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DNA For Information Processing and Data Storage

The DNA molecule--nature's premier data storage material--may hold the key for the information technology industry as it faces demands for more compact data processing and storage circuitry. A team led by Richard Kiehl, a ...

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NTT DoCoMo Achieves 1Gbps Packet Transmission in 4G

According to JCN Network, NTT DoCoMo announced December 17 that it succeeded in achieving 1Gbps in downlink packet data transmission in a laboratory experiment using forth-generation (4G) mobile communication radio access ...

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Newsweek, foresees LG Electronics as the Hottest Player for 2005

Newsweek, in its Dec. 2004-Feb.2005 Special Edition, featured LG Electronics CEO Kim, Ssang Soo (S.S. Kim) as a leader in the Technology Section. Newsweek also noted to keep an eye on LG and its field commander in 2005. The mag ...

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Development of Transistor with New Metal Gate Electrode & High-K Gate Dielectric

NEC today announced the development of a transistor featuring a new gate stack structure using a Hf-based high-k dielectric (*1) and a metal gate electrode (*2), which simultaneously realizes significant gate leakage suppression and im ...

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Elpida Memory Develops Distortion Control Technology to Improve Mass Production of Highly-Reliable DRAM

Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it has developed a new distortion control technology that improves data retentiveness-an element that is crucial ...

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CALIPSO monitors pulse of Soufriere Hills volcano

A unique monitoring system in place on the island of Montserrat can record the everyday changes beneath the Soufriere Hills volcano and throughout the island, according to an international team of volcanologists.

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Fermilab and Berkeley Lab Collaborate with Meyer Tool on Key Component for European Particle Accelerator

Officials of the of the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced yesterday the completion of a key component of the U.S. contribution to the Large ...

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SAMSUNG Launches A Cutting-Edge Wireless Device SGH-p735

Twist, swivel or flip open the new p735 and re-define your wireless multimedia experience. Samsung officially launches the exclusive p735, a cutting-edge wireless device that fully integrates communication ...

Electronics /

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Femtosecond laser technique opens new opportunities for research on nerve regeneration

In a breakthrough for research on nerve regeneration, a team of scientists has reported using femtosecond laser pulses to precisely cut individual axons of nerves in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most ...

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Emory chemists reveal challenge to reaction theory

For nearly 75 years, transition-state theory has guided chemists in how they view the way chemical reactions proceed. Recent research by Emory University chemists is challenging the long-held theory, showing that in some ...

Other Sciences /

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Future chemical engineers race for finish line with fuel cell car

Two UH students first to go national, place high in competition Putting the pedal to the metal, two University of Houston chemical engineering students tested their mettle with the creation of a fuel-cell-driven ...

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Winds, ice motion root cause of decline in sea ice, not warmer temperatures

Extreme changes in the Arctic Oscillation in the early 1990s -- and not warmer temperatures of recent years -- are largely responsible for declines in how much sea ice covers the Arctic Ocean, with near record lows having ...

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ZigBee Specification Is Ratified

The ZigBee Alliance has ratified the first ZigBee™ specification making the development and deployment of extremely power efficient, cost effective, low data rate monitoring, control and sensing networks a reality. This o ...

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Linux To Be the Fasted Growing Server OS

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux® in the enterprise, today announced the completion of a global Linux market share and forecast study conducted by ...

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Saturn's outer rings could be disappearing

A massive eruption of atomic oxygen from Saturn's outer rings, seen by Cassini's ultraviolet camera as the spacecraft neared its destination, may be an indication that the planet's wispy E ring is eroding so fast that it ...

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