Nano-Grating DVDs could store 100 times more
May 24, 2005 |
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Iomega Corporation today announced that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued two highly notable patents to Iomega for its work with nano-technology and optical data storage, and external storage ...
Nanotech Researchers Develop High-Tech 'Smart Textile'
May 24, 2005 |
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Researchers at North Carolina State University are using emerging breakthroughs in nanotechnology to develop layers of "smart textiles" that will not only keep first responders and the military safe without sacrificing com ...
Polymer grid technology a boon for bridges
May 24, 2005 |
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When the long-awaited Highway 151 bypass around Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, opens later this year, vehicles traveling northbound will cross DeNeveu Creek on a bridge like no other in the country. Externally, the bridge looks ide ...
Voyager Spacecraft Enters Solar System's Final Frontier
May 24, 2005 |
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the solar system's final frontier. It is entering a vast, turbulent expanse, where the sun's influence ends and the solar wind crashes into the thin gas between stars. ...
New Resistance Measuring Method Provides More Accurate Results, Immediate
May 24, 2005 |
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Purchasing a new car may provide a great new ride, but it also comes with an additional payment each month. The daycare across town might be cheaper than the one next door, but it's an extra five-mile drive each day. Decisions ...
'Wet' Electrons Provide Easiest Way to Transport Charge
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May 24, 2005 |
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Technology has potential to produce clean fuel "if we could make it more efficient" The task of transporting electrical charges between metal-oxide and water phases is critical in such technologies as catalysis, sensors, and e ...
Marine sponge yields nanoscale secrets
May 24, 2005 |
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The simple marine sponge is inspiring cutting-edge research in the design of new materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A report about these exciting new results involving the use of gold nanoparticles is ...
Researchers Find Where Brain Learns to Make Decisions
May 24, 2005 |
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Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have pinpointed a circuit in the brain responsible for encoding decision-making behavior, a circuit that — if damaged — appears to prevent a person from altering that behavior when ...
NASA to put a laser in orbit around the Moon to map its surface
May 24, 2005 |
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by Patrick L. Barry Imagine trekking in a lunar rover across miles of the Moon's rough surface. Your mission: to explore a crater with suspected deposits of ice. In every direction, the gray terrain looks ...
Kodak Licenses OLED Technology to Fuji Electric Holdings
May 24, 2005 |
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Eastman Kodak Company said that Fuji Electric Holdings Co., Ltd. of Japan (Fuji) is a licensee of Kodak’s organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology, and is applying its license toward development of its own color conversion ...
New Epson HTPS Panels for 3LCD Projectors to Include Inorganic Alignment Layer
May 24, 2005 |
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Seiko Epson Corporation has developed new high temperature poly-silicon (HTPS) panel technology incorporating an inorganic alignment layer for use in 3LCD projectors. In addition to maintaining the bright ...
World's First Video Stream Server Capable of Handling up to Ten Uncompressed HDTV Video Streams
May 24, 2005 |
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. today announced a PC cluster-based, video stream product, named the i-Visto eXmedia server, which can simultaneously handle up to ten 1.5-Gbps of uncompressed high definition television ...
Elpida's 512 Megabyte DDR2 SO-DIMMs Offer Low-Power Operation, Improved Thermal Performance for Notebooks
May 24, 2005 |
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Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced its 512 Megabyte DDR2 Small-Outline Dual In-line Memory Modules (SO-DIMMs). The modules utilize next-generation ...
Scientists use meteors to investigate climate change and giant waves at the 'edge of space'
May 24, 2005 |
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A new research radar based in Antarctica is giving scientists the chance to study the highest layer of the earth’s atmosphere at the very edge of space. Using the new radar, scientists will be able to inv ...
Space Shuttle Discovery Rolled From Launch Pad
May 24, 2005 |
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Technicians are preparing to roll Space Shuttle Discovery from the launch pad to the Vehicle Assembly Building, now scheduled for early morning Thursday, May 26. Once there, Orbiter Discovery will be removed from its External ...
