Brasil Telecom has launched a trial of UTStarcom's fixed-mobile convergence solution in preparation for next-generation wireless services.

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The European Union's efforts to boost European energy security are reportedly conflicting with some EU member states' national security interests.

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Telecom New Zealand is cutting wireless broadband prices for rural customers in what is seen as a response to growing competition from satellite providers.

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Kitchen chemistry is alive and well at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) as chemical researchers report cooking up a new and more water- soluble strain of carbon nanotubes. An article about this work, "Rapidly Functionalized, ...

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Feb 08, 2006 4.3 / 5 (7) 0

Researchers in the Man Vehicle Laboratory (MVL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun this month to push a revolutionary new space suit design from investigation to initial development, aiming ...

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Feb 08, 2006 4.8 / 5 (103) 0

*Under Certain Conditions String theory solves many of the questions wracking the minds of physicists, but it has one major flaw — there are currently no known methods to test it. SLAC scientists have found a way ...

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Feb 08, 2006 4.4 / 5 (79) 0

Scanning electron microscopes are the workhorses of imaging structures on the scale of billionths of a meter. Typically, they work by shooting a beam of electrons at the specimen and then detecting newly generated ...

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Feb 08, 2006 4.3 / 5 (19) 0

A decrease in Rocky Mountain snowfall has slowed the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas from forest soils into the atmosphere during the dead of winter, according to results of a new study.

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Feb 08, 2006 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

A new study of fossil foot bones across human history suggests that some of our very early ancestors had a rather peculiar way of walking.

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Feb 08, 2006 4.6 / 5 (21) 0

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has identified two huge "hypergiant" stars circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust. The findings surprised astronomers because stars as big as these were ...

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Clarence Olberding of Lincoln, Neb., believed he had caught a new type of trout -- one with two mouths.

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Feb 08, 2006 2.3 / 5 (3) 0

Scientists from Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland say they've identified a key component of the mechanism spermatozoa use to enter an egg.

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NASA's Centennial Challenges Program officials Wednesday released draft rules for six new prize competitions, including spacesuit and vehicle challenges.

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Feb 08, 2006 3.3 / 5 (3) 0

At a press conference in New York today, IBM introduced a blade computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE). The IBM branded Cell BE-based system is designed for businesses that need the dense ...

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Feb 08, 2006 3.5 / 5 (11) 0

Miracles happen over and over again. Even in the sport which the Germans love the most – soccer. But when the ball flies in a curve and hits the goal it has nothing to do with magic powers. Here it is rather a question ...

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Feb 08, 2006 3.3 / 5 (8) 0