This year marks the 100th anniversary of a revolution in our notions of space and time. Before 1905, when Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, most people believed that space and time were as Sir ...
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Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it has produced, supplied and - in cooperation with its industry partners - tested first engineering samples of an RFID chip compliant with EPCglobal's Ultra High Frequency (UHF) ...
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Although tornadoes are usually thought of as springtime storms that develop in early evenings out of isolated weather cells, storm watchers now say that conception often fails to hold, especially in the larger Midwest. Although ...
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The portable device will speed up performing paternity tests, identifying bacterial infections and detecting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) A team of researchers at the Universitat Autтnoma de Barcelona has ...
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Achievement could benefit fields of superchemistry, quantum computing A research team that in 2003 created an exotic new form of matter has now shown for the first time how to arrange that matter into complex molecules. ...
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Technology enables wireless, cable-connection-free high-definition TV sets NEC Corporation today announced the successful development of a highly compact 60-GHz-band (*1) wireless transceiver that transmits uncompressed ...
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced that it has developed a robot - called "EMIEW"* - for supporting people's everyday lives. EMIEW has the physical capabilities, such as agile movement and obstacle avoidance, needed for real life, ...
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The World Bank has published a report entitled, "Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis," that presents a global view of disaster risks associated with some major natural hazards—drought, floods, cyclones, earthquakes, ...
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Pericom Semiconductor Corporation, a worldwide preferred supplier of high-performance integrated circuits and SaRonix frequency control products, today announced a revolutionary breakthrough in crystal clock oscillator technology ...
Apr 1, 2005
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If trust is a two-way street, then researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have mapped where in the brain that trust is formulated and how the decision to trust shifts with experience. In a report in this week's issue of ...
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