Archive: 01/21/2005
Nanosys, Sharp to Develop Nanotechnology-Enabled Fuel Cells
Nanosys, Inc. announced it entered into a collaborative agreement with Sharp Corporation of Osaka, Japan to develop nanotechnology enabled fuel cells incorporating Nanosys' proprietary nanostructure technology. Under the terms of the ag ...
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High-capacity 6 GB 1-inch Hard Drive
Western Digital Corp.announced Jan. 19 that the company will enter the market for miniature hard drives with a family of 1-inch drives that enable a variety of handheld consumer devices, which are experiencing ...
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MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a biotech chip that mimics the metabolic reactions in the human liver, allowing rapid screening of potential ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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Researcher: Global warming not to blame for tsunami
The shock and awe resulting from the massive tsunami that hit Indian Ocean nations Dec. 26 has left many wondering what could have caused such a disaster – and if there is anything humans can do to control or mitigate future ...
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Einstein’s brain
During his life, Albert Einstein made some of the world’s greatest scientific discoveries. However, the location of his brain, which was controversially removed by the pathologist Dr Thomas Harvey upon Einstein’s ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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Molecular scale resolution achieved in polymer nanoimprinting technique
Scientists using molds derived from carbon nanotubes have approached the ultimate resolution – defined by molecular scale dimensions – in a widely used polymer nanoimprinting technique. By accurately replicating features with ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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World's First Ultra High-Speed Optical Fiber Switch with Power Amplification Features
Ultra high-speed signal processing verified at 640 gigabits per second Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) today announced their development of the wo ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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Birth of a Black Hole
The NASA-led Swift mission has detected and imaged its first gamma-ray burst, likely the birth cry of a brand new black hole. The bright and long burst occurred on January 17. It was in the midst of exploding, as ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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Scientists determine fault near tsunami area moving 10 millimeters per year
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have determined that the Karakorum fault in Tibet, a feature formed by the same tectonic "collision" that caused the recent tsunami, has slipped 10 millimeters ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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SEMATECH Meeting Identifies Challenges to Maturing Maskless Lithography
Guided by input from more than 100 industry professionals, a SEMATECH-led steering committee has ranked the critical issues for bringing maskless lithography (ML2) from R&D concepts to limited commercial production, possibly within ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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Comic Book Engineering
ASME has launched a new comic strip series to introduce and educate young readers about the history and contributions of mechanical engineering. Each month throughout 2005, the Web-based "funnies" will feature entertaining ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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DNA molecules used to assemble nanoparticles
University of Michigan researchers have developed a faster, more efficient way to produce a wide variety of nanoparticle drug delivery systems, using DNA molecules to bind the particles together. Nanometer-sc ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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Queen’s physicist 1st Canadian to win top Russian science prize
Queen’s University Physics Professor Art McDonald is the first Canadian to win the prestigious international Bruno Pontecorvo Prize in elementary particle physics, Russia’s top award in this field. Introduced in 1995 sho ...
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Timing is everything: First step in protein building revealed
Timing is everything, it seems, even in science. A team led by Johns Hopkins scientists has unraveled the first step in translating genetic information in order to build a protein, only to find that it's not one step but ...
Jan 21, 2005 |
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New worm thinly disguised as CNN breaking news headlines
Virus researchers at Sophos have identified a new worm which poses as information on the latest news stories. Crowt-A(W32/Crowt-A) takes its subject lines, message content and attachment names from headlines gathered in real-time ...
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