Archive: 06/27/2006
N.Z. Telecom forms retail, wholesale units
New Zealand Telecom is taking the long-awaited plunge and splitting its retail and wholesale operations into separate units.
Jun 27, 2006 |
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Shuttle Crew in Florida for Launch
(AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery's crew of seven arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday for this weekend's launch, a day after a top NASA engineer who praised his colleagues for voicing doubts about ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2006 |
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Americans more focused on achievement, less power-hungry
Today's U.S. college students are more focused on achievement than power, an attitude that could help them be more innovative and successful than foreign rivals, according to University of Michigan psychology research.
Jun 27, 2006 |
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NASA examines Hubble camera problem
NASA engineers continue to examine the issues surrounding a problem related to the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the agency's Hubble Space Telescope.
Jun 27, 2006 |
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Hubble Reveals Two Dust Disks Around Nearby Star
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed two dust disks circling the nearby star Beta Pictoris. The images confirm a decade of scientific speculation that a warp in the young star's dust disk may actually ...
Jun 27, 2006 |
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World Grid used to study protein folding
A team of U.S. scientists is using IBM's World Community Grid to be able to predict the structures of key proteins.
Jun 27, 2006 |
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Bombay Dabbawalas go high-tech
For over a century they delivered hot lunch in packages to thousands of Bombay's working people with almost faultless efficiency without the help of information technology. But now Bombay's ubiquitous Dabbawalas lunch deliverymen ...
Jun 27, 2006 |
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University of Missouri gets nano contract
The University of Missouri-Columbia has been given a $4.79 million Army contract to develop nanotechnologies that will improve military capabilities.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 27, 2006 |
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Broadcom launches new secure processor
Broadcom Corporation said Tuesday it has introduced the world's first secure processor with integrated RFID technology.
Jun 27, 2006 |
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Venice fights creeping Chinese seaweed
Venetian officials are reportedly fighting a fast-breeding giant creeping Chinese seaweed problem in the citie's fabled waterways.
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Jun 27, 2006 |
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The newest language for mobile text messaging looks like hieroglyphics and sounds like a caveman. The language is Zlango, and its creators aim to inject whimsy and emotion into text messaging while reducing ...
Jun 27, 2006 |
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Long-term co-evolution stability studied
U.S. biologists say the world's fungus-farming ants cultivate essentially the same fungus and aren't as critical to fungi reproduction as had been thought.
Biology /
Jun 27, 2006 |
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Scientist Will Examine Spider Silk Use for Sutures
A University of Wyoming molecular biologist will use the renewal of a half million dollar Air Force grant to develop spider silk for military and medical applications.
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Jun 27, 2006 |
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Mysterious Lunar Swirls
Picture this: A cup of coffee, steaming and black. Add a dollop of milk and gently stir. Eddies of cream go swirling around the cup. Magnify that image a million times and you've got a Lunar Swirl.
Jun 27, 2006 |
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Movies show nanotubes bend like sluggish guitar strings
In an exciting advance in nanotechnology imaging, Rice University scientists have discovered a way to use standard optical microscopes and video cameras to film individual carbon nanotubes – tiny cylinders ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 27, 2006 |
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