Archive: 04/22/2005
Microbial fuel cell: High yield hydrogen source and wastewater cleaner
Using a new electrically-assisted microbial fuel cell (MFC) that does not require oxygen, Penn State environmental engineers and a scientist at Ion Power Inc. have developed the first process that enables bacteria to coax ...
Apr 22, 2005 |
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Quantum wires to be used as power cables for next-gen spacecraft
NASA has awarded Rice University's Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory a four-year, $11 million contract to produce a prototype power cable made entirely of carbon nanotubes.
Apr 22, 2005 |
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Scientists will develop medical and biological applications of ultra-small science
Manmade molecules that deliver drugs directly to sick cells, tiny sensors that monitor oxygen levels in the bloodstream, molecular surgery to remove defective genes - it all sounds like science fiction. But the basic technology ...
Apr 22, 2005 |
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Movie Clip Shows Whirlwinds Carrying Dust on Mars
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is taking movies of dust devils -- whirlwinds carrying dust -- scooting across a plain on Mars.
Apr 22, 2005 |
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Toshiba Launches Charge Pump White LED Driver With Constant Current Regulator
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)* today announced a new charge pump DC/DC converter IC that drives the white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) used to backlight liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels and illuminate ...
Apr 22, 2005 |
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Fujitsu Announces New Highly Integrated WiMAX SoC
Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) today introduced its highly integrated WiMAX system-on-chip, the MB87M3400, which complies with the IEEE802.16-2004 standard and will enable development of a new ...
Apr 22, 2005 |
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PSU data fusion software is brain for new chemical weapon sensor
By combining three different chemical vapor detectors with data fusion software developed at Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), researchers have developed a prototype system to reduce the number of false alarms ...
Apr 22, 2005 |
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Living metals
Using Synchrotron x-ray microbeams, a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart and the ESRF has been able to observe for the first time that the microscopic structure of a crystalline material ...
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Apr 22, 2005 |
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Solar Wind Originates in Coronal Funnels
The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft determines the origin of the fast solar wind in the magnetized atmosphere of the Sun A Chinese-German team of scientists have identified the magnetic structures in the solar corona w ...
Apr 22, 2005 |
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Buying Time Through 'Hibernation on Demand'
Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have, for the first time, induced a state of reversible metabolic hibernation in mice. This achievement, the first demonstration of "hibernation on demand" ...
Apr 22, 2005 |
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Antarctic Peninsula glaciers in widespread retreat, study finds
The first comprehensive study of glaciers around the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula reveals the real impact of recent climate change. Results from the study by researchers at British Antarctic Survey (BA ...
Apr 22, 2005 |
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