Kodak Announces 39-megapixel CCD Image Sensor

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Eastman Kodak Company has set the quality standard for digital imaging with new high-resolution image sensors that allow commercial, studio, and other professional photographers to capture digital images with the most life-like ...


New antifreeze protein may allow longer storage of transplant organs

Antifreeze protein found in snow fleas may allow longer storage of transplant organs

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A new antifreeze protein discovered in tiny snow fleas by Queen’s University researchers may lengthen the shelf life of human organs for transplantation.


World's First 10.1" Flexible Electronic Paper Display

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

LG.Philips LCD and E Ink have built a 10.1" flexible electronic paper display. Less than 300 microns thick, the paper-white display is as thin and flexible as construction paper. With a 10.1" diagonal, the prototype achieves ...


Mammoth moms heavily invested in offspring

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Details about the life of a young woolly mammoth that died thousands of years ago are emerging from a study of the animal's fossil tusk. One intriguing finding: the calf nursed from its mother six or more years, apparently ...


Recent Landslides In La Conchita, CA, Belong To Much Larger Prehistoric Slide

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The deadly landslide that killed 10 people and destroyed approximately 30 homes in La Conchita, California last January is but a tiny part of a much larger slide, called the Rincon Mountain slide, discovered by Larry D. Gurrola, ...


Selective Logging Causes Widespread Destruction Of Brazil's Amazon: Study

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Selective logging - the practice of removing one or two trees and leaving the rest intact - is often considered a sustainable alternative to clear-cutting, in which a large swath of forest is cut down, leaving little behind ...


Russian-Style Hunting For Helicobacter Pylori

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Due to the 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine received by Robin Warren and Barry Marshall, the name of the Helicobacter pylori bacterium is now a buzz word. According to contemporary overview, the bacterium gets ...


Simplified schematic of a vehicle fuel tank (not to scale).

Why 'Filling-it-up' Takes More than 'Tank Capacity'

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

You fill up your "empty" fuel tank at the gas station and the pump charges you for more gallons than the tank's rated capacity. Are you being deliberately overcharged?


WSU research biologist says only matter of time before avian flu virus reaches U.S.

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

It’s only a matter of time before the avian flu virus reaches the United States, according to a research biologist at Wright State University who said the key is following the migratory patterns of birds.


Carbon nanoparticles stimulate blood clotting, researchers report

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Carbon nanoparticles – both those unleashed in the air by engine exhaust and the engineered structures thought to have great potential in medical applications – promote blood-clotting, scientists report in an upcoming edition ...


Cassini Images of Titan Reveal an Active, Earth-like World

Study: Titan's cloud band is convective

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

University of Arizona scientists say clouds at middle latitudes of Titan's southern hemisphere may form in the same way clouds form at the Earth's equator.


Web site coordinates Pakistan aid efforts

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Web site dedicated to Pakistani relief aid was launched Thursday.


Spitzer Finds Failed Stars May Succeed in Planet Business

Spitzer Finds Failed Stars May Succeed in Planet Business

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted the very beginnings of what might become planets around the puniest of celestial orbs - brown dwarfs, or "failed stars."


Largest undersea observatory is planned

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Canadian and U.S. scientists are planning a project that could turn hundreds of thousands of square miles of sea floor into an undersea observatory.


Ericsson dominates third-generation phones

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created Oct 21, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Ericsson said Friday that it has about 30 percent of the global market share in third-generation mobile-phone handsets.




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