NASA officials said Wednesday the launch of space shuttle Discovery, which was scrubbed Wednesday, will have to wait until at least Saturday.

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Free protons from acids associate with 1, 2 or 3 molecules of water and the structures can be identified by unique infrared laser spectrum signatures, according to a report in Science by Yale professor of chemistry Mark A ...

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Efforts aimed at saving one of the world's rarest birds of prey from extinction may be too late, a genetic analysis by researchers at the University of Michigan and The Peregrine Fund suggests. The last rem ...

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Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) offers a new range of safety light curtains for protecting personnel and machinery. The Type 2 light curtains from the Simatic Sensors product range perform monitoring functions ...

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Experimenters at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have made vital new observations that illuminate the nature of the weak force.

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SanDisk Corporation today announced that the microSD specification, which is based on SanDisk's TransFlash card, has been officially adopted by the SD Card Association (SDA). The new microSD card is fully compatible with ...

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ProMOS Technologies today announced that the first pilot lot by 90nm stack technology node at ProMOS 300mm Fab 3 has successfully wafered out with yield above 60%. ProMOS is the very first Taiwan DRAM company to achieve this ...

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A team of astronomers, led by the University of Durham, has discovered the aftermath of a spectacular explosion in a galaxy 11.5 billion light years away. Their observations, reported today (14th July 2005) ...

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A recent analysis showing the presence of a very bird-like pulmonary, or lung, system in predatory dinosaurs provides more evidence of an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. First proposed in the ...

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90 nm Process Technology Enables Smaller Die Size, Easier Implementation in Multi-Chip-Package and System-in-Package Designs Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today ...

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In the last few years, semiconductor circuit features have shrunk to sub-100 nanometer dimensions, while the size of the thin silicon wafers that these circuits are constructed on has grown from 200 millimeters ...

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an improved experimental X-ray detector that could pave the way to a new generation of wide-range, high-resolution trace chemical analysis ...

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Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Fujitsu Frontech Limited, and Fujitsu Limited today announced their joint development of the world's first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory ...

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Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX) today announced sample availability of its first reference design for ultra-low-cost handsets. Using Infineon’s new ULC reference platform, which is based on a single-chip GSM solution, ...

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ASML Holding NV (ASML) today announced a new lithography system with the highest numerical aperture (NA) – 1.2 – in the semiconductor industry. The ASML TWINSCAN XT:1700i system is a 193 nm immersion scanner capable of ...

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