Scientists find missing link between the whale and its closest relative, the hippo
Jan 25, 2005 |
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For those not yet convinced that hippos and whales are first cousins, a UC Berkeley researcher has the definitive proof. A group of four-footed mammals that flourished worldwide for 40 million years and the ...
Petrified Wood in Days
Jan 25, 2005 |
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California has Silicon Valley. Could a Silicon Forest in Washington be next? A team of materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is on it. Yongsoon Shin and colleagues at the Department of ...
Evidence builds for supernova's role in solar system creation
Jan 25, 2005 |
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Clear evidence in a Chinese meteorite for the past presence of chlorine-36, a short-lived radioactive isotope, lends further support to the controversial concept that a nearby supernova blast was involved in ...
Physics failure could mean success
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Jan 25, 2005 |
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It might sound like a bit of a surprise, but a handful of scientists participating in the $4-billion international experiment to discover the Higgs boson, the Holy Grail of particle physics, hope the effort fails. The Large Had ...
Yellowstone microbes fueled by hydrogen
Jan 25, 2005 |
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Microbes living in the brilliantly colored hot springs of Yellowstone National Park use primarily hydrogen for fuel, a discovery University of Colorado at Boulder researchers say bodes well for life in extreme environments ...
Thinking of prepositions turns brain 'on' in different ways
Jan 25, 2005 |
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Parts of the human brain think about the same word differently, at least when it comes to prepositions, according to new language research in stroke patients conducted by scientists at Purdue University and the University ...
How do cells travel through our bodies?
Jan 25, 2005 |
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One of the most basic yet least understood processes in our bodies is how cells crawl along tissues. This behavior is essential to the formation of an embryo and other processes, but it must be tightly controlled. A disturbance ...
Tyan, NVIDIA to Enable Next-Gen Workstation and Server Platforms
Jan 25, 2005 |
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Workstation and server applications are constantly driving the call for higher-power systems. In order to deliver the next-generation of platforms to meet the most demanding application challenges, Tyan has partnered with ...
Brewer Science, Nantero to commercialize carbon nanotube solution for nonvolatile memory
Jan 25, 2005 |
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Brewer Science, Inc., announced that it has entered into an agreement with Nantero, Inc., of Woburn, Massachusetts, to commercialize CMOS-grade carbon nanotube solution utilizing processes developed by Nantero. This will ...
In-Stat Selects AMD Athlon 64 Fx-55 As Best Desktop Processor Of 2004
Jan 25, 2005 |
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AMD announced today that high-tech market research firm In-Stat selected the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-55 processor as best desktop processor of 2004. In-Stat Microprocessor Report recognized the AMD Athlon 64 FX pro ...
Cymer partners with IMEC on immersion lithography
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Cymer, Inc., the world's leading supplier of deep ultraviolet (DUV) light sources used in semiconductor manufacturing, today announced the integration of a Cymer XLA 105 argon fluoride (ArF) light source on a 0.85 numerical ...
National Provides Security for Notebooks With Its SafeKeeper Trusted I/O Device
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IBM Is First Manufacturer to Equip Notebooks With National’s Trusted Platform Module National Semiconductor announced today that IBM selected National’s SafeKeeper Notebook Trusted Input/Output security device for I ...
Scientist to Work With NASA's Lunar Orbiter
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NASA has selected Mark S. Robinson, research associate professor of geological sciences in Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, as one of six scientists to provide instrumentation and associated ...
UCSC astronomer awarded top high-energy astronomy prize for work on supernovae and gamma-ray bursts
Jan 25, 2005 |
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Stan Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has won this year's Bruno Rossi Prize for his pioneering work on supernovae and gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions ...
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