A traveling-wave engine to power deep space travel

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created Sep 17, 2004 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A University of California scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and researchers from Northrop Grumman Space Technology have developed a novel method for generating electrical power for deep-space travel us ...


Sharp 2-Megapixel CCD Camera Module

Sharp Develops 2-Megapixel CCD Camera Module for Mobile Phones with New 2X Optical Inner Zoom Lens

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created Sep 17, 2004 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Sharp Corporation has developed a new 2-megapixel CCD camera module featuring a 2X optical inner zoom lens. Intended for use in high-end camera-equipped mobile phones, the new LZ0P3738 will be available in ...


Huygens probe test successful

Huygens probe test successful

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created Sep 17, 2004 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

ESA's Huygens probe, now orbiting Saturn on board the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, is in good health and successfully passed its fifteenth ‘In-Flight Checkout’ on 14 September 2004. This in-flight checkout ...


Subangstrom- resolution image shows dumbbell-shaped rows of atoms with a spacing of 0.78 angstrom between each pair

ORNL microscope pushes back barrier of 'how small'

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created Sep 17, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers, using a state- of-the-art microscope and new computerized imaging technology, have pushed back the barrier of how small we can see--to a record, atom-scale 0.6 angstro ...


The white-grayish film is a sign of fat bloom in chocolate bars

Structure of chocolate unravelled by synchrotron radiation

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created Sep 17, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Think about a piece of chocolate. Imagine it melting in your mouth. The sensation is delicious. Now think of the same image, but this time the chocolate is covered by a white film on its surface. This white ...


SAMSUNG 2Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor

SAMSUNG Electronics Develops High Quality 2Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor with 0.13mm Process Technology

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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that it has developed a new 2megapixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) chip using industry first 0.13mm process technology. Samsung's CIS ...


Kodak, IBM See Eye to Eye on New Image Sensors

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Eastman Kodak Company and IBM will work together to develop and manufacture image sensors used in such consumer products as digital still cameras and camera phones. The collaboration will mate Kodak's image sensor technology with IBM's ...


Strings of Shadowy Rings Drape Saturn

Strings of Shadowy Rings Drape Saturn

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Saturn's ring shadows appear wrapped in a harmonious symphony with the planet in this color view from the Cassini spacecraft. Saturn and its rings would nearly fill the space between Earth and the Moon. Ye ...


Foreseeing the Sun’s fate: Astronomical interferometry reveals the close environment of Mira stars

Foreseeing the Sun’s fate: Astronomical interferometry reveals the close environment of Mira stars

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For the first time, an international team of astronomers led by Guy Perrin from the Paris Observatory/LESIA, (Meudon, France) and Stephen Ridgway from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (Tucson, Arizona, ...


NASA image of two galaxies passing each other

The Universe: It's not as violent as we think

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The Universe has experienced far fewer collisions among galaxies than previously thought, according to a new analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data by an ANU researcher. Astronomer Dr Alister Graham, from the Re ...


Cinematic Shooter to Leverage AMD’s Advanced 64-bit Architecture for Improved Game Performance

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Atari is working closely with AMD to develop Shadow Ops: Red Mercury , the ciniatic interactive blockbuster that first appeared on the Xbox™ video game systi from Microsoft in June, using AMD's advanced AMD Athlon™ 64 serie ...



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