Strained silicon carries light for cheaper commercial electronics
May 23, 2006 |
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By physically compressing a silicon waveguide – and thus allowing variations in the way light travels through the material – scientists have discovered a key to creating a silicon electro-optic modulator. This ...
A Quantum CPU: the Pentium Q?
May 23, 2006 |
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A new design scheme for a quantum processor core makes potential quantum computers more technically feasible, more efficient, and in many cases faster by keeping all of the quantum bits active all the time, rather than switching ...
How Did Continents Split? Geology Study Shows New Picture
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 23, 2006 |
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Like pieces in a giant jigsaw puzzle, continents have split, drifted and merged again many times throughout Earth’s history, but geologists haven’t understood the mechanism behind the moves. A new study now ...
Samsung Launches World's First PCs with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk
May 23, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics will release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD). This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing ...
Hubble Captures a 'Five-Star' Rated Gravitational Lens
May 23, 2006 |
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The multiple-image effect seen in the Hubble picture is produced by a process called gravitational lensing, in which the gravitational field of a massive object -- in this case, a cluster of galaxies -- bends ...
Sweet success for pioneering hydrogen energy project
May 23, 2006 |
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Bacteria that can munch through confectionery could be a valuable source of non-polluting energy in the years ahead, new research has shown. In a feasibility study funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences ...
Latest weapons in spam battle are images
May 23, 2006 |
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Like all wars, the campaign against junk e-mail -- spam -- is marked along the way with victories and casualties. It's an "ever-escalating battle," the senior director of marketing at anti-spam company Commtouch, ...
Physical problems are 1st Alzheimer's sign
May 23, 2006 |
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The first signs of dementia and Alzheimer's disease are physical rather than mental, Washington researchers say of a study that produced surprising results.
Hard-nosed Advice to Lunar Prospectors
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 23, 2006 |
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Long before David Beaty became associate Chief Scientist for NASA's Mars Program, he was a prospector. Beaty spent 10 years surveying remote parts of Earth for precious metals and another 12 years hunting for ...
Nano World: Nano-loaded wireless sensors
May 23, 2006 |
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Devices the size of a dime armed with reprogrammable sensors, laden with nanoparticles and wirelessly networked with each other could help sniff the air for bombs and toxins on battlefields, experts tell UPI's Nano World.
Study shows unhealthy bacteria in Southern California beach sand
May 23, 2006 |
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Sunbathers heading for a day at the beach in Southern California may have more to worry about than sunscreen. A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows that bacteria ...
Carbon-based quantum dots could mean 'greener' technology in medicine, biology
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 23, 2006 |
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Chemists at Clemson University say they have developed a new type of quantum dot that is the first to be made from carbon. Like their metal-based counterparts, these nano-sized "carbon dots" glow brightly when ...
Children's sex affects parents' marital status
May 23, 2006 |
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Parents with a boy and a girl are more likely to stay married, or get married if they were unmarried when their children were born, than those with two boys or two girls according to new research from ANU economist Dr Andrew ...
Intel's Core Microarchitecture Sets New Records in Performance and Energy Efficiency
May 23, 2006 |
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Intel today disclosed record breaking results on 20 key dual-processor (DP) server and workstation benchmarks. The first processor due to launch based on the new Intel Core microarchitecture — the Dual-Core ...
AT&T's NSA legal woes continue to grow
May 23, 2006 |
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AT&T has flatly denied the allegations, but the telecommunications giant continues to be mired by reports that it and other major carriers have gone out of their way to cooperate with the U.S. government to ...
