Researchers extend Einstein's work
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A University of Queensland research team has celebrated the end of the Einstein International Year of Physics by developing a ground-breaking theory based on work originated by the great scientist.
Physics: Hunting the Penguin During BaBar's Long Run
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BaBarians are hot on the trail of penguins. The BaBar collaboration is hunting for signs of new physics - perhaps supersymmetry, or perhaps the Higgs particle - in 'penguin modes', rare channels of decay from ...
Scientists narrow time limits for human, chimp split
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A team of researchers has proposed new limits on the time when the most recent common ancestor of humans and their closest ape relatives – the chimpanzees – lived. Scientists at Arizona State University and ...
How nanotubes enter cells
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Scientists worldwide are teasing apart the precise mechanisms behind how tubes of carbon only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide enter cells, findings that researchers could employ to help these nanotubes deliver medicines ...
Duke Chemist's Lab Steady Source of 'Nanotube' Advances
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"Nanotubes" grown in the busy laboratory of associate chemistry professor Jie Liu were crucial to IBM scientists' recent announcements of a new source of light emissions. Liu's lab is also working with a California ...
Record year for meteorite recovery in Canada
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The discovery of four new meteorites in 2005 makes it a record-setting year for recovering rocks from outer space in Canada and also confirms a University of Calgary scientist’s belief that an extraordinary ...
Penn-State Philips CMOS transistor model adopted as industry-wide standard for future nanometer chip design
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Philips and the Pennsylvania State University today announced that their jointly developed PSP (Penn State Philips) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor model has been selected by the Compact ...
New Microsoft patent to pause TV shows
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Microsoft's long running request for an interactive TV patent has been granted, reports The Register. The patent, which Microsoft originally applied for in 1993, enables the company to develop and market technology ...
Permafrost may nearly disappear by 2100
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., says global warming may destroy most permafrost across the Northern Hemisphere.
Bollywood set to embrace digital cinema
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While studios and theater owners in Hollywood fight over who pays for the expensive computer-based projection systems for digital screening of movies, digital cinema distribution is the new technological revolution that is ...
K-State Physics Professor Named Outstanding Junior Investigator by U.S. DOE
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The trophy case for Kansas State University's physics department continues to grow. Glenn Horton-Smith, a K-State assistant professor of physics, is just one of the recent faculty members in the department to earn national ...
Understanding Earthquakes
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Rensselaer campus regulars may not be aware of it, but earthquakes frequently surge through the basement of the Jonsson Engineering Center, the seemingly placid engineering building overlooking the school’s ...
Study: Parents key to how we handle stress
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A German study examining adolescent to young adult coping styles finds those with coherent parental relationships deal more effectively with stress.
Breaking the silence online
Dec 20, 2005 |
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A website that allows sex partners to inform each other about their sexual health has been launched in Los Angeles.
Study: No U.S. engineering gap
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At least one study is refuting reports that China and India graduate more than eight times the number of engineers than does the United States.
