Archive: 06/29/2005
Shark attack worries? Driving to the beach is more deadly
Which is more likely to happen - you being in a car wreck or being bitten by a shark? Those who answered that cars are greater killers win a free trip to the beach. It's really no contest, says a Texas A&M University pro ...
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Female butterflies go for sparkle - not size - when choosing to mate
Size doesn't matter, at least not the size of the eyespots on a male butterfly's wings when female butterflies consider potential mates. Instead, females are attracted to the "sparkle" created by the ult ...
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NCAR Analysis Shows Widespread Pollution from 2004 Wildfires
Wildfires in Alaska and Canada in 2004 emitted about as much carbon monoxide as did human-related activities in the continental United States during the same time period, according to new research by the National Center for ...
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Nanotechnology hold promise for new hydrogen fuel technologies
Nanotechnology may hold the key to developing a viable hydrogen economy, according to Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Zhang will receive $535,000 in grants from ...
Jun 29, 2005 |
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Era of Next-generation Electronics Draws Closer with the Discovery of Spintronics
Spintronics – the pioneering new technology, wherein both the charge and spin of an electron is used to carry information – is generating great excitement in the world of technology for its immense potential in a wide variety of ...
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Faster Climate Change Predicted as Air Quality Improves
Global warming may proceed faster and be more severe than previously predicted according to research about to be published in the scientific journal Nature. Reductions in airborne particle pollution, or aerosols, as air qu ...
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Philips launches global initiative to develop solutions for ultra low-cost mobile phones
Sets out roadmap for sub-$5 hardware and software platform to drive handset costs below $20 Royal Philips Electronics today announced a global initiative to develop ultra low-cost mobile phones to bring the benefits of the t ...
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NTT Com Unveils Next Generation Global Super Link Service
NTT Communications announced today that the company will launch Global Super Link, a virtual end-to-end Ethernet data transmission service. The service will be available between Japan and the United States on July 1st, 2005, ...
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Storm costs to spiral, says report
The global costs of extreme weather could rise by two-thirds within decades unless governments tackle the causes of climate change, a report warned Wednesday.
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Digital music players pose security risk
A Purdue University expert says the growing use of miniature digital music players poses a security risk because they can store huge quantities of information.
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NEC's Multimedia Message Adaptation System is designed to expand the introduction of multimedia services on mobile phone
NEC has started to offer its Multimedia Message Adaptation System (MMAS) for Japanese market. The Multimedia Content Adaptation Solution is a server software system that optimizes video, photo and other data for various types ...
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Motorola calls on Congress for increased funding of nanotechnology
Jim O’Connor, vice president of Technological Commercialization at Motorola, Inc., testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives Science Subcommittee on Research to share Motorola’s thoughts on where the United ...
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Micron Introduces Very Low Profile Memory Modules in the 512 Mb and 1 Gb Densities
Micron Technology, Inc., today announced the availability of 512 megabyte and 1 gigabyte double data rate (DDR) and DDR2 very low profile (VLP) registered dual-inline memory modules (RDIMMs). Micron's VLP DDR RDIMMs are designed ...
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New Chem-bio Sensors Offer Simultaneous Monitoring
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Vienna University of Technology have developed a modular system that combines chemical and biological sensing tools capable of providing simultaneous, ...
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Geophysicists image rock layers under Himalaya
New technique developed to visualize colliding rock bodies A team of geophysicists at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a new technique to visualize the colliding rock bodies beneath the Himalaya with unp ...
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