New Nanomaterial, 'NanoBuds,' Combines Fullerenes and Nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Researchers have created a hybrid carbon nanomaterial that merges single-walled carbon nanotubes and spherical carbon-atom cages called fullerenes. The new structures, dubbed NanoBuds because they resemble ...
Blackboard Problems Leave Vista on Double-Secret Probation
Mar 30, 2007 |
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On college campuses, Microsoft's Vista operating system may be in danger of failing courses that use Blackboard, a key software program for communication between teachers and students.
Abrupt climate change more common than believed
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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It came on quickly and then lasted nearly two decades, eventually killing more than one million people and affecting 50 million more. All of this makes the Sahel drought, which first struck West Africa in the late 1960s, ...
Tesla Roadster: Test Driving Your Electric Dream Car
Mar 30, 2007 |
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We take a ride in the Tesla Roadster, a 100-percent electric car inspired by PC technology. Due on the market this fall for under $100K, the Roadster does zero to 60 in 4 seconds.
New algorithms improve automated image labeling
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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A Google image search for "tiger" yields many tiger photos – but also returns images of a tiger pear cactus stuck in a tire, a racecar, Tiger Woods, the boxer Dick Tiger, Antarctica, and many others. Why? Today’s ...
Ancient rock collisions may have formed Western Australia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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A new 3D picture of the geology of Western Australia, captured by measuring seismic waves from deep in the Earth’s crust, has provided evidence that it was created when vast regions of ancient world slammed into each other.
Oil production in the world close to peak
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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In a worst-case scenario, global oil production may reach its peak next year, before starting to decline. In a best-case scenario, this peak would not be reached until 2018. These are the estimates made by Fredrik Robelius, ...
Traces of nanobubbles determine nano-boiling
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Using a microscope and some extreme “snapshot” photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have uncovered ...
Alcatel Rolls Out Spring Line of Fashion Phones
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Alcatel, a French/Chinese phone maker is making a big splash in the U.S. this year, with twenty – yes, twenty – phones for the U.S. market. The look? Chic and stylish.
Will Next Killer App Be Mobile?
Mar 30, 2007 |
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What is the next killer application? This is one of those perennial questions whose answer often seems obvious in retrospect but was not visible when you peered into the crystal ball.
Handheld instrument assesses dental disease in minutes
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Who would have guessed that when the Star Trek medical diagnostic tool known as the tricorder makes its appearance in real life, the first user might be . . . your dentist.
Cells selectively absorb short nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 30, 2007 |
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DNA-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) shorter than about 200 nanometers readily enter into human lung cells and so may pose an increased risk to health, according to scientists at the National ...
Neuroscientists find different brain regions fuel attention
Mar 30, 2007 |
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If you spotted an anaconda poised to strike, the signal to pay attention would originate in a different part of your brain than if you gazed at an anaconda in the zoo, neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute ...
Analysis: At CTIA, Phones Are Fashion, Not Tech
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Cell phones exist at the junction between technology and fashion: for millions of people, they're as key to their wardrobes as a sharp suit, little dress or new handbag. At the CTIA trade show this year, geeks took a back ...
TJX Intruder Had Retailer's Encryption Key
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Not that the culprit necessarily needed it. Data was apparently taken during the card-approval process before it was encrypted. These are among the latest details in what is almost certainly the worst retail data breach ever. ...
