Archive: 02/17/2005
Galaxy Clusters Formed Early
Only one billion years after the Big Bang, clusters of galaxies were already forming. This discovery pushes back the age of the youngest known galaxy cluster by a third, and shows that the largest astronomical ...
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Robots that walk like humans
Three independent research teams, including one from MIT, have built walking robots that mimic humans in terms of their gait, energy-efficiency, and control. The MIT robot also demonstrates a new learning system ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Brain region learns to anticipate risk, provides early warnings
Following the Asian tsunami, scientists struggled to explain reports that primitive aboriginal tribesmen had somehow sensed the impending danger in time to join wild animals in a life-saving flight to higher ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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SRAM technology with 0.8V operation voltage
Hitachi, Ltd.and Renesas Technology Corp. announced that they have developed low-voltage embedded SRAM technology for SoC's (system-on-a-chip) beyond the 90-nm process node. Using new circuit techniques, the power lines of ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Saturn’s aurora – not as we thought! Comment from UK scientists
Results which combine data from the joint NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini Huygens space mission and the Hubble Space Telescope, published in Nature today (17th February 2005), reveal that Saturn’s auroras, long thought ...
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Samsung and Freescale demonstrate Ultra-Wideband-enabled cell phone at 3GSM World Congress
Furthering its Ultra-Wideband (UWB) market leadership and product innovation, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) demonstrated the world's first UWB-enabled Samsung cell phone at the 3GSM World Congress. The UWB-enabled ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Green Tea Extract Shows Potential as an Anti-Cancer Agent
A study on bladder cancer cell lines showed that green tea extract has potential as an anti‑cancer agent, proving for the first time that it is able to target cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. The study, ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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The Oldest Homo sapiens
When the bones of two early humans were found in 1967 near Kibish, Ethiopia, they were thought to be 130,000 years old. A few years ago, researchers found 154,000- to 160,000-year-old human bones at Herto, Ethiopia. ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery
Researchers at Purdue University have built and demonstrated a prototype for a new class of miniature devices to study synthetic cell membranes in an effort to speed the discovery of new drugs for a variety ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Super-heavy nuclei take shape in 'extreme' new theories
Advanced computational methods and supporting experiments, including work performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are giving scientists a better understanding of the nature and ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Giant Crater on Titan
A giant impact crater the size of Iowa was spotted on Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during Tuesday's Titan flyby. Cassini flew within 1,577 kilometers (980 miles) of Titan's surface ...
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Small is Different
Years ago, when Uzi Landman and his colleagues set out to uncover some of the rules that govern why a non-reactive metal like gold acts as a catalyst when it is in nanoclusters only a few atoms in size, they ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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UCLA Scientists Transform HIV Into Cancer-seeking Missile
Camouflaging an impotent AIDS virus in new clothes enables it to hunt down metastasized melanoma cells in living mice, reports a UCLA AIDS Institute study in the Feb. 13 online edition of Nature Medicine. The scientists added ...
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Saturn’s radio emissions and bright auroras are linked
Just as the static on an AM radio grows louder with the approach of a summer lightning storm, strong radio emissions accompany bright auroral spots -- similar to Earth’s northern lights -- on the planet Saturn, according ...
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Clemson research could help turn hydrogen hype into 'hy'ways
Americans will have a hard time driving on the future's highways if they don't have fuel. While hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, it's not readily available. Many researchers are working to develop fuel ...
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