19/04/2006

Samsung makes first 2GB phone memory card

Samsung Wednesday unveiled a 2 gigabyte MultiMediaCard (MMCmicro) memory card that it called the "smallest, fastest and highest capacity memory card for mobile phones." It combines four 4Gbit NAND flash devices.

Chemical Storage Units

Oscillating chemical reactions occur far beyond thermodynamic equilibrium. The Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reactions are among the most thoroughly investigated of these. In the BZ reaction a dicarboxylic acid, for example, ...

Cassini Controllers Overcome Software Glitch

NASA mission controllers said Friday that Cassini remains in "an excellent state of health and is operating normally" – although they did encounter a serious software problem last week that required a bit of jury-rigging ...

Russian Satellite Failure Caused By Space Garbage

The cause of the March 29 failure of the Russian Ekspress AM11 communications satellite has been confirmed as a collision with space trash, a Russian official told the state Novosti new agency Monday.

Americans Love Competition - Is It Pushing Scientists Too Far

Serious scientific misconduct that calls the integrity of science into question is only uncovered and reported perhaps a dozen times a year in the United States. This suggests that there isn't much misbehaving taking place ...

Digital camera 'fingerprinting' developed

Child pornographers will soon have a harder time escaping prosecution thanks to a stunning new technology in development at Binghamton University, State University of New York, that can reliably link digital images to the ...

Twin Towers dust delays construction

New York's transit agency plans to postpone demolition of a building near the World Trade Center site because of possible contamination with toxic dust.

Michigan plans to cut mercury emissions

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has announced plans to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by 90 percent in the next decade.

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