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New design developed for silicon nanowire transistors

In an advance for nanoscale electronics, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new design for silicon nanowire transistors that both simplifies processing ...

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Physicists observed new interaction in elementary particle physics

Physics researchers working at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Laboratory in Japan have observed a new type of interaction among the most fundamental of particles, the quark. The scientists reported ...

Physics /

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Universal Display Announces Fundamental Breakthrough in Blue Phosphorescent OLEDs

Universal Display Corporation announced a fundamental technical achievement in the development of its blue PHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology: a sky blue PHOLED with over 15,000 hours of operating lifetime. This is the ...

Technology /

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Vigorous Hurricane Season Expected To Strike United States

Forecasters predict a "very active" 2005 hurricane season, with 15 named tropical storms and eight hurricanes likely. Hurricane season continues until Nov. 20. Homeowners living in hurricane-prone regions of the country are ...

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Mountain-building process much faster - and cooler - than previously thought

New 'cold crust' model may help explain other Earth-shaping events Geologists at Queen's University have discovered that the time it takes for mountain ranges to form is millions of years shorter than previously thought. T ...

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Planet With Largest Solid Core Ever Discovered

NASA researchers recently discovered the largest solid core ever found in an extrasolar planet, and their discovery confirms a planet formation theory. "For theorists, the discovery of a planet with such a l ...

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Engineers Deliver Robot to Neutralize Remote Explosives

Engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate have rapidly prototyped, developed, and delivered low-cost expendable robots to disable and dispose of improvised explosive devices. ...

Technology /

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Arrtificial reef generates surfers' waves

Two New Zealand companies have developed an artificial rubber reef that can be used to create surfing-quality waves in a swimming pool.

Other Sciences /

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Non-migratory birds may have bigger brains

European scientists have determined birds with bigger brains tend to stay put in the winter and are more innovative in their feeding habits.

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Sunshine Mapping From Space Means Brighter Solar Energy Future

How sunny is it outside right now – not just locally but all across Europe and Africa? Answering this question is at the heart of many weather-related business activities: solar power and the wider energy sector, architecture ...

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Scientist: Rate of progress slowing

A U.S. scientist says that the rate of innovation peaked around the year 1900 and might actually grind to a halt comparable to the Dark Ages.

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Russian Space Center To Complete Third Orbital Module

The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) has allocated money to the Khrunichev Space Center to complete the construction of a multipurpose research module (MRM) for the International Space Station (ISS), the center's ...

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Japanese Space Observatory To Carry NASA X-RAY Instrument

A pioneering X-ray detector developed at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center will launch on board the new Astro-E2 space observatory. Astro-E2's primary instrument is the high-resolution X-ray Spectrometer (XRS), developed joi ...

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