Archive: 05/26/2005
Naked carbon/oxygen stars linked to gamma-ray bursts
Observations by two of the world's largest telescopes provide strong evidence that a peculiar type of exploding star may be the origin of elusive gamma-ray bursts that have puzzled scientists for more than 30 years. A tea ...
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More Energy Efficient and 'Smart': Solid State Lighting Potential Grows
"Smart" solid-state light sources now being developed not only have the potential to provide significant energy savings, but also offer new opportunities for applications that go well beyond the lighting provided ...
May 26, 2005 |
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Study Suggests Deadlines Intensify Emotions
Amateur observers and scholars alike have remarked that older people often have more intense and complex emotional lives than their younger cohort. What accounts for the difference, wondered psychologist Ursina Teuscher: ...
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Intel unveils two new platforms for home and office PCs
Intel Corporation today unveiled two new platforms for home and office PCs. The new platforms, which combine key hardware and software technologies, are designed to provide consumers the ability to do more ...
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Argonne to study fuel cell catalysts
Argonne National Laboratory will receive $3 million over three years for basic science studies that may lead to improved catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells.
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New opportunities from old chemistry in surface science
Some century-old chemistry could have a strong impact on important issues in biosensors and other nanotech devices, according to a Purdue University research group. A team led by Alexander Wei has shown that amines, a lar ...
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Samsung Calls for Next Generation LCD Glass Size Standardization
Samsung Electronics, the leader in thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) technology, today called for a standardization of LCD glass sizes in a speech by its LCD Business president, Sang Wan Lee delivered ...
May 26, 2005 |
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Fujitsu Announces the Latest Version of 10Gbps Ethernet Switch Chip
Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. (FLA), innovators in advanced networking technology, today introduced the latest version of the single-chip 10Gbps Ethernet ...
May 26, 2005 |
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Solving the Mysteries of Quarks
Particle Physicists are embarking on a new attempt to solve the mysteries of quarks with the completion of the three most powerful supercomputers ever applied to this problem, including one at the University ...
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May 26, 2005 |
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Students' payload to help NASA test high-altitude 'research lab'
When NASA launches its new Deep Space Test Bed (DSTB) facility later this month, an experiment designed and built by undergraduate students in the College of Engineering will be aboard.
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Spam, spam everywhere -- How can we control it?
According to Phillip Laplante, associate professor of software engineering at Penn State Great Valley, the answer as to why spam is omnipresent is two-fold: it's easy to create and distribute, and it's economically advantageous ...
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Pushing the Boundaries of High-Temperature Superconductors
A collaboration led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has revealed a new mechanism that explains why adding calcium to a high-temperature superconductor increases its current-carrying capacity. The findings refute the current exp ...
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ATI Leads High-Definition Video Transition On PCs
ATI Technologies Inc. solidifies its PC video and display leadership with the first public demonstration of high-definition H.264 video playback with hardware acceleration on the PC platform. H.264 is the video compression ...
May 26, 2005 |
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A koala's guide to the treetop buffet
The way that koalas in the wild distinguish between thousands of types of potentially nauseating tree leaves when eating has been revealed by ANU researchers. In the same way that humans learn to avoid foo ...
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Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe
Biomedical engineers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have created a new three-dimensional ultrasound cardiac imaging probe. Inserted inside the esophagus, the probe creates a picture of the whole heart in ...
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