15/12/2004

Toshiba Brings Perpendicular Data Recording to HDD

According to JCN Network, Toshiba has announced a new breakthrough technology in hard disk drives (HDD) based on perpendicular recording, setting new benchmarks for data density, boosting the capacity of a single 1.8-inch ...

Assistive technologies for the blind

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new assistive technologies for the blind based on advances in computer vision that have emerged from research in robotics. A "virtual white cane" is ...

New microscope boost for UK nanotechnology research

A powerful new microscope, currently available only in three universities in Europe and the USA, will position Britain as a leading centre for nanomaterials, researchers announce today. The ultra-high performance analytical ...

Research demystifies quantum properties of exotic materials

International team shows collapse of Fermi volume in quantum critical matters Modern materials science has been a boon for electronics, providing average consumers with palm-sized computers that would have filled a room ...

Scientists 'PAD' their way to new metal-oxide film technology

University of California scientists working with a researcher from Washington State University at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Superconductivity Technology Center have developed a novel method for creating high performance, ...

NASA picks two IU devices to go to Mars

Two of the eight instruments selected to go on a Mars rover have Indiana University Bloomington geologists behind them, NASA announced yesterday. One of the devices will provide scientists with a closer look at Mars -- ...

Mars Rovers Spot Water-Clue Mineral, Frost, Clouds

Scientists have identified a water-signature mineral called goethite in bedrock that the NASA's Mars rover Spirit examined in the "Columbia Hills," one of the mission's surest indicators yet for a wet history on Spirit's ...

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