Scientists First To Measure Force Required To Move Individual Atoms
Feb 21, 2008 |
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IBM scientists, in collaboration with the University of Regensburg in Germany, are the first ever to measure the force it takes to move individual atoms on a surface. This fundamental measurement provides ...
Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability of widely-used security systems
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 21, 2008 |
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A team of academic, industry and independent researchers has demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the contents of “secure” memory systems, particularly in laptops.
Astronomers discover largest-ever dark matter structures spanning 270M light-years
Feb 21, 2008 |
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A University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen. Measuring 270 million light-years across, these dark matter structures criss-cross the ...
Electronic tattoo display runs on blood
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen ...
NVIDIA Reveals First Next-Generation GeForce 9 Series GPU
Feb 21, 2008 |
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NVIDIA Corporation has unveiled the first graphics processing unit (GPU) of its next-generation GeForce 9 Series that may offer the largest single-generation performance jump in the Company’s history. Introduced ...
Powerful explosions suggest neutron star missing link
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have revealed that the youngest known pulsing neutron star has thrown a temper tantrum. The collapsed star occasionally unleashes powerful bursts ...
Researchers investigate mass bat deaths
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Feb 21, 2008 |
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First it was bees that were mysteriously dying. Now it's bats.
1 million trillion 'flops' per second targeted by new Institute for Advanced Architectures
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Preparing groundwork for an exascale computer is the mission of the new Institute for Advanced Architectures, launched jointly at Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories.
Journey to the center of the Earth -- Scientists explain tectonic plate motions
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2008 |
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The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in Nature today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one sliding below ...
'Two-Faced' Particles Act Like Tiny Submarines
Feb 21, 2008 |
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For the first time, researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated that microscopic "two-faced" spheres whose halves are physically or chemically different – so-called Janus particles – will ...
The light and dark of Venus
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Venus Express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large-scale weather. Bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the south pole to the low southern latitudes and ...
Scientists reactivate immune
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found that therapy can be used to stimulate the production of vital immune cells, called ...
Bacteria can be made to spin spider silk
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Feb 21, 2008 |
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Biological and medical research is on the threshold of a new era based on better understanding of how large organic molecules bind together and recognise each other. There is great potential for exploiting the molecular docking ...
Modified electron microscope identifies atoms
Feb 21, 2008 |
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A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. ...
Analogue logic for quantum computing
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Digital logic, or bits, is the only paradigm for the IT world, and up to now researchers used it almost exclusively to study quantum information processing. But European scientists, in a series of firsts, have proved that ...
