Archive: 05/19/2005
Scientists Find Unusual Use of Metals in the Ocean
Cadmium, commonly considered a toxic metal and often used in combination with nickel in batteries, has been found to have a biological use as a nutrient in the ocean, the first known biological use of cadmium ...
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Discovery Set for Tanking Test on Friday
On Friday, technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center will conduct a new tanking test at Launch Pad 39 to continue troubleshooting two issues that arose during the tanking test on April 14.
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One Mars Orbiter Takes First Photos of Other Orbiters
Photographs from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft released today are the first pictures ever taken of a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet by another spacecraft orbiting that planet.
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IBM and Toppan to Jointly Develop Advanced Photomasks for 45nm
Goal Is Early Establishment of 45nm Photomask Production Process IBM Corporation and Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. today announced an agreement to jointly develop photomasks for next generation, 45-nanometer semiconductor manufac ...
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New Cornell institute will apply artificial intelligence to decision making and data searches
Suppose the computer from the starship Enterprise or the HAL 9000 from "2001, A Space Odyssey" had been scanning intelligence data four years ago. Perhaps it would have made the connection humans missed between terrorists ...
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Smarter machines for space missions
NASA has tapped Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) to lead a $9.6 million effort to give machines enough computer-based "intelligence" to deal safely with component failure or malfunction, with minimal human help, ...
May 19, 2005 |
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Automatic tire pressure maintenance system
The National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories recently provided three engineering concepts to small business owner Dale Petty for a gadget that keeps car tires inflated to the right pressure. ...
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World’s Most Precise 'Hard X-Ray' Nanoprobe Activated
Marking a major step forward in using X-rays to study some of the smallest phenomena in nature, the world’s first “hard X-ray” nanoprobe beamline was activated on March 15, 2005. The unique nanoprobe is one ...
May 19, 2005 |
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New discovery sheds new light on gamma-ray bursts
A new type of light was detected from a recent gamma-ray burst, as discovered by Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA scientists using both burst-detection satellites and a Los Alamos-based robotic telescope. In a pap ...
May 19, 2005 |
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New method improves timing in oscilloscopes
A new method for correcting common timing errors in high-speed oscilloscopes has been developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The method improves the accuracy and clarity of ...
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NEMS device detects the mass of a single DNA molecule
Some people are never satisfied. First, nanotechnology researchers at Cornell University built a device so sensitive it could detect the mass of a single bacterium--about 665 femtograms. Then they built one ...
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From electronics to photonics; Modulating light with electricity
Much of our electronics could soon be replaced by photonics, in which beams of light flitting through microscopic channels on a silicon chip replace electrons in wires. Photonic chips would carry more data, ...
May 19, 2005 |
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Los Angeles 'big squeeze' continues, straining earthquake faults
Northern metropolitan Los Angeles is being squeezed at a rate of five millimeters [0.2 inches] a year, straining an area between two earthquake faults that serve as geologic bookends north and south of the ...
May 19, 2005 |
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Flexible tactile sensors could help robots work better
A robot's sensitivity to touch could be vastly improved by an array of polymer-based tactile sensors that has been combined with a robust signal-processing algorithm to classify surface textures. The work, performed by a ...
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Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Particles Produce Unusual Radio Flash
New radio telescope sees and hears brightest radio blasts on the sky Using the LOPES experiment, a prototype of the new high-tech radio telescope LOFAR to detect ultra-high energy cosmic ray particles, a grou ...
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