E-waste becoming a health hazard
"E-trash" is creating an increasing health hazard across the nation, with the U.S. Senate trying to find a national solution.
"E-trash" is creating an increasing health hazard across the nation, with the U.S. Senate trying to find a national solution.
Aug 1, 2005
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Commuters cruise down Interstate 95 from New York City to Washington, D.C., bumper to bumper, at a speed of 120 miles per hour -- about a two-hour trip at that speed. Do they worry about collisions? Not at all. They can even ...
Aug 1, 2005
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WiMax and 3G technologies will complement, not compete with, each other in China's broadband market, according to Analysys International, a Beijing research firm.
Aug 1, 2005
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About one hundred years ago, S. Arrhenius brought forward a hypothesis that the atmospheric temperature of at the surface of the Earth was increasing under the influence of the glasshouse effect created by carbonic acid gas. ...
Aug 1, 2005
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While "navigation" systems in automobiles are a fairly new (and still costly) innovation, monarch butterflies have managed for millennia to navigate their way for a distance of some 3000 miles (4800 kilometers) each fall ...
Aug 1, 2005
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Spanning fewer than a thousand atoms, the electronic devices on semiconductor chips have become so miniscule they defy most efforts to characterize them. Now for the first time, engineers have demonstrated a way to image ...
Aug 1, 2005
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Sony Ericsson announces first global search for the world’s favourite music Do you love driving to the Rolling Stones or dancing to Madonna? Sony Ericsson is compiling ‘The Walkman phones 100’ - the first soundtrack ...
Aug 1, 2005
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The Nuclear Physics Group at the University of Surrey has been awarded a large scale grant worth almost half a million pounds (£483k) from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to synthesise and ...
Aug 1, 2005
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NIST Detects “Ticks” in Aluminum, with Help from Intermediary Atom Physicists at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used the natural oscillations of two different types ...
Aug 1, 2005
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National Semiconductor Corporation introduced the world’s smallest backlight light emitting diode (LED) driver that controls lighting applications in handheld devices, including cellular phones, digital still cameras, gaming ...
Aug 1, 2005
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