Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Evidence is mounting: the next solar cycle is going to be a big one. Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 "looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost ...
Slower light could mean faster computers
Dec 22, 2006 |
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IBM today announced its researchers have built a device capable of delaying the flow of light on a silicon chip, a requirement to one day allow computers to use optical communications to achieve better performance.
New research could lead to 'invisible' electronics
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Imagine a car windshield that displays a map to your destination, military goggles with targets and instructions displayed right before a soldier's eyes or a billboard that doubles as a window.
Laser experiments reveal strange properties of superfluids
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Princeton University electrical engineers are using lasers to shed light on the behavior of superfluids -- strange, frictionless liquids that are difficult to create and study. Their technique allows them to ...
Scientists demonstrate ultra-secure, long-distance quantum key distribution
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder have demonstrated unconditionally secure quantum key distribution (QKD) over a record-setting 107 kilometers of ...
Russian mathematician wins science award
Dec 22, 2006 |
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A Russian mathematician's solution to a 100-year-old math puzzle was voted Breakthrough of the Year by Science, a leading scientific journal.
NIST laser-based method cleans up grubby nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Before carbon nanotubes can fulfill their promise as ultrastrong fibers, electrical wires in molecular devices, or hydrogen storage components for fuel cells, better methods are needed for purifying raw nanotube ...
First Images from Hinode Offer New Clues About Our Violent Sun
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Instruments aboard a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency satellite named Hinode, or "Sunrise," are returning extraordinary new images of our sun. The international mission to study the forces that drive the ...
NIST to Preserve 1507 Map: America's 'Birth Certificate'
Dec 22, 2006 |
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What does the Library of Congress (LOC) do when it wants to preserve a 500-year-old map, the only known copy of the first world map to call America “America?”
New Chicago-Indiana computer network prepared to handle massive data flow
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Massive quantities of data will soon begin flowing from the largest scientific instrument ever built into an international network of computer centers, including one operated jointly by the University of Chicago ...
Caribbean Earthquake Model
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of Arkansas and Purdue University have monitored tiny tectonic movements in the Caribbean to create the first comprehensive and quantitative kinematic model describing potential earthquake activity ...
Protection against cancer may begin during pregnancy
Dec 22, 2006 |
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There may be another reason for pregnant and nursing women to eat a nutritious diet that includes generous amounts of cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cabbage – it could help protect their children from cancer, both ...
Samsung Develops 1/4 inch 3-megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Ultra Slim Camera Phones
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced the world's first 3-megapixel (M-pixel) CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a 1/4-inch lens aperture that is well suited for ...
Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million
Dec 22, 2006 |
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In recent years, health professionals and the general public alike have been acutely aware of the potential ravages that could result from a flu pandemic. Although many people might still recall the pandemics of 1968 and ...
Neurons targeted by dementing illness may have evolved for complex social cognition
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Von Economo neurons (VENs) are uniquely shaped brain cells that seem to have evolved in a select group of socially complex species: great apes, humans, and, as reported last month, whales.
