Briefs: Sprint Nextel buys out Alamosa for $4.3B
Sprint Nextel said Monday it will buy out Alamosa Holdings for $4.3 billion.
Nov 21, 2005
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Briefs: Apple secures memory supply to 2010
Apple said Monday it has reached agreements with manufacturers to secure the supply of memory chips through to 2010.
Nov 21, 2005
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Mesmerized by Moondust
Each morning, Mian Abbas enters his laboratory and sits down to examine--a single mote of dust. Zen-like, he studies the same speck suspended inside a basketball-sized vacuum chamber for as long as 10 to 12 days.
Nov 21, 2005
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Materials Regain Properties Previously Thought to Disappear under Pressure
University of Arkansas physicists working with researchers in France have shown that a group of materials used in military sonar and medical ultrasound regain their unique properties at high pressures, overturning a belief ...
Nov 21, 2005
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MIT researchers visit Mars on Earth
At 75 degrees north latitude, Devon Island lies high above the Arctic Circle, a few hundred miles from the magnetic North Pole. A true polar desert, it is also the largest uninhabited island on Earth. But the reach of MIT ...
Nov 21, 2005
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Tweaks Course, Passes Halfway Point
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully fired six engines for about 20 seconds today to adjust its flight path in advance of its March 10, 2006, arrival at the red planet.
Nov 21, 2005
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A Microscope that Sees without Looking
A new type of microscope overcomes some of the limitations of optical imaging techniques by looking at how samples affect a tiny antenna, rather than looking at the sample itself.
Nov 21, 2005
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Bacteria which sense the Earth's magnetic field
Researchers uncover how a nanoscale 'compass' inside bacteria orients them to the Earth's magnetic field. It is not only migratory birds that orient themselves to the magnetic field of the Earth. Also bacteria -- supposedly ...
Nov 21, 2005
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Stopping The Next Big One
A system that could predict earthquakes has long been the Holy Grail of scientists trying to prevent the next catastrophe. Now a small Israeli company, backed by experts, is not only claiming to have discovered a method for ...
Nov 21, 2005
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SETI Sets Its Sights On M Dwarfs
Scientists have been searching actively for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations for nearly half a century. Their main approach has been to point radio telescopes toward target stars and to "listen" for electronic ...
Nov 21, 2005
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