Physicists offer new approach to studying antimatter in the lab
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What happens when two atoms, each made up of an electron and its antimatter counterpart, called the positron, collide with each other? UC Riverside physicists are able to see for the first time in the laboratory that these ...
Motorola launches fully loaded i870
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Motorola Monday announced release of its i870, a mobile device that includes a myriad of communications capabilities.
Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto
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Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to probe the ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers discovered that Pluto may have not one, but three moons. If confirmed, the discovery of the two new moons cou ...
Nanotech pioneer, buckyball discoverer, Nobel laureate Richard Smalley dead at 62
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Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of the buckyball and one of the best-known and respected scientists in nanotechnology, died today in Houston after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.
Mini with maximum style: the new Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook P7120
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has added a new model to its ultra-portable Lifebook P Series. The new Lifebook P7120 sports many features that make it a must-have item for mobile executives: from a striking glossy ...
Managing Murphy's Law on Mars
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This is it: the moment of truth. The spacecraft door has just clanged shut behind you, locking you and your fellow astronauts into the small cabin that will be your home for the next half-year's journey through interplanetary ...
Nothing Like Oxygen For That Evolutionary Boost
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Paul Falkowski says that from an evolutionary point of view, the absence of dinosaurs has been a very good thing for large placental mammals – less competition and fewer nasty predators. But it is not the ...
Scientists develop new analytical method
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A multidisciplinary team at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science says it has developed a new analytical method that can trace the lineage of cells. The scientists say they hope their work will lead to answers for such que ...
Book Expands Biological Classifications to Account for 'Alien' Life
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What would you call an alien if you encountered it on the street tomorrow? What if that alien didn't come from another world but rather was created in a laboratory right here on Earth and functioned differently from other ...
Methane found in desert soils bolsters theories that life could exist on Mars
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Evidence of methane-producing organisms can be found in inhospitable soil environments much like those found on the surface of Mars, according to experiments undertaken by scientists and students from the Keck School of Medicine ...
Mechanism of 'blindsight' explored
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Rice University researchers report inducing temporary "blindsight" in healthy volunteers.
Region-specific climate modeling studied
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University of California-Santa Cruz scientists say human-caused climate change might pose an even greater than previously thought.
Trend rolls out 2006 PC-cillin edition
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An update of its popular PC-cillin software is among the security solutions for 2006 unveiled Monday by Trend Micro.
Freescale unveils world's first 3G single core modem for mobile phones
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Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled its revolutionary 3G single core modem processor, at the heart of the MXC300-30 platform, based on the Mobile eXtreme Convergence architecture. Freescale is the first to provide a single ...
New Method of Dating Oceanic Crust Is Most Accurate So Far
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A newly developed method that detects tiny bits of zircon in rock reliably predicts the age of ocean crust more than 99 percent of the time, making the technique the most accurate so far.
