Controversy surrounds British water plant
Critics are reportedly increasing their opposition to the construction of Britain's first plant designed to turn salt water into drinking water.
Environment
May 23, 2006
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Nike introduces iPod Sport Kit
Nike unveiled Tuesday the Air Zoom Moire -- footwear that connects to an iPod Nano through the wireless Nike(plus)iPod Sport Kit.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 23, 2006
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Samsung Launches World's First PCs with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk
Samsung Electronics will release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD). This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing application ...
Hardware
May 23, 2006
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Intel's Core Microarchitecture Sets New Records in Performance and Energy Efficiency
Intel today disclosed record breaking results on 20 key dual-processor (DP) server and workstation benchmarks. The first processor due to launch based on the new Intel Core microarchitecture — the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor ...
Hardware
May 23, 2006
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Surviving the Tough Life
University of Arkansas researchers have shown that methane-producing microorganisms can survive for up to 25 days without water, which might make such creatures even more likely candidates for the type of life that could ...
May 23, 2006
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Hard-nosed Advice to Lunar Prospectors
Long before David Beaty became associate Chief Scientist for NASA's Mars Program, he was a prospector. Beaty spent 10 years surveying remote parts of Earth for precious metals and another 12 years hunting for oil. And this ...
Space Exploration
May 23, 2006
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Strained silicon carries light for cheaper commercial electronics
By physically compressing a silicon waveguide – and thus allowing variations in the way light travels through the material – scientists have discovered a key to creating a silicon electro-optic modulator. This method ...
ESA announces new Earth Explorer missions
The European Space Agency announced Tuesday the shortlist of new Earth Explorer mission proposals within its Living Planet Program.
Space Exploration
May 23, 2006
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A Quantum CPU: the Pentium Q?
A new design scheme for a quantum processor core makes potential quantum computers more technically feasible, more efficient, and in many cases faster by keeping all of the quantum bits active all the time, rather than switching ...
General Physics
May 23, 2006
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In Brief: Australia said 'close' to Telstra plan
The Australian government is apparently getting closer to deciding on a plan for the sale of its majority stake in national telco Telstra.
Telecom
May 23, 2006
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