Archive: 02/24/2005
A Prototype Next-Generation Mobile Phone Fuel Cell With High Output Power
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation have developed a prototype micro polymer-electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC)1 that uses hydrogen gas as a fuel and is small enough to directly fit in a mobile phone. Under ...
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Seagate Ships 6GB 1-Inch Hard Drive, Highest Capacity in the Industry
Seagate, the world's leading maker of consumer electronics hard drives, announced today it is shipping the industry's highest capacity 1-inch hard drive, a new 6GB model of its popular 1-inch ST1 Series hard drive for handheld ...
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World's First HTPS LCD Panel Using Inorganic Alignmnet Layer
Representing the latest technology in precise liquid crystal alignment, Sony Corporation announced today the successful development of the world's first HTPS LCD panel for front projector TV sets, has increased ...
Feb 24, 2005 |
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NASA Astrobiologist Identifies New 'Extreme' Life Form
The end of a scientific journey -- started five years ago in a frozen tunnel deep below the Alaska tundra -- came in January for NASA astrobiologist Dr. Richard Hoover. It proved a long, arduous journey for Hoover and his ...
Feb 24, 2005 |
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Replace Kilogram Artifact Now With Definition Based on Nature, Experts Say
It’s time to replace the 115-year-old kilogram artifact as the world's official standard for mass, even though experiments generally thought necessary to achieve this goal have not yet reached their targeted level of precision, ...
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NIST Unveils Atom-based Standards
Gaithersburg, MD--Device features on computer chips as small as 40 nanometers (nm) wide—less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair—can now be measured reliably thanks to new test structures developed ...
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Organic molecules transport strongest spectral signature of interplanetary dust particles
Using a transmission electron microscope, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have detected a 5.7-electron volt or 2175 Å (angstrom) wavelength feature in interstellar grains that were embedded ...
Feb 24, 2005 |
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Saturn's A Ring has oxygen, but not life
Data from the Cassini-Huygens satellite showing oxygen ions in the atmosphere around Saturn's rings suggests once again that molecular oxygen alone isn't a reliable indicator of whether a planet can support life. ...
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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Continues Making New Discoveries
NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues making new and exciting discoveries. New findings include wandering and rubble-pile moons; new and clumpy Saturn rings; splintering storms and a dynamic magnetosphere. "For the ...
Feb 24, 2005 |
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Duke, Woods Hole Geologists Discover 'Clockwork' Motion by Ocean Floor Microplates
A team of geologists from Duke University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has discovered a grinding, coordinated ballet of crustal "microplates" unfolding below the equatorial east Pacific Ocean ...
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Scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
New hope for sufferers of glaucoma and spinal cord injuries For the first time, scientists have regenerated a damaged optic nerve -- from the eye to the brain. This achievement, which occurred in laboratory mice and is ...
Feb 24, 2005 |
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Scientists entice superconducting devices to act like atoms
Advance marks progress toward quantum computer made with 'artificial atoms' Two superconducting devices have been coaxed into a special, interdependent state that mimics the unusual interactions sometimes seen in pairs of atom ...
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Out of this world: Parade of Mars rovers unveiled at UH competition
Third annual event attracts future scientists, yields innovative designs Young scientists and engineers fired up their model cars for a journey to a distant planet during the 2005 Mars Rover Model Competition at the University of ...
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UNC researchers study fuel cells, focus on portable possibilities
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is among the newest participants in a statewide alliance formed last summer to explore renewable and efficient energy sources. UNC is participating in the N.C. Fuel Cell All ...
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Regents approve pioneering nanosystems degree
The Louisiana Board of Regents granted final approval Thursday for Louisiana Tech to offer the nanosystems engineering degree program, the first such program in the nation. Tech’s new Bachelor of Science degree program wil ...
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