Hitachi Delivers New Power-Efficient Terabyte Hard Drive
Hitachi Global Storage has announced today the Deskstar 7K1000.B, the world’s most energy-efficient 7,200 RPM one terabyte (1TB) hard drive.
Hardware
Jul 9, 2008
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Artificial intelligence takes home the pot at the poker table
Last weekend, the best man at the table was a machine. Polaris, the University of Alberta poker playing computer program, took on professional players in Las Vegas and came out on top. Like last year's challenge, when the ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 9, 2008
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NASA, ESA complete comparative exploration architecture study
Over the last 6 months, representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have been engaged in detailed assessment of potential programs and technologies that ...
Space Exploration
Jul 9, 2008
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Coal-generated CO2 captured in Australia -- a first
In a first for Australia, carbon dioxide (CO2) has been captured from power station flue gases in a post-combustion-capture (PCC) pilot plant at Loy Yang Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
Engineering
Jul 9, 2008
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Moon water discovered: Dampens Moon-formation theory
Using new techniques, scientists have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water. The researchers found that, contrary to previous thought, ...
Space Exploration
Jul 9, 2008
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Researchers find new mode of gene regulation in mammals
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered a type of gene regulation never before observed in mammals--a "ribozyme" that controls the activity of an important family of genes in several different ...
Jul 9, 2008
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Early earthquake warning: New tools show promise
Using remarkably sensitive new instruments, seismologists have detected minute geological changes that preceded small earthquakes along California's famed San Andreas Fault by as much as 10 hours.
Earth Sciences
Jul 9, 2008
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Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts
Asteroids with moons, which scientists call binary asteroids, are common in the solar system. A longstanding question has been how the majority of such moons are formed. In this week's issue of the journal Nature, a trio ...
Space Exploration
Jul 9, 2008
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Room temperature superconductivity: One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature superconductivity, according to a paper published in today's edition of the scientific ...
Superconductivity
Jul 9, 2008
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Flatfish fossils fill in evolutionary missing link
Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even Charles Darwin.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 9, 2008
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