Researchers have developed a new technique that could provide detailed information about the growth of carbon nanotubes and other nanometer-scale structures as they are being produced. The technique offers a way for researchers ...
Nanophysics
Jun 5, 2006
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Samsung Electronics, the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, will introduce a 3.5" LCD with embedded touch screen, and the first-ever 7" LCD driven by a single chip, ...
Hardware
Jun 5, 2006
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U.S. scientists say beavers, known for their beneficial environmental effects near their dams, are also critical in maintaining downstream ecosystems.
Environment
Jun 5, 2006
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Scientists at the University of Chicago have bolstered the case for a popular scenario of the big bang theory that neatly explains the arrangement of galaxies throughout the universe. Their supercomputer simulation shows ...
General Physics
Jun 5, 2006
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Spiral galaxies are the glitter of the universe. These systems of stars, dust, gas and plasma are held together by gravity but seem to pinwheel across the darkness of space. They have fascinated nighthawks for hundreds of ...
Astronomy
Jun 5, 2006
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Ben Liblit offers a bold prediction regarding all of the complicated software programs churning away in your computer: They have bugs. All of them. Guaranteed.
Software
Jun 5, 2006
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Boeing and FedEx are testing the effectiveness of higher-powered RFID tags as a means of monitoring the condition of an MD-10 air freighter.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jun 5, 2006
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Two of the five most important papers published in the 43-year history of the journal Applied Physics Letters were written by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Nick Holonyak Jr., a John Bardeen ...
General Physics
Jun 5, 2006
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Over the past five years or so, scientists have finally converged on a model of the universe that explains (or at least permits) all of its characteristics. The new cosmological model has one very surprising feature, however, ...
U.S. scientists say the little-known, but controversial, Preble's meadow jumping mouse should continue to receive federal threatened species protection.
Jun 5, 2006
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