Microsoft to launch Xbox 360
Nov 18, 2005 |
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Microsoft’s latest game product is due to hit the market on Tuesday 22 November. The new Xbox 360 system will sell at $299. If all goes well for this product, Microsoft could begin to win over the $10 billi ...
Review: Biometrics Technologies Measure Up (Part 1/3)
Nov 18, 2005 |
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(Part 1/3) Biometrics technologies have come a long way from a slow start in the early 80s. Now they can be found almost anywhere and soon, almost everywhere.
New materials for better hydrogen traps
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Nov 18, 2005 |
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Using building blocks that make up ordinary plastics, but putting them together in a whole new way, University of Michigan researchers have created a class of lightweight, rigid polymers they predict will ...
There was no such thing as hell on Earth
Nov 18, 2005 |
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New Australian National University research is set to radically overturn the conventional wisdom that early Earth was a hellish planet barren of continents. An international research team led by Professor Mark Harrison of ...
Overfishing may lead to tuna extinction
Nov 18, 2005 |
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Some scientists fear the bluefin tuna, Japan's unofficial national dish, is being caught in such numbers its commercial extinction is looming.
Physicists discover keys to improving magnet technology
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Nov 18, 2005 |
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Permanent magnets are important in a broad variety of commercial technologies, from car starters to alternators for wind power generation to computer hard drives. Researchers at the U.S. DOE's Argonne National Laboratory ...
New report bolsters theory on the ear’s inner amplifier
Nov 18, 2005 |
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Two competing theories exist to explain how the human ear amplifies sound. Now, using ear hair cells from a bullfrog, scientists at Rockefeller provide evidence to bolster the theory they proposed in 1998.
Beyond Einstein: A live webcast from around the Globe
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Nov 18, 2005 |
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Thursday, December 1, 2005 from 12:00 to 24:00 CET CERN and the World Year of Physics International Steering Committee are partnering with some of the world's leading physics laboratories, science museums and technology pa ...
Survey: Most want evolution taught
Nov 18, 2005 |
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U.S. adults want evolution taught in public schools even though most believe God created humans on the sixth day of the universe, a survey found.
Pa. bear hunt may set record
Nov 18, 2005 |
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Pennsylvania Game Commission officials said this year's black bear season, which opens Monday, is likely to produce some exceptionally large bears.
Australian genetic food plan dropped
Nov 18, 2005 |
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A multimillion-dollar project involving genetically modified food has been scrapped in Australia because an altered pea produced lung inflammation in mice.
Scientists Discover How to Flip a Molecular Switch
Nov 18, 2005 |
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A means for controlling single-molecule switches by engineering their design and surrounding environment has been developed by a research team led by scientists at Penn State, Rice University, and the University ...
Nano World: More funds on nano risk needed
Nov 18, 2005 |
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Investigations of the environmental and health implications of nanotechnology are so important that industry and environmentalist groups, normally thought of as opposed toward each other, both told Congress they would support ...
GreedyMe to help with present lists
Nov 18, 2005 |
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A new Web site called GreedyMe.com has been launched that allows users to create online wish lists.
No new federal funding for Great Lakes
Nov 18, 2005 |
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Great Lakes officials said they were stunned when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put a roadblock for $20 billion in lake improvements. President Bush had called the Great Lakes a "national treasure" and ordered ...
