News tagged with instrument
Improvement in chip divisions boosts profit at TI
(AP) -- Texas Instruments Inc.'s first-quarter profit leaped after the chip maker improved results in all its product lines, and the company offered an outlook better than what financial analysts were expecting.
Apr 26, 2010 |
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'Missing' heat may affect future climate change
Current observational tools cannot account for roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on Earth in recent years, according to a "Perspectives" article in this week's issue of Science. Scientists at the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Japan astronaut solves bubble puzzle
Of all the experiments Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki has carried out in space -- making sushi in a kimono and playing a harp -- blowing soap bubbles has arguably brought the biggest breakthrough.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Exploring Beneath Antarctic Ice
The NASA-funded ENDURANCE project has completed its second field season robotically exploring the waters of an ice-covered lake in Antarctica. Insight gained by the expedition will help scientists prepare ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Maintaining regular daily routines is associated with better sleep quality in older adults
A study in the April 1 issue of the journal Sleep found that the maintenance of daily routines was associated with a reduced rate of insomnia and improved quality of sleep in older adults living in a retirement community.
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Picturing the Proton
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two theoretical physicists in the College of Liberal Art and Sciences and their colleagues are eager for the results of an experiment scheduled next fall at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...
Mar 31, 2010 |
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New research counters risky image of popular financial investments
(PhysOrg.com) -- They have been called "financial weapons of mass destruction" and blamed for a number of catastrophic losses and bankruptcies. New research by a finance professor at Virginia Tech's Pamplin ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Recognition Technology to Transform Mobile Devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- UT Dallas researchers are working with Texas Instruments Inc. and GetFugu Inc. to enable next-generation human-device interaction (HDI) technologies that merge a physical, real-world environment ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 11, 2010 |
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New fibre testing device gives cotton an edge
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 'fibre maturity' testing device designed to improve the quality of fibre produced by Australian cotton growers and yarn quality in overseas spinning mills has been licensed to new-start ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Radar Map of Buried Martian Ice Adds to Climate Record
(PhysOrg.com) -- Extensive radar mapping of the middle-latitude region of northern Mars shows that thick masses of buried ice are quite common beneath protective coverings of rubble.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Better weather forecasts with a map showing atmospheric vapour
Weather forecasts, satellite navigation in cars and the inspection of dikes or natural gas fields: these applications using satellite data would all be even more accurate if we knew more about the distribution of water vapour ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 09, 2010 |
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TI 4Q profit, revenue soar on broad chip demand
(AP) -- Texas Instruments Inc. said Monday its fourth-quarter profit soared as factories that use its chips for a wide range of consumer gadgets and industrial products hummed straight through the typically ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
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How clean is your knife?
A new fast-acting disinfectant that is effective against bacteria, viruses, fungi and prions could help to reduce the spread of deadly infections in hospitals, according to research published in the February issue of Journal of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 20, 2010 |
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NASA listens for silent Mars lander
(AP) -- Will Phoenix rise from the dead? Don't bet on it.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 17, 2010 |
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New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's going to take infrared eyes to see farther back in time than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and that's what the James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI or Mid-Infrared Instrument detectors ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 29, 2009 |
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