The Asus Eee Laptop Series Selling Off the Shelves World Wide
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 26, 2007 |
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The sturdy and light weight Asus Eee has captured the hearts and minds of US consumers, students and educators. The Eee series has all the features of its competitors, but its affordable price is turning heads. ...
Nanodevices could use quantized current to operate future electronics
Nov 26, 2007 |
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For the past several decades, virtually all electronics devices have been based on the CMOS logic system, which uses semiconductors and transistors to form digital circuits. However, researchers today are investigating the ...
Smarter energy storage for solar and wind power
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Development of the first hybrid battery suitable for storing electricity from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind is now a step closer.
Researcher finds materialism in children and adolescents linked to self-esteem
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Peer pressure, targeted marketing campaigns and bad parenting have all been blamed for increasing materialism in children. Until now, there has been little evidence showing when this drive for material goods emerges in kids ...
Quantum physics 'rules' -- Australian scientists create world's most accurate 'ruler'
Nov 26, 2007 |
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NEVER try telling a quantum physicist that near enough is good enough – Australian researchers have invented a technique that, for the first time, measures lengths as accurately as the laws of physics allow. ...
Studies of ancient supercontinent don't match up
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2007 |
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For a quarter-century or more, the prevailing view among geoscientists—supported by paleomagnetic records in rock—has been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern ...
Gene study supports single main migration across Bering Strait
Biology /
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Did a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the native peoples of North and South America?
Organic Transistors: Researchers produce high performance field-effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. The ability ...
New Drought-tolerant Plants Offer Hope for Warming World
Biology /
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Genetically engineered crop plants that survive droughts and can grow with 70 percent less irrigation water have been developed by an international team led by researchers at the University of California, ...
Scientists melt million-year-old ice in search of ancient microbes
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Nov 26, 2007 |
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Researchers from the University of Delaware and the University of California at Riverside have thawed ice estimated to be at least a million years old from above Lake Vostok, an ancient lake that lies hidden ...
Flowering plants evolved very quickly into 5 groups
Biology /
Nov 26, 2007 |
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University of Florida and University of Texas at Austin scientists have shed light on what Charles Darwin called the “abominable mystery” of early plant evolution.
Dunes, climate models don't match up with paleomagnetic records
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2007 |
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For a quarter-century or more, the prevailing view among geoscientists has been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah shifted more than 1,300 miles north ...
Major advances made in predicting crystal structures
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Researchers have met the challenge of predicting the crystal structures of small organic molecules by computational methods without experimental input, a goal that has been described as the Holy Grail of crystallography.
Nanoswitches Toggled by Light
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close—on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises”, as they report ...
'Cocktail' of compounds improves brain function in rodents
Nov 26, 2007 |
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MIT researchers have shown that a cocktail containing three compounds normally in the blood stream promotes growth of new brain connections and improves cognitive function in rodents. The treatment is now being tested in ...
