06/06/2005

Who's Creative in Genetics & Nanotechnology?

Survey Seeks Top Scientists for a Study of Research Innovation Who's doing the most innovative and important research in the fields of human genetics and nanotechnology? A team of U.S. and European researchers will be asking ...

Magma Developing 65-nm Quartz DRC Runset for IBM Processes

Magma Design Automation Inc., a provider of semiconductor design software, today announced that IBM has been evaluating Quartz DRC Design Rule Files for its 90- and 65-nanometer foundry processes. Quartz DRC is a key component ...

World-first technology enables study of ancient bacteria

Sustainable energy source could solve Bermuda Triangle riddle Experts at Cardiff University, UK, have designed world-first technology to investigate sustainable energy sources from the ocean bed by isolating ancient high-pressure ...

The evolutionary triumph of flower power

Flowers have flourished - their beauty evolving over time - simply because we like them, says Terry McGuire, associate professor of genetics at Rutgers and co-author of a paper that examines for the first time the whys and ...

Exploding Star Left No Visible Core

In 1987, earthbound observers saw a star explode in the nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomers eagerly studied this supernova-the closest seen in the past 300 years-and have continued to examine ...

Permanent deep-sea seismic sensors

A submarine seismic sensor was recently set in place at 2400 m depth, off Toulon. The instrument was attached to a neutrino telescope developed by the international scientific programme Antares. For the first time in Europe, ...

Astronomers find key evidence supporting theory of quasars

The office that astronomer Lei Hao shares with her fellow research associates on the first floor of the Space Sciences Building at Cornell University is tidy and organized. But Hao has been thinking a lot lately about dust. Actually, ...

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