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Students create underwater remotely operated vehicle for use in scientific research

During the past two years, five Port Townsend High School students have invested more than 500 hours working intently with a local entrepreneur to develop, design and construct a highly specialized research vessel capable ...

Other Sciences /

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New low power semiconductor solution for portable audio devices with hard drive

Leveraging its expertise in high performance digital audio solutions, Royal Philips Electronics today announced a highly integrated, low-power solution that will make it easy for manufacturers to build hard disk drive (HDD) ...

Technology /

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Scientists coax gold particles to emit light strong enough to view single nanoparticles

Findings have implications for tracking disease, drugs at the molecular level Researchers in the laboratory of Boston College Chemistry Professor John T. Fourkas have demonstrated that gold particles comparable in size to ...

Nanotechnology /

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Clues to planet formation revealed

The most detailed measurements to date of the dusty disks around young stars confirm a new theory that the region where rocky planets such as Earth form is much farther away from the star than originally thought. These fir ...

Space & Earth /

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Three New Floating-Point Devices from TI

Continuing to drive down the price of developing high-quality audio products, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced three new floating-point digital signal processors (DSPs) based on the TMS320C67x DSP generation. ...

Technology /

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New AMD Geode Processor for Mobile Computing

AMD today announced availability of the AMD Geode LX 800 @ 0.9W processor, enabling consumers to experience full-featured, desktop-style computing on a new generation of x86 architecture-based embedded and ...

Electronics /

created May 23, 2005 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Astronomers, Amateur Skywatchers Find New Planet 15,000 Light Years Away

An international collaboration featuring Ohio State University astronomers has detected a planet in a solar system that, at roughly 15,000 light years from Earth, is one of the most distant ever discovered. In a time whe ...

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Too Much Knowledge Can Be Bad For Some Types Of Memory, Study Finds

Sometimes knowledge can be a bad thing, especially when it comes to exact remembering of certain things. A new study found adults did better remembering pictures of imaginary animals than they did remembering pictures of ...

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New technique may speed DNA analysis

Just as the printing press revolutionized the creation of reading matter, a "nano-printing" technique developed at MIT could enable the mass production of nano-devices currently built one at a time.

Nanotechnology /

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NASA's AcrimSat Solar Spacecraft Completes Five-Year Mission

A NASA satellite that measures the variability in the amount of the Sun's energy that reaches Earth's atmosphere and impacts our winds, land and oceans has successfully accomplished its five-year primary mission.

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Evident announces first commercially available non heavy-metal quantum dots

Indium Phosphide-based, Molecular Plated T2-MP EviTags in Deep Red Colors Offer Benefits for Life Science Research Evident Technologies today introduced the first commercially available non heavy-metal quantum dot product f ...

Nanotechnology /

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