Archive: 05/25/2005
Physicists featured in NOVA documentary on Einstein's famous equation
Huge floodlights cut across the cavernous expanse of the Stanford Linear Detector and illuminate the outer wall of the control room. Coils of artificial fog seethe from a machine hidden at the end of a makeshift plank walkway ...
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How Your Garden Grows
Stumped scientists figure out plant growth mechanism Just how does your garden grow? Plant scientists have long pondered the same question. For decades, the plant science community has known that auxins--a ...
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mPhase and Bell Labs Announce Milestone in Sensor Development
First Sample of Device Made in New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium Fab mPhase Technologies, Inc. and Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, today announced that they have produced the first co ...
May 25, 2005 |
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New hydrogen sensor faster, more sensitive
The same kind of chemical coating used to shed rainwater from aircraft and automobile windows also dramatically enhances the sensitivity and reaction time of hydrogen sensors. Hydrogen sensor technology is a critical component ...
May 25, 2005 |
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AMD Releases 'Pacifica' Specification For AMD64 Technology
AMD today announced the general availability of the full specification of its virtualization technology, "Pacifica," at the LinuxWorld Summit. "Pacifica" is designed to enhance 64-bit client and server virtualization technologies ...
May 25, 2005 |
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Odd spot on Titan baffles scientists
Saturn's moon Titan shows an unusual bright spot that has scientists mystified. The spot, approximately the size and shape of West Virginia, is just southeast of the bright region called Xanadu and is visible ...
May 25, 2005 |
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Major losses projected for earthquake on little-known fault under Los Angeles
A new estimate of the effect of an earthquake along the Puente Hills fault shows that damage could occur on an unprecedented scale. An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 to 7.5 would result in 3,000 to 18,000 deaths, 142,000 to ...
May 25, 2005 |
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Discovery of distant planet offers hope for future finds closer to Earth
The discovery of a new planet by astronomers from institutions worldwide offers greater hope that researchers can eventually find planets that are closer in distance and size to Earth. The new planet is one of the most d ...
May 25, 2005 |
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Bose-Einstein Condensate Turns 10
Albert Einstein predicted it in 1924 but it wasn't until 1995 that scientists in a Boulder, Colo., laboratory were able to chill atoms to almost absolute zero and create a strange new form of matter called Bose-Einstein conden ...
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May 25, 2005 |
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Nuclear approach may help climate researchers pinpoint volcanic eruptions
There's gold in them thar rings. Tree rings that is, and Penn State researchers are using the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor to measure gold and link the rings to volcanic eruptions. "Initially, when we began thi ...
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May 25, 2005 |
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New Method for Imaging Dec. 26 Indian Ocean Earthquake Yields Unprecedented Results
The disastrous Dec. 26, 2004, earthquake in the Indian Ocean that generated an enormous tsunami and led to untold devastation for millions of people was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. Seismologists ...
May 25, 2005 |
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New Computing Cluster To Help Scientists Reconstruct The Tree Of Life
A new supercomputing cluster designed for the phylogenetic research community has been installed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The Cluster, a 16 node, 8-way Fusion A8 by Western Scientific, features a total of 128 ...
May 25, 2005 |
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Hitachi's New 15K RPM Enterprise Hard Drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced that it has begun shipping Ultrastar 15K147 hard drives with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel (4GFC) interfaces. SAS is a next-generation serial interface ...
May 25, 2005 |
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Scientists Discover Underwater Volcano
University of Oregon biologists on the first-ever manned submersible expedition to a newly discovered undersea volcano near Samoa report that warm water emanating from the volcano's summit supports a remarkable eel population.
May 25, 2005 |
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Oil Worth Its Weight in Gold in Directed Nanomachining
The world of nano-machines has moved a step closer to reality, thanks to researchers who have found a way to sculpt material at the nanoscale in a predictable, controllable and inexpensive manner by using a conducting liquid ...
May 25, 2005 |
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