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'Digital dark age' may doom some data

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (119) | comments 11

What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer's hard drive?





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NEC Integrates NanoBridge in the Cu Interconnects of Si LSI

NEC Integrates NanoBridge in the Cu Interconnects of Si LSI

Technology / Semiconductors

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NEC Corporation, in collaboration with the National Institute of Materials Science, today announced the successful integration of NanoBridge, a solid electrolyte non-volatile crossbar switch, in Cu interconnects ...


Nearly 100 new species described by California Academy of Sciences in 2009

Nearly 100 new species described by California Academy of Sciences in 2009

Biology / Ecology

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In 2009, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 94 new relatives to our family tree. The new species include 65 arthropods, 14 plants, eight fishes, five sea slugs, one coral, and one fossil ...


Their infinite wisdom

Their infinite wisdom

Other Sciences / Mathematics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hotel guests come and go. But in the first decade of the 1900s, a pair of frequent Russian visitors to the Hotel Parisiana, near the Sorbonne on Paris' Left Bank, stood out vividly. The children ...


Whose Tattoo Is It Anyway?

Whose Tattoo Is It Anyway?

Other Sciences / Other

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(PhysOrg.com) -- An infra-red digital camera could be a crucial tool in the fight against crime when trying to identify suspects by their tattoos, according to new University of Derby research.


New Study Turns Up the Heat on Soot's Role in Himalayan Warming (w/ Video)

New Study Turns Up the Heat on Soot's Role in Himalayan Warming (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Soot from fire in an unventilated fireplace wafts into a home and settles on the surfaces of floors and furniture. But with a quick fix to the chimney flue and some dusting, it bears no impact ...


Master gene Math1 controls framework for perceiving external and internal body parts

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Waking and walking to the bathroom in the pitch black of night requires brain activity that is both conscious and unconscious and requires a single master gene known as Math1 or Atoh1, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers ...


Born in beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula

Born in beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever dedicated to ...


New planet discoveries suggest low-mass planets are common around nearby stars

New planet discoveries suggest low-mass planets are common around nearby stars (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 11 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of planet hunters has discovered as many as six low-mass planets around two nearby Sun-like stars, including two "super-Earths" with masses 5 and 7.5 times the mass of ...


Efforts to save endangered languages

Efforts to save endangered languages

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- There are an estimated 6,500 languages in the world, with around fifty percent of them endangered and likely to cease to exist by 2100, but efforts are now being made to save them from extinction.


Hollywood hopes an ensemble cast boosts Blu-ray (AP)

Hollywood hopes an ensemble cast boosts Blu-ray

Technology / Business

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Although prices for some Blu-ray players dropped below $100 this holiday season, customers are hesitating to jump into the next-generation video format. Even people who already own Blu-ray players ...



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