Archive: 05/20/2005
Discovery Wraps up Second Tanking Test
Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center conducted a new tanking test on Friday, May 20, at Launch Pad 39-B to continue troubleshooting two issues that arose during the tanking test on April 14.
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Toshiba to Showcase Advances in Sophisticated Home Life Support Robot
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 ...
May 20, 2005 |
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Samsung's first 90nm 512Mb DRAM memory adopted for use in Playstation 3
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 ...
May 20, 2005 |
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Archimedes manuscript yields secrets under X-ray gaze
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 ...
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Sega Puts The Sonic Into Panasonic Mobile Phones
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 ...
May 20, 2005 |
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Plant Sacrifices Cells to Fight Invaders
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 ...
May 20, 2005 |
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New Primate Discovered in Mountain Forests of Tanzania
"Highland mangabey" is first African monkey to be described in more than two decades Two research teams working independently in Tanzania have discovered a monkey that had eluded scientists despite decades ...
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Scientists Find Potential For Catastrophic Shifts In Pacific Ecosystems
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 ...
May 20, 2005 |
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Tiny Silicon Chip Will Revolutionize Car Technology
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 ...
May 20, 2005 |
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NASA Space Station Science Officer Performs 'FOOT' Work
Expedition 11 NASA Science Officer John Phillips conducted the first session of the Foot/Ground Reaction Forces during Spaceflight, or FOOT experiment. FOOT investigates the differences between use of the body’s lower extremities ...
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A Few Steps Closer to Nanoscale Photonic Technology
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 ...
May 20, 2005 |
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Apple Recalls iBook and PowerBook Computer Batteries
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Apple announce the recall of about 128,000 rechargeable batteries for iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 computers. An internal short can cause the battery cells to overheat, posing ...
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IBM Combines POWER5 Processor Based Servers And Storage With DB2 UDB To Set A New World Record In Performance
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 ...
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Engineers develop low-cost, highly sensitive underwater listening device
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 ...
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NASA Finally Launches Environmental Satellite
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 ...
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