Nanotech tools a $700M market

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The instruments and tools needed to work on the nanoscale could, even when excluding the semiconductor industry, will form a $700 million market by 2008, experts told UPI's Nano World.


Fingernails may someday store information

Other Sciences /

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Japanese scientists are working to place microscopic information on fingernails with the goal of one day replacing credit cards, Nature.com reported. The team has only managed the feat on nail clippings so far, but they hop ...


Field tests unite weather and climate models

Field tests unite weather and climate models

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Researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and several other government and academic institutions have created four new supercomputer simulations that for the first time combine their mathematical ...


Dustiest Star could harbour a young Earth

Dustiest Star could harbour a young Earth

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Results published in Nature today from observations carried out from the Gemini and W.M. Keck Observatories in Hawaii have revealed details about a relatively young dusty star located about 300 light years ...


Florida Tech team invents restuarant pager

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A Florida Tech student design team won an advanced E-team grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance for a restaurant pager.


NASA wants to smooth bumpy plane rides

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Most airline passengers and even flight crews don't like turbulence, so NASA researchers have developed an automatic turbulence reporting system.


Scientists plan Amazon forest fire

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Woods Hole Research Center scientists are planning to burn a one and one-half square-mile area of Amazon forest to study the effects of fires in that area.


'Podcasts' are soaring

Technology /

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Want to listen to your favorite talk radio at your leisure, and not according to a schedule set by some programming director? Apparently, a lot of people do. Search engine requests for Podcasts -- Internet broadcasts, created ...


New group fights to defend Darwinism

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A grass-roots organization calling itself the Message Group is fighting the Christian right and others by defending the teaching of Darwinian evolution.


CROP project to set up large cosmic ray air shower experiment July 21

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Participants in this week's Cosmic Ray Observatory Project workshop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will set up a large cosmic ray air shower experiment on UNL's City Campus July 21 as the culminating exercise in the ...


Math institute gets largest NSF grant ever

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The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minnesota has received the largest math research grant ever made by the National Science Foundation.



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