NEC Realizes Enhanced Version of its PaPeRo Robots

NEC Realizes Enhanced Version of its PaPeRo Robots

Electronics /

created Mar 18, 2005 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 0

NEC Corporation announced the development of a new advanced version of its personal partner-type robot "PaPeRo", PaPeRo 2005, which is capable of more natural communication with people principally due to improvements ...


Mathematician untangles legendary problem

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created Mar 18, 2005 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Karl Mahlburg, a young mathematician, has solved a crucial chunk of a puzzle that has haunted number theorists since the math legend Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his revolutionary notions into a tattered notebook. "In a n ...


Climate Change Inevitable

Science: Climate Change Inevitable

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created Mar 18, 2005 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Even if all greenhouse gases had been stabilized in the year 2000, we would still be committed to a warmer Earth and greater sea level rise in the present century, according to a new study by a team of climate ...


Researchers go into action after Tsunami

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created Mar 18, 2005 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

British researchers have launched urgent research programmes in order to learn lessons from the recent Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster. Such knowledge is relevant to both UK, and overseas disaster assessment and prevention ...


NASA Researchers Use Imaging Radar to Detect Coastal Pollution

NASA Researchers Use Imaging Radar to Detect Coastal Pollution

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A NASA-funded study of marine pollution in Southern California concluded space-based synthetic aperture radar can be a vital observational tool for assessing and monitoring ocean hazards in urbanized coastal ...


Samsung Introduces Innovative MP3 Players

Samsung Introduces Innovative MP3 Players

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created Mar 18, 2005 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its 2005 first-half product line-up and its intention to reach the top of the rapidly growing world market for MP3 players by 2007.


Nano-Probes Allow an Inside Look at Cell Nuclei

Nano-Probes Allow an Inside Look at Cell Nuclei

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created Mar 18, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanotechnology may be in its infancy, but biologists may soon use it to watch the inner workings of a living cell like never before. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National ...


Scientists Discover How Fish Evolved To Float At Different Sea Depths

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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered how fish have evolved over the last 400 million years to stay motionless at different water depths. A research team led by Dr Michael Berenbrink, a Comparative Phy ...


Tiny porphyrin tubes developed by Sandia may lead to new nanodevices

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Research could result in clean, inexpensive hydrogen fuel Sunlight splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen using devices too small to be seen in a standard microscope. That's a goal of a research team from the Nationa ...


STMicroelectronics Introduces the 2x1W Stereo Amplifier for Portable Applications

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STMicroelectronics has developed a high-quality stereo audio amplifier for use in cellular mobile phones, notebooks, PDAs, LCD monitors, TVs and portable audio devices. This device adds to a fast-growing portfolio of audio ...


Harnessing microbes, one by one, to build a better nanoworld

Harnessing microbes, one by one, to build a better nanoworld

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Taking a new approach to the painstaking assembly of nanometer-sized machines, a team of scientists at UW-Madison has successfully used single bacterial cells to make tiny bio-electronic circuits. The work is ...


Cell Phone Calls Via Fixed-line Networks, Via Bluetooth

Cell Phone Calls Via Fixed-line Networks, Via Bluetooth

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In the future, cell phone users will be able to use Bluetooth to telephone at home via fixed-line networks. At CeBIT, Siemens was demonstrating the solution on a cell phone to show how access to an ISDN fixed-line ...


Got NOx?

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers have developed a new cost effective and energy efficient method for reducing oxides of nitrogen, or NOx, in diesel engine emissions. Called the reformer assisted catalysis, ...


Dropping nano-anchor

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Touch the tines of a tuning fork and it goes silent. Scientists have faced a similar problem trying to harness the strength and conductivity of carbon nanotubes, regarded as material of choice for the next generation of everything ...


Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems

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Finding patterns behind seemingly random events is the signature of a recent trio of research studies coming from the statistical physics group in Boston University's Department of Physics. Although describing physical phenomenon ...



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