North Korea's baby steps for the Internet
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Talks between North Korea and some of its most powerful neighbors continue to be bumpy at best as the hermit nation keeps playing its trump card of threatening to become a nuclear power. Whether Kim Jong-Il's regime actually ...
Stopping light in quantum leap
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Aug 30, 2005 |
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ANU researchers have used a groundbreaking approach to set a world record for stopping light - a crucial step in the development of the next generation of computers.
Scientists ponder Illinois bison mystery
Aug 30, 2005 |
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The discovery of 2,000-year-old bison bones in Illinois has contradicted theories that bison were more recent arrivals in the state.
CELSIUS V830 workstation with AMD64 technology
Aug 30, 2005 |
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AMD today announced that Fujitsu Siemens Computers, a leading European IT provider, is offering a new series of workstations based on the AMD Opteron processor. The CELSIUS V830 supports the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor ...
Screening for security: millimeter-wave scanner identifies non-metallic weapons
Aug 30, 2005 |
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If you're looking for concealed weapons these days, you need more than x-ray machines and metal detectors. You want something that also will identify non-metallic weapons, or any other threatening object that may be concealed ...
Hurricane Katrina: Scientists Fly Into Eye of the Storm
Aug 30, 2005 |
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Researchers Study Hurricane Rainbands and Eyewall Real-time radar data and high-tech communications were the keystones to success this past weekend as the Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX) p ...
Argonne researchers create new diamond-nanotube composite material
Aug 30, 2005 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have combined the world's hardest known material – diamond – with the world's strongest structural form – carbon nanotubes. This new process for “growing” diamond and ca ...
A New Leap in Drug delivery
Aug 30, 2005 |
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by Dr. Bikram Lamba For most of the industry’s existence, pharmaceuticals have primarily consisted of simple, fast-acting chemical compounds that are dispensed orally or as injectables. During the past three decades formulatio ...
Toronto Research Uncovers Genetic Instructions To Build Life
Aug 30, 2005 |
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Life at its most basic level - millions of chemical building blocks holding hereditary information - is controlled by genetic instructions, or genes, responsible for healthy development and protection against disease. By ...
Snowball Antarctica -early Drake passage opening led to global change
Aug 30, 2005 |
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Antarctica and global cooling New results shed light on how Antarctica became the icy, barren continent that we know today. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have discovered that 30-50 million years ago, South Amer ...
Gold bowties may shed light on molecules and other nano-sized objects
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One of the great challenges in the field of nanotechnology is optical imaging--specifically, how to design a microscope that produces high-resolution images of the nano-sized objects that researchers are trying to study. ...
Study uses quantum chemical calculations
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Rising oil prices reportedly are increasing the momentum to develop more efficient combustion systems. But scientists say essential to that goal is a need to achieve greater understanding of the complex chemical reactions inv ...
Mars Orbiter Makes Successful Course Correction
Aug 30, 2005 |
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) successfully tested its main engines by making a successful trajectory adjustment for reaching the red planet on March 10, 2006.
New chemistry method uses 'test tubes' far smaller than the width of a hair
Aug 30, 2005 |
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Using a water droplet 1 trillion times smaller than a liter of club soda as a sort of nanoscale test tube, a University of Washington scientist is conducting chemical analysis and experimentation at unprecedented ...
Infineon to supply Xbox parts
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Infineon said Tuesday it will supply Microsoft's Xbox videogames with three components.
