Breakthrough Achievement for One Terabit/Inch˛ HDD Recording Density
Jan 18, 2007 |
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Fujitsu today announced a breakthrough in magnetic recording. Using patterned media technology, Fujitsu was able to achieve a one-dimensional array nanohole pattern with an unprecedented 25 nanometer pitch. This dramatic ...
Bats in flight reveal unexpected aerodynamics
Jan 18, 2007 |
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The maneuverability of a bat in flight makes even Harry Potter's quidditch performance look downright clumsy. While many people may be content to simply watch these aerial acrobats in wonder, Kenneth Breuer ...
ANSOM Microscope Achieves Sub 10nm Resolution
Jan 18, 2007 |
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The idea behind near-field microscopy is to offer a technique by which extremely small structures (at the nanometer level) can be measured and manipulated. However, 20 nanometers has been the best resolution accomplished. ...
In 'forty jumps,' scientists model scales of quarks to quasars
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 18, 2007 |
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Comprehending the smallness of a quark or the hugeness of the observable universe is a challenge that most of us find difficult, yet captivating. Placing vastly different scales side by side to explore their ...
What happens when the mind wanders?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 18, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered what happens in the brain when the mind wanders. Until recently, little has been known about the neural mechanisms that give the mind its ability to daydream.
Walking molecule now carries packages
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 18, 2007 |
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A research team, led by UC Riverside's Ludwig Bartels, was the first to design a molecule that can move in a straight line on a flat surface. Now this team has found a way to attach cargo: two CO2 molecules, ...
Deep in arctic mud, geologists find strong evidence of climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2007 |
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How severe will global warming get? Jason P. Briner is looking for an answer buried deep in mud dozens of feet below the surface of lakes in the frigid Canadian Arctic.
Conceptualizing a cyborg
Jan 18, 2007 |
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Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine describe the basis for developing a biological interface that could link a patient's nervous system to a thought-driven artificial limb. Their ...
Buckyballs used as 'passkey' into cancer cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 18, 2007 |
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Scientists at Rice University and pediatric specialists at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a new way to use Rice's famed buckyball nanoparticles as passkeys that allows drugs to enter cancer cells.
Addicted to phones? Cell phone use becoming a major problem for some, expert says
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 18, 2007 |
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“Turn off your cell phones and pagers.” For most people, heeding these warnings in hospitals or at the movies is as simple as pressing a button. But for a growing number of people across the globe, the idea of being out of ...
U.S. scientists develop better heat pump
Jan 18, 2007 |
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U.S. homeowners might soon see their electric bills decreasing thanks to an integrated heat pump system developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Bright white beetle dazzles scientists
Jan 18, 2007 |
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An obscure species of beetle could teach us how to produce brilliant white ultra-thin materials, according to a research team led by the University of Exeter.
Astronomers Discover New Star in Southern Cross
Jan 18, 2007 |
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A research team at Swarthmore College discovered a previously unknown companion to the bright star, beta Crucis, in the Southern Cross. As a prominent member of the well-known constellation Crux, or the Southern ...
Neural bottleneck found that thwarts multi-tasking
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 18, 2007 |
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Many people think they can safely drive while talking on their cell phones. Vanderbilt neuroscientists Paul E. Dux and René Marois have found that when it comes to handling two things at once, your brain, while ...
Integral sees the Galactic centre playing hide and seek
Jan 18, 2007 |
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ESA's gamma ray observatory Integral has caught the centre of our galaxy in a moment of rare quiet. A handful of the most energetic high-energy sources surrounding the black hole at the centre of the Galaxy ...
