How can individual components be assembled into larger functional units? And how can robot arms, for example, be made to "grab" specific nano-objects-and to release them at the right moment? The field of biotechnology presents ...
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The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini Huygens mission to Saturn, which has already delivered stunning images and data of the ringed planet following insertion into the Saturnian system on 1st July this year, is poised to enter a crucial ...
Dec 5, 2004
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Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it had set an industry record with the shipment of one billion mobile displays. Mobile Display Systems (MDS), a business unit within Philips Semiconductors, customizes display ...
Dec 5, 2004
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With 25 percent of the Fortune Global 100 now using AMD Opteron processor-based systems, AMD announced broad enterprise support for the AMD Opteron processor, the world’s first 32-bit and 64-bit processor compatible with ...
Dec 5, 2004
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If ET ever phones home, chances are Earthlings wouldn't recognize the call as anything other than random noise or a star. New research shows that highly efficient electromagnetic transmissions from our neighbors in space ...
Dec 5, 2004
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Scientists studied the winds and rains in the eastern Indian Ocean for hints at developing El Ninos. They used that information to create an "Index" or gauge that accurately predicted the El Nino of 2002-2003. El Nino is ...
Dec 5, 2004
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Culture vultures enjoy exploring museum collections online. New 3D technology promises to make their experience richer still. With a mouse click, people can manipulate valuable objects as if they were in their own hands. ...
Dec 5, 2004
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University of Leeds and Cambridge research into climate change, published today (December 2nd) in Science Express, reveals that there is no regular pattern in the duration of warm phases (interglacials) on land over the last ...
Dec 5, 2004
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New results from experiments at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility will lead to improved models and perhaps a better understanding of what happens when stars explode. Dan Bardayan, Jeff Blackmon and Michael Smith ...
Dec 5, 2004
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have unveiled a fundamental change in the properties of matter. The theoretical finding, that bosons placed in two-dimensional harmonic traps will crystallize when the strength ...
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