Archive: 09/30/2004
South Korean company's technology gift fuels dreams of chip-controlled devices
Applications include musical synthesizers and tiny biomedical devices The dream of using a computer chip to operate and control tiny devices that can fit in a pocket or even inside the body might be moving one step close ...
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NEC Electronics Introduces Single-Chip DVD Recorder Codec IC Family for Low-end Market
NEC Electronics Corporation today announced a new DVD recorder codec IC family that offers affordable and flexible single-chip solutions for developing low-cost DVD recorders. The new products build on NEC ...
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Carbon Nanotubes to Improve Fuel Cells
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc., Motorola, Inc. and Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells, Inc. a $3.6 million grant to develop "free standing" carbon nan ...
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Renesas Technology Standardizes on Cadence MaskCompose to Reduce Mask-Marking Cycle Times and Costs
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Renesas Technology Corp. has standardized on MaskCompose™ for automated reticle design synthesis in its 90 nanometer design flow. MaskCompose provides a highly efficient and ...
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Evidence shaky for Sun's major role in past climate changes
Computer models of Earth's climate have consistently linked long-term, high-magnitude variations in solar output to past climate changes. Now a closer look at earlier studies of the Sun casts doubt on evidence of such cycles of brightness, their inten ...
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Novel Technique for Imaging Distant Planets
A NASA institute has selected a new University of Colorado at Boulder proposal for further study that describes how existing technologies can be used to study planets around distant stars with the help of an orbiting "starsha ...
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Breakthrough Motion Detector 1,000 Times More Sensitive Than Any Known
Device allows naked eye to see motion of 10 nanometers A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known. "There was nothing in the [optics] literature to predict that this ...
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'Dead zone' area shrinking
A team of Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University scientists conducted a research cruise in late August to the "dead zone" - a region in the northern Gulf of Mexico that suffers from low oxygen and results in hu ...
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Fast, Robust, and a Blast from the Past, Mechanical Memory Switch Outstrips Chip Technology
Nanomechanical memory cell could catapult efforts to improve data storage There are no gears or levers involved, nor even, for those who remember such things, punch cards transported in oblong boxes. Yet research by a Bos ...
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SanDisk Introduces World's Fastest Flash Memory - SanDisk Extreme™ III
SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today introduced the world’s fastest flash memory cards – the SanDisk Extreme™ III line of CompactFlash, SD™ and Memory Stick PRO™ digital film cards. The CompactFlash and ...
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Study Suggests Spaceflight May Decrease Human Immunity
A NASA-funded study has found the human body's ability to fight off disease may be decreased by spaceflight. The effect may even linger after an astronaut's return to Earth following long flights. In addition to the conditi ...
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NASA Salutes SpaceShipOne Team
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe congratulated the SpaceShipOne team on the second successful flight of a human on a private spacecraft. Administrator O'Keefe was in the Mojave Desert, Calif., today to watch SpaceShip ...
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Towards a new, more acceptable face for biometric security
Biometric security implies different things to different people. For some, applications that identify individuals based on their physical and behavioural characteristics will lead to a safer and more secure world. For others, ...
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A mysterious change in the wave properties of electrons
The electrons of a perfect metallic surface move like free waves in a plane. Nevertheless, if atomic barriers are inserted, this may restrict their movement in one dimension, forming stationary waves such as those on the ...
Sep 30, 2004 |
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Stanford's Technology Cools Athletes, Soldiers Inside Out
When people exercise, their muscles consume energy and generate heat as a byproduct. When enough heat accumulates internally, it can limit exercise performance. Two Stanford biologists have developed a method for cooling ...
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