Archive: 06/13/2006
Researcher discovers how to control semiconductor nanowires
Jorden van Dam, researcher at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft (Holland), has succeeded in largely controlling the transportation of electrons in semiconductor nanowires. Van Dam moreover discovered how to observe ...
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Compact tidal generator could reduce the cost of producing electricity from flowing water
What happens if you run an electric motor backwards? That is exactly what researchers Dr Steve Turnock and Dr Suleiman Abu-Sharkh from the University of Southampton asked themselves after they had successfully built an electric ...
Jun 13, 2006 |
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A multimedia archaeological tour on your mobile phone
A tour of a big outdoor cultural site can sometimes be a frustrating experience if objects are not easily located, identified or placed in historical context. The Agamemnon project is working on an interactive ...
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Fail-Safe Techniques Erase Magnetic Storage Media
What if you absolutely must delete all data from a computer drive -- beyond any hope of recovery? That was the challenge facing scientists at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Their solution: special ...
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Study: Men good at anger, women with joy
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows men are good at noticing angry faces, with women good at noticing surprised, sad or joyful expressions.
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Value user over technology, new book says
Brilliant technological innovation is good, but only as good as the market. New technologies fail financially when they fail to take into account how users will react to them.
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Nano World: Finger-sensitive sensor films
Devices comparable in sensitivity to human fingers, enabled by a novel film embedded with nanoparticles, could offer the first step toward giving robotics hands the delicacy of the human touch, experts told UPI's Nano World.
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Study: How the herpes virus hides in cells
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine scientists say they've determined why cold sores caused by a herpes virus keep reappearing.
Jun 13, 2006 |
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An evil storm is forecast
Wicked, Evil, Foul, Bad -- all words meaning essentially the same thing, yet we don't talk about "evil weather," "foul witches" or the "forces of bad."
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Robots duke it out in Germany for RoboCup
In 2050, soccer and robot fans may soon be rooting for their favorite teams in a Cup game of human world soccer champion teams vs. a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots -- that's at least the ultimate vision of the RoboCup ...
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Japan may regulate thalidomide
Doctors in Japan will be required to register patients who are using the drug thalidomide under proposed regulations, the Japan Times reported.
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Nanotechnology simulations show what experiments miss
Taking issue with the perception that computer models lack realism, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher told his audience that simulations of the nanoscale provide researchers more detailed results — ...
Jun 13, 2006 |
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