. In the days that followed, ...
California game restrictions defended
Sep 16, 2005 |
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A bill that would restrict access to overly violent or X-rated video games was defended Friday as being constitutionally sound.
Arctic sea ice may be at 'tipping point'
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Arctic ice melting may have accelerated to a "tipping point" that will produce a vicious cycle of melting and heating, U.S. scientists say.
Study: Mental declines can be reversed
Sep 16, 2005 |
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As we move past retirement age, most of us will not be as mentally sharp as we once were, but a study suggests we may be able to reverse the trend. Dennis Foth, a professor in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Extension, ...
Study suggests new way of making super-hard nanomaterials
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Research conducted by a team of scientists led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory suggests a new way of making super-hard materials under high-pressure conditions. The research offers a glimpse at harder ...
Study charts origins of fear memory
Sep 16, 2005 |
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A team of researchers led by the University of Toronto has charted how and where a painful event becomes permanently etched in the brain. The researchers said their discovery has treatment implications for pain-related emotional ...
Ghostly spokes in Saturn's rings spotted by Cassini
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Delighted scientists on the Cassini imaging team will be breaking out the champagne in celebration of the first Cassini sighting of spokes, the ghostly radial markings discovered in Saturn's rings by NASA's ...
Nintendo unveiled 'Revolution' - one-handed wireless game controller
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Nintendo unveiled the controller for its next home video game console, code-named Revolution, on Friday at the Tokyo Game Show. The one-handed wireless controller, seen in the right hand, senses motion, depth, ...
When Is A Space Rock More Than Just A Space Rock?
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Ceres 1 was already holding the title of the solar system's largest asteroid. Now new observations show the space rock may be more worthy of the appellation "miniplanet."
