Laser Wakefield Acceleration: Channeling the Best Beams Ever
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Sep 29, 2004 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a giant step toward realizing the promise of laser wakefield acceleration, by guiding and controlling extremely intense l ...
Scientists tame electron beams, bringing 'table top' particle accelerators a step closer
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Sep 29, 2004 |
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Scientists from the UK and the USA have successfully demonstrated a new technique that could help to shrink the size and cost of future particle accelerators for fundamental physics experiments and applications in materials and bio ...
New Supercomputing Center in Pittsburgh
Sep 29, 2004 |
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The U.S. academic community will soon have access to a new supercomputer modeled on the highest-performance systems currently being built in the United States, through a $9.7 million award to the Pittsburgh Supercomputin ...
Imagine Shoes that Are Forever Odor-Free! First Low-Cost Noble-Metal Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents
Sep 29, 2004 |
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Cost Breakthrough plus Polymer Manufacturing Compatibility Enables Vast Array of Antimicrobial Products, from Sneakers to Mascara NanoHorizons, Inc. today announced the availability of a low-cost line of concentrated, po ...
ARM Presents New Multimedia Technology And Latest On-Chip Interconnect
Sep 29, 2004 |
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At Fall Processor Forum, ARM will be presenting two of its newest technologies for one of the most knowledgeable technical audiences in chip design.
Extraterrestrial Communication
Sep 29, 2004 |
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In a cover story for the journal Nature, Christopher Rose, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers, contends that inscribing information and physically sending it to some location in deep s ...
Hitachi and HP Offer Industry-first High-performance 300 Gigabyte Drives for Server and Storage Solutions
Sep 29, 2004 |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and HP today announced availability of the industry's first storage and server solutions offering high-performance 300 gigabyte (GB) Fibre Channel and SCSI disk drive capacity. HP will offer the Hitachi Ultrastar 10K300 ...
Novel X-ray Source for X-ray Nanolithography
Sep 29, 2004 |
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JMAR Technologies, Inc. today announced that its Research Division has received $2 million in funding under its previously announced $34.5 million Department of Defense Contract (DARPA Contract). These funds apply to costs ...
World's first commercialization of Mercury-Free Silver Oxide Battery
Sep 29, 2004 |
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Sony Corporation today announced the accomplishment of the world's first Mercury-free silver oxide battery, which was considered difficult within the industry. Starting January 2005, 10 models of mercury-free batteries will be commercialized on a worl ...
High-End 4M pixels CMOS Image Sensor
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Cypress Semiconductor Corp today announced commercial sampling of the LUPA-4000-M CMOS image sensor from recently acquired FillFactory NV. Developed to address the specific imaging needs of the professiona ...
Large Asteroid Will Make Its Closest Approach to Earth Wednesday
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A mountain-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 9:35 a.m. EDT wednesday. Although asteroid 4179 Toutatis will come no closer than four times the distance between the Earth and the moon (app ...
New, Shape-Changing Materials Will Make Planes Like Hawks
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Over the next 17 months, Virginia Tech will lead a team of researchers exploring the development of a new class of materials that will use plant protein structures in an attempt to mimic biological systems. The De ...
ESO Views of Earth-Approaching Asteroid Toutatis
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Unique Photos from La Silla and Paranal Measure the Distance Today, September 29, 2004, is undisputedly the Day of Toutatis, the famous "doomsday" asteroid. Not since the year 1353 did this impressive "space rock" pas ...
Mars Drill Will Seek Knowledge and Resources
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It will be drilling for information first, then for resources, though oil is not likely to be among exploration targets. The futuristic drilling rig, under development at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, is designed for use on the moon or on ...
Bell Labs Researchers Push The Limits of Mobile Computing
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Researchers from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs are presenting two papers based on innovative research this week at MobiCom 2004 in Philadelphia, the premier international forum for mobile computing and wireless networki ...
