Quantum Computing Steps Forward
Jan 20, 2006 |
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With the University of Michigan’s latest production of a quantum chip, it’s another step forward for quantum computers that will someday dwarf the abilities of today’s machines. ...
Towards Molecular Electronics: New Way of Making Molecular Transistors
Jan 20, 2006 |
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Researchers at Columbia University's Nanoscience Center are on the verge of solving one of the most vexing barriers facing advances in molecular electronics: incorporating individual molecules into functional ...
From mirror to mist: Cracking the secret of fracture instabilities
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Jan 20, 2006 |
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Researchers from Max Planck Institute for Metals Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have performed atom-by-atom investigations of how cracks propagate in brittle materials.
Spacecraft, heal thyself
Jan 20, 2006 |
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Building spacecraft is a tough job. They are precision pieces of engineering that have to survive in the airless environment of space, where temperatures can swing from hundreds of degrees Celsius to hundreds ...
New mission to collect, return Martian samples
Jan 20, 2006 |
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The first step of any journey takes place in your mind, they say. If this saying is true, a team of Texas A&M University student engineers is well on the way to Mars.
Scientists expect increased melting of mountain glaciers
Jan 20, 2006 |
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Sea level rise due to increased melting of mountain glaciers and polar ice caps will be much lower in the 21st Century than previously estimated. However, decay of mountain glaciers in due to global warming will be much more ...
Nano World: Gold nano vs. Alzheimer's
Jan 20, 2006 |
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Gold particles only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide together with extremely weak microwaves can dissolve the abnormal protein clumps linked with Alzheimer's disease and potentially those linked with other degenerative ...
Plasma vessel for Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment ready
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Jan 20, 2006 |
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The first large production order for the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment, construction of the plasma chamber, has been successfully completed: The 20 sectors of the bizarrely shaped 35-ton vessel were assembled ...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Robot
Jan 20, 2006 |
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Will robots one day rule the world? For decades this notion has both fascinated and terrified humans, our hungry imagination fed by Hollywood blockbusters and sci-fi novels. Now a new generation of robots promises ...
'Wristwatch' biosensor to track alcohol use
Jan 20, 2006 |
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The device looks like a runner’s digital watch. Black, plastic and oversized, it dominates mathematician Gary Rosen’s wrist. But what Rosen has strapped on is no simple timepiece. It’s one of the very few prototypes ...
Quantum electronics: Two photons and chips
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Jan 20, 2006 |
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Scientists at Toshiba Research Europe Limited (Cambridge, UK) believe they are on to a way of producing entangled twins of photons using a simple semiconductor electronic device. Such a chip-based source of entangled photons ...
Stevens demands online porn rating system
Jan 20, 2006 |
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In a week in which the Child Online Protection Act is back in the news, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, used a committee hearing Thursday to fire a warning toward the adult entertainment industry.
What lies beneath: new research looks deep into the centre of the Earth
Jan 20, 2006 |
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New research published this week on the evolution of volcanoes sheds light on what lies deep beneath the Earth's surface. The research, published in Nature, suggests that the plume of hot material that provid ...
Surfing is safer -- and smarter -- with flotation devices
Jan 20, 2006 |
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It's a truism that the Internet puts the world at its users' fingertips. But it's fast becoming clear that while some parts of the World Wide Web rest on solid ground, much of the information to be found there ...
Wireless World: New roaming standard?
Jan 20, 2006 |
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Consumer interest in mobile Internet access continues to climb, and computer industry leaders including Intel Corp. and others are now calling for the creation of a global roaming standard for wireless, experts ...
