New magnetic recording technology uses magneto-electric effect
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Magnetic recording is a multi-billion dollar industry and growing, as consumers store more and more data on PCs, laptops, and portable devices. Researchers continue to find new ways to improve the technology, ...
Sports Leagues Not Efficiently Structured, Scientists Say
Aug 30, 2007 |
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According to a pair of statistical physicists, sports leagues as they are typically set up – with each team playing an equal number of games and the one with the most wins declared league champion – too often allow a weak ...
IBM Brings Single-Atom Data Storage, Molecular Computers Closer to Reality
Aug 30, 2007 |
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IBM today announced two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules.
An unbeatable computer game?
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Researchers have come up with an idea to design a computer game that knows a player’s move about two seconds before the move is made. Using measurements of players’ skin conductance, the computer’s sensors ...
One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's
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Aug 30, 2007 |
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Scientists at the University of Rochester and the J. Craig Venter Institute have discovered a copy of the genome of a bacterial parasite residing inside the genome of its host species.
Philips introduces the 3D WOWzone multi-screen wall
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Philips is introducing the 3D WOWzone, a large 132inch (335 cm) multi-screen 3D wall, designed to grab people's attention with stunning 3D multimedia presentations. By creating a 'spellbinding' 3D experience, ...
The next generation: nanomagnets could replace semiconductors
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Just as compact discs all but wiped out vinyl records, semiconductors could be on their way out, too. A University of Houston professor has developed a similar ‘disruptive technology,’ using magnetic cellular networks, that ...
Scientists find elusive waves in sun's corona
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Scientists for the first time have observed elusive oscillations in the Sun's corona, known as Alfvén waves, that transport energy outward from the surface of the Sun. The discovery is expected to give researchers ...
Images show threat the rovers face in giant Martian dust storm
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2007 |
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The mighty Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to persevere in brutal conditions, as revealed in images of the sun they are sending home. The images show how opaque the Martian atmosphere has been ...
Dispelling the myth of bipolar glaciation 41 million years ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Large continental ice sheets did not exist in both hemispheres around 41 million years ago during the warmer-than modern conditions of the time.
Nanofluids not so super-cool after all
Aug 30, 2007 |
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MIT engineers have shown that nanofluids, which once held promise as a super-coolant, do not have the theoretical cooling capabilities many scientists believed they had.
Television, Internet -- what's next?
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Watch 3-D television without stereo glasses, use screens with-out touching them, download video with no loss of quality – in future this will be the norm for media technology. At the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, ...
Weird 'Engine of The Reef' Revealed
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Aug 30, 2007 |
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A team of coral researchers has taken a major stride towards revealing the workings of the mysterious ‘engine’ that drives Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and corals the world over.
Yale scientists use nanotechnology to fight E. coli
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the American Chemical ...
Battle of the Sexes: Study Reveals Married Men Lag Behind in Household Chores
Aug 30, 2007 |
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A woman shouldn't be surprised if the man she's lived with suddenly stops taking out the trash or putting away the dirty dishes after they get married. The results of a recent international study conducted by researchers ...
