Modifications render carbon nanotubes nontoxic
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In follow-on work to last year's groundbreaking toxicological study on water-soluble buckyballs, researchers at Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) find that water-soluble carbon ...
Stanford innovation helps 'enlighten' silicon chips
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Oct 26, 2005 |
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Light can carry data at much higher rates than electricity, but it has always been too expensive and difficult to use light to transmit data among silicon chips in electronic devices. Now, electrical engineers at Stanford ...
Nanomolecular motor spins on a surface
Oct 26, 2005 |
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Netherlands scientists say they've developed the first molecular motor that rotates in just one direction while attached to a solid surface.
Color perception: Not in beholder's eye
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University of Rochester scientists say the first images of living human retinas have shown color perception differs dramatically among people.
'First Light' for the Large Binocular Telescope
Oct 26, 2005 |
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The two mirrors of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) have produced their first scientific images of space. The event, known among astronomers as ‛first light’, is a major milestone in the launch of ...
Cornell Finds Natural Selection in Humans
Oct 26, 2005 |
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The most detailed analysis to date of how humans differ from one another at the DNA level shows strong evidence that natural selection has shaped the recent evolution of our species, according to researchers from Cornell ...
Ice Beneath Mars Is Asking, 'Can You Hear Me Now?'
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In August 2003, as the twin Mars Exploration Rovers were barreling toward Mars in their flying saucers, scientists and engineers sent a radio signal disguised as the rovers' "voice" to the Odyssey orbiter ...
Telling the time of Earth's core formation
Oct 26, 2005 |
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Australian and Swiss scientists say they may have solved a mystery concerning conflicting formation times for the Earth's core.
Experimental Observation of 'Digital' Heat Flow
Oct 26, 2005 |
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The first observation of "digital" or quantized heat flow in a nanostructure at ambient conditions has been made by Caltech researchers using carbon nanotubes suspended between two electrodes.
Finnish over-clockers break 1 GHz graphics processor speed barrier
Oct 26, 2005 |
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An independent team of Finnish over-clockers has made world history by over-clocking a graphics processor to engine clock levels above 1 GHz. The record was set on the recently-announced Radeon X1800 XT graphics processor ...
Scientists track Siberian tiger cubs
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U.S. Wildlife Conservation Society researchers and their Russian colleagues have fitted three 40-day-old Siberian tiger cubs with radio tracking collars.
Electromechanical Imaging of Butterfly Wings and Other Biological Tissue
Oct 26, 2005 |
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Applying state-of-the-art technology to a seldom-exploited electromechanical property in biomolecules, Sergei Kalinin and Brian Rodriguez of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Alexei Gruverman of North Carolina State University ...
NASA Successfully Tests Space Shuttle Main Engine
Oct 26, 2005 |
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For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, NASA's Stennis Space Center, Miss., returned to its primary business Tuesday, testing space shuttle main engines.
Viewing the world though a baby's eyes
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Researchers at The University of Nottingham are studying the way in which babies look at colours and numbers in an attempt to find out more about how they view the world around them.
A new way to build 3G - Nokia launches new WCDMA base station
Oct 26, 2005 |
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Nokia today launched the Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Station. Based on a completely new platform, the high capacity Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Station is an innovation enabling operators to make more efficient use of their base station ...
