Archive: 11/08/2005
NTT to Launch 'iD' Credit Card Brand for Mobile Payments
NTT DoCoMo announced today its new iD™ credit card brand for card issuers, which will enable DoCoMo customers to make credit card payments with the "Osaifu-Keitai" mobile phone equipped with wallet functions. The brand will ...
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ISS crew 12 performed the first spacewalk
NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev performed the first spacewalk of their six-month stay on the international space station. They installed a new camera and discarded an inactive science probe.
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GANDALF conjures up faster, seamless Internet technique
As the white wizard of Middle Earth in Lord of the Rings, Gandalf had some astounding abilities. As his modern namesake, the GANDALF project is set to cast a spell over the Internet world by offering unprecedented data transfer ...
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How do massive stars form?
In an upcoming issue, the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics will publish the most complete picture of a “triggered” star-forming region. Induced (or “triggered”) star formation is one of the processes that are supposed to lea ...
Nov 08, 2005 |
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SpaceDev Introduces Low Cost Plug and Play Linux Microsatellite
SpaceDev announced a new high performance microsatellite product program named the SpaceDev Modular Microsat Bus. The SpaceDev MMB-100 microsat is a highly capable modular 100 kg (220 pound) microsatellite based on industry ...
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Flash Memory Boom
If you’re not familiar with flash memory, you should be. It’s poised to make a whole host of older technologies obsolete – all to your advantage. You probably own some and are not even aware of it. If you ...
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Physicist Proposes New Way to Rank Scientific Output
Publications in peer-reviewed journals are the yardstick by which academic scientists compare their work with their colleagues. But is the best measure of a scientist’s worth the total number of his or her published papers? ...
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Device may revolutionize trucking industry
Clarkson University has announced development of an experimental fuel-saving device that may help revolutionize the trucking industry.
Nov 08, 2005 |
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NASA names first black flight director
NASA has named Kwatsi Alibaruho the first African-American to lead its Mission Control Center in Houston as a flight director.
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Mathematicians predict Cy Young winners
Two Rhode Island mathematicians say they have calculated who will win the 2005 Major League Baseball Cy Young awards.
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Nanotech breakthrough aids quest for viable alternative energy sources
At a time when oil prices are reaching record highs and people are bracing for winter heating bills, researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have made significant strides ...
Nov 08, 2005 |
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Avoid the hookah and save your teeth
Researchers say smoking a hookah is becoming increasingly trendy item in Mediterranean restaurants, cafes and bars -- but it can damage your teeth.
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Study: Less ice on New England rivers
Federal scientists say there's increasing evidence the number of days of ice on northern New England rivers have declined significantly in recent decades.
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