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 Research puts new wrinkle in study of materials folding under pressureScientists at the University of Chicago and the University of Santiago in Chile have explained, for the first time, the physics that governs how thin materials at scales millions of times different in thickness ... |
MIT Creates New Material For Fuel Cells, Increases Power Output By 50 PercentMIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market, particularly ... |
 Electronics maker NEC's profit more than doubles(AP) -- NEC Corp.'s profit for the fiscal year through March more than doubled from the previous year as the Japanese electronics maker's mobile phone and computer-chip businesses swung to profit. |
Google starts to blur faces in Street View photos(AP) -- After privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however. |
 Public Invited to See Nanosoccer Robots in Action in PittsburghNanosoccer returns to the field later this month, when the National Institute of Standards and Technology hosts for the second time the world’s most Lilliputian sport. Three student teams will participate ... |
 Spin Control: New Technique Sorts Nanotubes by LengthResearchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have reported a new technique to sort batches of carbon nanotubes by length using high-speed centrifuges. Many potential applications ... |
Electronic voting system tested by Newcastle UniversityAn electronic vote capture and counting system, designed to overcome the problems which have dogged computerised voting systems throughout the world, notably the touch screen voting machines in the US and pilot schemes run ... |
Finding the right soliton for future networksEuropean researchers say their study of self-sustaining solitary light wave packets could result in a new generation of computers and optical telecommunications networks. Using light rather than electronic or magnetic devices ... |
Slowing light to speed data: USC Viterbi School wins $4.3M photonics IT contractTwo prize-winning USC specialists hope to break a bottleneck that has long limited communication systems from using light - photons - instead of electronics for data information processing. |
Hospital pay for performance incentives may backfire among safety-net hospitalsThe same government-backed incentive programs aimed at improving the care all Americans receive in hospitals may be widening the gap between poor, underserved patients and those who are insured or can afford to pay for their ... |
Gaining Independence Through Video GamesToday’s video games serve a multitude of functions ranging from entertainment to exercise and even education. Now, three graduates from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Class of 2008 have created a game with an even more ... |
 Student Innovation Could Improve Data Storage, Magnetic SensorsPaul Morrow has come a long way from his days as an elementary school student, pulling apart his mother’s cassette player. The talented young physicist has developed two innovations that could vastly improve ... |
 A Smarter Way to Grow GrapheneGraphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, has many potential uses in the electronics industry, but producing these ideal two-dimensional carbon sheets is very difficult and, as a result, their use has ... |
Smart fortwo micro car receives top crash scores(AP) -- The 2008 Smart fortwo micro car, the smallest car for sale in the U.S. market, has earned top scores in crash tests conducted by the insurance industry. |
Sale to HP will end EDS independenceMay 13, 2008 | pda version
(AP) -- Eight months into his tenure as CEO of Electronic Data Systems Corp., Ronald Rittenmeyer is overseeing the sale of the company, something he says he never planned. "It just came together," Rittenmeyer said Tuesday ... |
