Archive: 12/9/2004
Nanotubes glow, even within biological cells
Scientists use fluorescence to track ultrafine particles taken up by white blood cells In some of the first work documenting the uptake of carbon nanotubes by living cells, a team of chemists and life scientists from Rice Un ...
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Spitzer And Hubble Capture Evolving Planetary Systems
Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided astronomers an unprecedented look at dusty planetary debris around stars the size of our sun. Spitzer has ...
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Panasonic Introduces 3-Megapixel Camera Module for the Mobile Terminal Market
Industry's thinnest 8.63 mm module incorporates auto-focus and image-stabilizer Panasonic SC Device Solutions Co., Ltd. (PSCDS), a subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., today announced the d ...
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Space scientist proposes new model for Jupiter's core
After eleven months of politics, now it's time for some real "core values" - not those of the candidates but those of the great gas giant planet, Jupiter. Katharina Lodders, Ph.D., Washington University in ...
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From Dinosaurs to Birds: Researchers Derive Lessons about Human Evolution from Chicken Genome
Experts in bioinformatics at the University of California, San Diego have co-authored with other scientists the first large-scale comparison of mammal and bird genomes, published in the December 9 edition of ...
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Solar System Secrets: Nuclear-Powered Mission to Neptune Could Answer Questions About Planetary Formation
In 30 years, a nuclear-powered space exploration mission to Neptune and its moons may begin to reveal some of our solar system's most elusive secrets about the formation of its planets -- and recently discovered ...
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Researchers discover direct link between agricultural runoff and massive algal blooms in the sea
Scientists have found the first direct evidence linking large-scale coastal farming to massive blooms of marine algae that are potentially harmful to ocean life and fisheries. Researchers from Stanford University's School of ...
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New Lithium Ion Batteries With Industry's Highest Level of Energy Density
Sony Corporation announces the new line-up of lithium ion batteries, with industry's highest level of energy density, responding to the needs for high capacity and large current in secondary batteries for mob ...
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Samsung Ships World's First 512Mb GDDR3
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, has begun shipping the world's first 512-megabit (Mb) GDDR3 memory device which is the most advanced graphics double-data-rate synchronous DR ...
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LG Electronics Opens Mobile Phone R&D Center in Europe
LG Electronics announced on December 8 that it has established its European R&D center in Paris, France to expand its GSM and WCDMA mobile phone market. The European market is considered crucial to meet the company’s goal ...
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Electric energy security, savings goals of power electronics research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a four-year, $12.5 million funding renewal for the Virginia Tech-based Center for Power Electronics (CPES), a university/industry coalition working to help resolve the nation's ...
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Artist/scientist 'dream team' assembles with goal of capturing and displaying gigapixel-sized images
An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the "dream team" of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing ...
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AMD Drives Future Of Formula One Technology
AMD Opteron Processor-Powered Supercomputer helps propel F1 team's CFD, aerodynamics and simulations past competitors Using technology provided by AMD, Formula One team Sauber Petronas today launched its new supercomputer ...
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Physicists Discover Potential Way to Store Memory in Ferroelectric Nanodisks and Nanorods
University of Arkansas physicists have discovered a new phase in tiny nanodisks and nanorods that potentially may enable researchers to increase memory storage by more than one thousand fold. This finding also opens a new ...
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Research icebreaker ‘Polarstern’ drifting in Antarctic ice
Since November 27, an ice floe has served as home as well as working place for 55 scientists from 11 nations. The research icebreaker ‘Polarstern’ of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research ...
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