Briefs: BT launching 8Mbps broadband in Britain
BT is launching a new wholesale broadband service in Great Britain with a potential for sizzling speeds up to 8 megabits per second.
Mar 2, 2006
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Buzz builds for Microsoft Origami debut
The tech community continued speculating about Microsoft's mysterious Origami Project Thursday following announcement of a release date.
Mar 2, 2006
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India telecom budget disappoints industry
India's telecom industry is reportedly disappointed with the government's budget proposals for the sector.
Mar 2, 2006
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Nano World: New microphone microscope tip
New microscopic probes resembling mergers between needles and microphones could help speedily measure chemical and mechanical properties of a material or a drug with just one poke, experts told UPI's Nano World.
Mar 2, 2006
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New twist in classical mechanics finds way around 225-year-old paradox
In the rarefied sphere of classical mechanics, more can sometimes be elegantly less. In a paper that will be published March 1 in the proceedings of the Royal Society, two engineers at the Viterbi School of Engineering offer ...
Mar 2, 2006
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Crater Lichtenberg and young lunar basalts tracked by SMART-1
This animation, made from images taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, illustrates a special pointing mode, the so-called 'target-tracking' mode.
Mar 2, 2006
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Weighting cancer drugs to make them hit tumors harder
Scientists have devised a blueprint for boosting anti-cancer drugs' effectiveness and lowering their toxicity by attaching the equivalent of a lead sinker onto the drugs. This extra weight makes the drugs penetrate and accumulate ...
Mar 2, 2006
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Winning postcards from Venus chosen
Venus, as the goddess of beauty, has been celebrated in art and myth for millennia. Now, The Planetary Society and ESA celebrate the imagined rugged beauty of the planet's natural landscape with the winning entries in the ...
Mar 2, 2006
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Miniature synchrotron produces first light
In 2004 Lyncean Technologies announced the construction of the Compact Light Source (CLS), a miniature synchrotron to produce high-intensity, tunable, near-monochromatic X-ray beams. The Compact Light Source was specifically ...
Mar 2, 2006
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Souping Up Superfluidity Calculations
“In quantum mechanics, very seldom do you solve exactly problems involving more than one particle,” explains Massimo Boninsegni, Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta. Boninsegni and his colleagues, Nikolay ...
