Archive: 04/28/2005
Researchers merge game theory with wireless networks, create 'smarter' garments
Using economic theory to improve wireless communications networks and designing garments that can sense their own shapes are among the goals of two National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development ...
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Ray of light for water industry
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen are developing new technology that uses sunlight to treat dirty water and create electricity simultaneously. The three industrial partners - OpTIC Technium, Yorkshire Water and Sco ...
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Scientists conclude Earth's energy is 'out of balance'
Using satellites, data from buoys and computer models to study the Earth's oceans, scientists have concluded that more energy is being absorbed from the Sun than is emitted back to space, throwing the Earth's ...
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'All-optical' switch could advance light-based telecommunications
Duke University physicists have developed a switching technique that uses a very weak beam of light to control a much stronger beam. The achievement could make optical telecommunications devices perform far more efficiently, ...
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Laser scientist illuminates research in living color
In art, color is information. Just look at a painting by an artist such as Monet: Each uniquely hued brushstroke brings to life a new blade of grass, a leaf, a flower petal, a slice of sky-each a component ...
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Researchers devise nano-scale method for investigating living systems
By observing how tiny specks of crystal move through the layers of a biological membrane, a team of electrical and computer engineers and biologists has devised a new method for investigating living systems on the molecular ...
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Nano-engineered Powders Tackle Toxic Chemicals
Thirsty grains act fast to clean up messes Composed of magnesium, titanium and oxygen, the toxic-chemical cleaner known as FAST-ACT is unremarkable at first glance. Yet, this new family of powders packs a pu ...
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Photoemission 100 years after Einstein
In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize not for his work on relativity, but for solving a puzzle that had baffled scientists since 1887 – the photoelectric effect. In one of the three ground-breaking papers he published in 1905 ...
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Cisco and IBM to Deliver New Speech-Enabled Self-Service Solutions
IBM and Cisco today announced they jointly plan to deliver to contact centers speech-enabled self-service solutions that combine IBM's WebSphere Voice Server product and Cisco's Customer Voice Portal. The solutions would com ...
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Apple Upgrades Power Mac G5 Line
New Power Mac Features Dual 2.7 GHz Processors & Mac OS X "Tiger" Apple today unveiled the fastest, most powerful Power Mac G5 desktop line ever, featuring dual 64-bit PowerPC G5 processors running up to 2.7 GHz and inc ...
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LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation
May provide opportunity to convert finite oil resource to long-term production of natural gas Luca Technologies LLC today announced that its researchers have confirmed the presence of a resident, methane-generating community of microorg ...
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'Wonderful' star reveals its hot nature
For the first time an X-ray image of a pair of interacting stars has been made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The ability to distinguish between the interacting stars – one a highly evolved giant sta ...
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Researchers drill historic hole in atlantic ocean floor
Researchers from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) have drilled into sections of the Earth's crust for the first time ever, and their findings could provide new insights about how Earth was formed. Scientists abo ...
Apr 28, 2005 |
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Cassini Captures Swiss-Cheese Look of Saturn Moon
An image of Saturn's small moon, Epimetheus (epp-ee-MEE-thee-uss), was captured by the Cassini spacecraft in the closest view ever taken of the pockmarked body.
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Setting new standards for broadband Internet
The market for broadband Internet services is expanding rapidly as the advantages of high speed connections are becoming apparent to end users. Companies all over the world are competing to feed this demand by developing ...
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