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Snake-like robot conquers obstacles
Mar 22, 2005 |
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A virtually unstoppable "snakebot" developed by a University of Michigan team that resembles a high-tech slinky as it climbs pipes and stairs, rolls over rough terrain and spans wide gaps to reach the other ...
Big hopes for tiny, new hydrogen storage material
Mar 22, 2005 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are taking a new approach to "filling up" a fuel cell car with a nanoscale solid, hydrogen storage material. Their discovery could hasten a day ...
Noisy Pictures Tell a Story of 'Entangled' Atoms
Mar 22, 2005 |
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Patterns of noise—normally considered flaws—in images of an ultracold cloud of potassium provide the first-ever visual evidence of correlated ultracold atoms, a potentially useful tool for many applications, ...
Scientists model 'Lord of the Nanorings'
Mar 22, 2005 |
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It's possible that no one gets more use out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's PrairieFire supercomputer, than Xiao Cheng Zeng and his collaborators. In the past five years, they have used PrairieFire to model a lis ...
Leading experts weigh-in on the interpretation of quantum theory: Lectures available on-line
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Mar 22, 2005 |
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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in conjunction with the University of Waterloo, is offering a technical but pedagogical lecture series on the problems associated with developing a consistent understanding of ...
Industry's First 800 Mbps DDR2 SDRAMs for High-Performance Memory Modules
Mar 22, 2005 |
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Elpida Memory, Inc. (Elpida), Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced the industry's first 256 Megabit DDR2 SDRAM devices that achieve 800 Megabits per second (Mbps) operation. ...
Light may arise from relativity violations
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Mar 22, 2005 |
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Light as we know it may be a direct result of small violations of relativity, according to new research scheduled for publication online Tuesday (March 22) in the journal Physical Review D. In discussing the work, physics pr ...
Polarizing xenon to give doctors inside look at lungs
Mar 22, 2005 |
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A University of New Hampshire physics professor’s innovations enabling magnetic resonance imaging to better see inside the lungs form the core of the university’s second spinout company, backed by three new grants from the ...
Increasing Charge Mobility in Single Molecular Organic Crystals
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Mar 22, 2005 |
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Studies may help identify best materials for variety of future electronics applications Flexible displays that can be folded up in your pocket? More accurate biological and chemical sensors? Biocompatible electronics? In resea ...
Sediments in northern Gulf of Mexico not right for methane gas hydrate formation
Mar 22, 2005 |
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Marine sediments in the northern Gulf of Mexico are likely too warm and salty to hold the amount of methane gas hydrates – a potential energy resource – originally thought to exist in the ocean floor there. Researchers rep ...
African students get web link to MIT labs
Mar 22, 2005 |
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Students in Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria can now perform sophisticated engineering and science experiments at MIT--without ever getting on a plane. "If you can't come to the lab, the lab will come to you," said Jesus del ...
X-Rays signal presence of elusive intermediate-mass black hole
Mar 22, 2005 |
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Peculiar outbursts of X-rays coming from a black hole have provided evidence that it has a mass of about 10,000 Suns, which would place it in a possible new class of black holes. The timing and regularity ...
Fujitsu to Exhibit Advanced 12-Port, 10 Gigabit/Second Ethernet Switch IC
Mar 22, 2005 |
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Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) will demonstrate its advanced 12-port, 10Gbps Ethernet switch IC with integrated CX4 PHYs at the Fourth Annual Server Blade Summit Conference at the Santa Clara Marriott, March ...
IBM Introduces New Weapons in the Fight against Spam
Mar 22, 2005 |
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IBM today introduced new anti-spam technology to help companies reduce the cost and security risks associated with spam and make existing spam filtering solutions more effective. Dealing with spam is costing businesses a s ...
Left-right brain mystery - trail is hot and cold
Mar 22, 2005 |
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ANU researchers have developed a new device that could potentially unravel the mysteries of the left and right brain by measuring ear temperature. The device, which may also have medical applications, off ...
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