Archive: 06/15/2006
In Brief: Nokia in HSDPA deal with Celcom
Nokia will provide Malaysia's Celcom with high-speed downlink packet access services.
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Organ donor club grows, has critics
A new U.S.-based organ donor club has potential recipients anteing up their own organs for membership while doctors say the plan is unethical.
Jun 15, 2006 |
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UNC founder's home found in South Carolina
Artifacts found at a South Carolina site indicate it was the home of the University of North Carolina's founder, William Davie.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Three new 'Trojan' asteroids found sharing Neptune's orbit
Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune--called "Trojan" asteroids--have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) and the Gemini ...
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Mobile data retrieval improved with new algorithm
Penn State researchers have developed a new algorithm which enables cell-phone users to fetch data from music to TV shows as quickly as feasible with minimal channel switches.
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Broadband Report: Dixie Chicks' new home
Being vocal against the Iraqi War and President Bush and subsequently having country music stations throughout the heartland ban their music, the Dixie Chicks are having a little trouble -- not with sales of their latest ...
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Net-neutrality debate reaching tempest
Internet users could soon feel the aftershock of a decision the Federal Communications Commission made last August. The FCC placed phone companies in a class with cable services, freeing them from decades-old nondiscrimination ...
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Nano World: Metal foams for catalysis
Metal foams made of grains and pores only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide are lighter than Styrofoam, enough to float on water. The extraordinarily high surface areas these unprecedented foams possess suggest they ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Correlating Space and Time
“The method we have proposed,” says Evgeny Shchukin, “is an extension of the well-known balanced homodyning scheme.” However, unlike the standard scheme used for measuring radiation fields, the scheme developed by Shchukin ...
Jun 15, 2006 |
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