Archive: 08/30/2005
New chemistry method uses 'test tubes' far smaller than the width of a hair
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 ...
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Study Examines Public Attitudes On Nanotechnology
Scientists have a rare opportunity to define public discourse over nanotechnology, if they provide citizens with easily digestible information about the emerging technology, a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor ...
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Samsung Adds Gigabyte Densities to MultiMediaCard Line-up
Samsung Electronics today announced that it is sampling Gigabyte MultiMediaCards (MMCs) with customers: 1GB and 2GB MMC plus cards, and the industry's first 1GB MMC mobile card. The higher densities and faster ...
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Hurricane Katrina: Scientists Fly Into Eye of the Storm
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 ...
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Survey: cell cameras boost digital photos
A new survey shows that, contrary to public belief, cell-phone cameras have spurred consumer interest in digital photography and cameras.
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'Operando' methods for understanding catalysis in hydrogen storage
As researchers at Pacifi c Northwest National Laboratory investigated the hydrogen storage capabilities of amine borane compounds, they knew that a rhodium catalyst readily releases hydrogen from the compound at room temperature. ...
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A New Leap in Drug delivery
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 ...
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Stopping light in quantum leap
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.
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CELSIUS V830 workstation with AMD64 technology
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 ...
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Study: Published research often is false
A recent study suggests false findings are often evident in published modern research.
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Screening for security: millimeter-wave scanner identifies non-metallic weapons
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 ...
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Supersizing the supercomputers: What's next?
Supercomputers excel at highly calculation-intensive tasks, such as molecular modeling and large-scale simulations, and have enabled significant scientific breakthroughs. Yet supercomputers themselves are subject to technological adv ...
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Getting down to basics - new technology will make it possible
The goal is to produce large-scale, first-principle simulations of ion hydration and phosphoryl transfer signaling reactions--two fundamental processes that occur, respectively, in the environment and in the human body, but ...
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Argonne researchers create new diamond-nanotube composite material
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 ...
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Gold bowties may shed light on molecules and other nano-sized objects
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. ...
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