Archive: 09/30/2005
Planes may one day fly in "V" formations
Engineers at the University of California at Los Angeles, Boeing and NASA say that someday planes might fly in "V" formation like geese.
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Scientists believe open water in summer has become key to declining arctic ice
As researchers Wednesday announced the lowest amount of ice cover in more than a century in the Arctic, the fourth consecutive year of record and near-record lows, two polar scientists at the University of Washington's Applied ...
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Scientist uses form to explain function of key building blocks of life
UW-Madison biochemists have developed an approach that allows them to measure with unprecedented accuracy the strengths of hydrogen bonds in a protein. The scientists were then able to predict the function of different versions ...
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Polar bears hold key to understanding health risk of environmental pollutants
Polar bears and people, at the chilly top of the Arctic’s food chain, risk consuming a smorgasbord of industrial pollutants that have seeped into their habitat and pose potential health hazards.
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Before Your Flight: A Fingerprint Scan at the Check-in Desk
Lufthansa has teamed up with Siemens to successfully test a biometric process for check-in and boarding at Frankfurt Airport. The tests proved the feasibility of identifying airline passengers from their fingerprints. The ...
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Sony and SanDisk Develop "Memory Stick Micro"
SanDisk and Sony announced the development of the “Memory Stick Micro” format, an ultra-small IC recording media designed to meet the growing storage needs of highly compact, multifunctional mobile phones. Licensing for the ...
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Sun's direct role in global warming may be underestimated, Duke physicists report
At least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output rather than factors such as increased heat-absorbing carbon dioxide gas released by various human activities, ...
Sep 30, 2005 |
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Climate Change More Rapid than Ever
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology presented on Thursday, September 29, their first model calculations for the future of the climate. According to the calculations, in the next 100 years, the climate will ...
Sep 30, 2005 |
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Cassini's Doubleheader Flybys Score Home Run
Cassini performed back-to-back flybys of Saturn moons Tethys and Hyperion last weekend, coming closer than ever before to each of them. Tethys has a scarred, ancient surface, while Hyperion is a strange, spongy-looking body ...
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NASA Takes Giant Step Toward Finding Earth-Like Planets
Are we alone in the universe? Are there planets like Earth around other “suns” that might harbor life? Thanks to a recent technology breakthrough on a key NASA planet-finding project, the dream of answering those questions ...
Sep 30, 2005 |
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Innovation in Nanoporous Chemistry
Science researchers from the University of Versailles (France), in collaboration with the ID31 beam line at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), report their progress in the design and characterisation of microporous ...
Sep 30, 2005 |
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Wireless World: Standards of the future
The future of wireless network standards -- conventions that will gird the next generation of technologies for business mobility -- is being debated by industry leaders, and new mobile communications devices may be available ...
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Nano World: Nanowires help spot cancer
Arrays of silicon nanowires with biomolecular coatings can spot molecular traces of cancer far more accurately, quickly and specifically than technology currently available to doctors, experts told UPI's Nano World.
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Einstein‘s papers influenced recent research on the big bang and black holes
A hundred years after Einstein published his most famous papers, the interest in his work is still undiminished. This is proven by a detailed analysis of how often his papers are cited in scientific literature, based on search ...
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Samsung to bolster chip output
Samsung Electronics said Friday it will invest $33 billion to develop a semiconductor plant by 2012.
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