East Antarctic Ice Sheet Gains Mass and Slows Sea Level Rise, Study Finds
May 20, 2005 |
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Results Reported in Online Edition of Science Suggest Increasing Snowfall is Likely Cause Current estimates indicate that the global sea level is rising due to global warming and the shrinkage of terrestrial, or land-based, ice. R ...
Archimedes manuscript yields secrets under X-ray gaze
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May 20, 2005 |
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For five days in May, the ancient collided with the ultra-modern at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light with brilliant X-ray light. A synchrotron X-ray beam at the ...
Sega Puts The Sonic Into Panasonic Mobile Phones
May 20, 2005 |
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Panasonic today announced that it has secured the rights to feature SEGA’s blockbuster game, Sonic The Hedgehog, on its new series of mobile phones. As previewed on SEGA’s booth at the E3 premier game show ...
Tiny Silicon Chip Will Revolutionize Car Technology
May 20, 2005 |
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Microstaq's MEMS valve technology will miniaturize automotive flow control systems and has the potential to revolutionize the entire world of flow control in the same way the transistor changed the electronic world Microstaq engin ...
The electroluminescent Star Wars' light sabre
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May 20, 2005 |
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They are a big improvement on the day-glow plastic models sold at the time of the first Star Wars blockbuster, but a high-tech toy light sabre currently on the market is sensitive to sunlight and users are ...
Toshiba to Showcase Advances in Sophisticated Home Life Support Robot
May 20, 2005 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced further advances in robotics that take the company closer to its concept of a "life support partner" - a sophisticated robot able to deliver human-centric technologies that ...
Scientists Find Potential For Catastrophic Shifts In Pacific Ecosystems
May 20, 2005 |
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Opening the door to a new way of understanding ocean processes and managing and protecting marine resources, a group of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, has developed a groundbreaking analysis of ...
Engineers develop low-cost, highly sensitive underwater listening device
May 20, 2005 |
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Ocean-going acoustic sensor array to aid in national security, ocean research efforts Jason Holmes, a mechanical engineering graduate student at Boston University and guest researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu ...
A Few Steps Closer to Nanoscale Photonic Technology
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One day our electronic technology, which is based on the manipulation of electrons, could be supplanted by photonics, which is based on the manipulation of light waves (photons). If the promise of photonic ...
Samsung's first 90nm 512Mb DRAM memory adopted for use in Playstation 3
May 20, 2005 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced that it has produced the first 90-nanometer production samples of 512-Megabit XDR (eXtreme Data Rate) DRAM, the fastest memory for multimedia applications. The Samsung 512Mb XDR DRAM can ...
Web site explains how climate change affects New York City
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With over half the world's people now living in cities, it's important for us to better understand how climate changes might affect urban areas. Now, a new highly-researched Web site provides scientific answers to basic que ...
Plant Sacrifices Cells to Fight Invaders
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Gene ensures programmed cell suicide does not go unchecked Researchers recently discovered a gene essential to one of the plant kingdom's key immune responses--programmed cell death (PCD). Plants use PC ...
'Cornell dots' replace quantum dots for biological tagging, imaging and optical computing
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By surrounding fluorescent dyes with a protective silica shell, Cornell University researchers have created fluorescent nanoparticles with possible applications in displays, biological imaging, optical computing, ...
NASA Finally Launches Environmental Satellite
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NASA successfully launched a new environmental satellite today for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It will improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events around the world. The NOA ...
IBM Combines POWER5 Processor Based Servers And Storage With DB2 UDB To Set A New World Record In Performance
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IBM today announced that IBM POWER5 processor-based servers and IBM TotalStorage systems, running IBM DB2 Universal Database, have combined to set a new record on the three-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application ...
