H2CAR could fuel entire U.S. transportation sector
Apr 24, 2007 |
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In a recent study, scientists have demonstrated that a hybrid system of hydrogen and carbon can produce a sufficient amount of liquid hydrocarbon fuels to power the entire U.S. transportation sector. Using ...
Revamped experiment could detect elusive particle, physicists say
Apr 24, 2007 |
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An experiment called "shining light through walls" would seem hard to improve upon. But University of Florida physicists have proposed a way to do just that, a step they say considerably improves the chance of detecting one ...
Scientists make major breakthrough in regenerative medicine
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Findings described in a new study by Stanford scientists may be the first step toward a major revolution in human regenerative medicine—a future where advanced organ damage can be repaired by the body itself. In the May 2007 ...
Discovery of new family of pseudo-metallic chemicals
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie allows scientists to manipulate a molecule discov ...
Next-generation, high-performance processor unveiled
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Apr 24, 2007 |
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The prototype for a revolutionary new general-purpose computer processor, which has the potential of reaching trillions of calculations per second, has been designed and built by a team of computer scientists ...
Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Termites and fungi already know how to digest cellulose, but the human process of producing ethanol from cellulose remains slow and expensive. The central bottleneck is the sluggish rate at which the cellulose ...
Hubble's 17th anniversary -- extreme star birth in the Carina Nebula
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Hubble's new view of the Carina Nebula shows the process of star birth at a new level of detail. The bizarre landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet ...
U.S. Falling Behind in Broadband Penetration
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The U.S. Senate will be told Tuesday that the U.S. is barely above the midpoint of broadband deployment within developed nations – and it's getting worse.
Linux Kernel Reaps the Fruits of Real-Time Technology
Apr 24, 2007 |
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More than half of the 1.2 million lines of code for the real-time kernel technology have been moved into the mainline Linux kernel over the past year.
New model describes avalanche behavior of superfluid helium
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By utilizing ideas developed in disparate fields, from earthquake dynamics to random-field magnets, researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed a model that describes the avalanche-like, phase-slip cascades ...
Study of Planarians Offers Insight into Germ Cell Development
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Apr 24, 2007 |
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The planarian is not as well known as other, more widely used subjects of scientific study – model creatures such as the fruit fly, nematode or mouse. But University of Illinois cell and developmental biology ...
Ultrasound upgrade produces images that work like 3-D movies
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Parents-to-be might soon don 3-D glasses in the ultrasound lab to see their developing fetuses in the womb "in living 3-D, just like at the IMAX movies," according to researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.
Blu-ray Burning Its High-def DVD Rival
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Of the high-definition discs bought by consumers in the first quarter, 70 percent were in the Blu-ray Disc format and 30 percent were HD DVD, according to sales figures provided by trade publication Home Media Magazine.
AMD Sets Prices on New Opteron Models
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The company first introduced the two models early this month and all four major OEMs are promising systems that incorporate the new chips.
Sea snails break the law
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Lizards gave rise to legless snakes. Cave fishes don’t have eyeballs. In evolution, complicated structures often get lost. Dollo’s Law states that complicated structures can't be re-evolved because the genes ...
