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ESA's comet chaser to fly by Earth

ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta will make a fly-by of planet Earth on 4 March 2005, and sky watchers should be able to see it with telescopes or binoculars if the sky is clear! Rosetta is approaching Earth from an ...

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Latest truck stopping technology has applications in site protection

Government buildings, power plants and other sensitive facilities that could be attacked by a hijacked tanker or truck may soon see an added layer of protection, thanks to a new variation of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s ...

Other Sciences /

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New iPod mini Starting at Just $199

Apple® today unveiled the second generation iPod® mini lineup with a new 4GB model priced at just $199 and a new 6GB model with 50 percent more storage priced at $249. Both iPod mini models feature increased ...

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Scientists discover why is the North Pole frozen

Ice has been building up in the Arctic for 2.7 million years. Until now, no-one has been able to prove what mechanism brought about this accumulation of ice. However, a team of international scientists led by Antoni Rosell, ...

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NASA Satellite Observes Mysterious Earth Energy

Scientists using observations from NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) satellite detected flashes of gamma ray energy in Earth's upper atmosphere in greater detail than ever before. RHESSI ...

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World’s Largest-capacity Multi-chip Package for Mobile Applications

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it is mass producing the world's largest-capacity multi-chip package (MCP). The new 2.5Gb MCP will enable multimedia-intensive ...

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Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem

New research from Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology finds that nanoparticles of gold and palladium are the most effective catalysts yet identified for remediation of one of the nation's ...

Nanotechnology /

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Black Holes in a radar trap

European astronomers succeeded for the first time to confirm the signatures predicted near Black Holes by Albert Einstein's theory of Relativity in the light of the cosmic X-ray background. The group of scientists ...

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AMD Continues Multi-Core Momentum With Dual-Core AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor

After garnering rave reviews for its multi-core server and workstation demos at LinuxWorld last week, AMD gave an encore performance today by demonstrating a dual-core AMD Athlon™ 64 processor, manufactured on 90nm technology. ...

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Apple Updates iPod photo Lineup

Apple® today updated its iPod® photo lineup by introducing a new slim 30GB model, holding up to 7,500 songs, for just $349 and a new 60GB model, holding up to 15,000 songs, for $449. Designed to take your entire ...

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Seeing the invisible – first dark galaxy discovered?

A British-led team of astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter – the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area in the universe containing ...

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