Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are measuring precisely the disintegration of “frangible” bullets when they strike a surface to better understand how the ammunition might affect body ...
Engineering
Jun 8, 2006
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated an elegantly simple technique for synthesizing a wide variety of complex surfaces that vary in a controlled fashion across a test strip. ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 8, 2006
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VSNL Singapore announced Thursday the launch of a private-line Ethernet service that will connect major cities on three continents.
Telecom
Jun 8, 2006
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Cisco Systems Thursday named a new chairman of the board and authorized a stock repurchase that could be worth up to $5 billion.
Business
Jun 8, 2006
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The increase in coastal area population is directly correlated to an increase in contaminated waters and shellfish bed closings. Over 85 percent of all beach closures and advisories in 2004, over 19,950 days, were a result ...
Environment
Jun 8, 2006
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Syracuse University Ph.D. student Adam Bjork is a man on a mission: to unlock the mysteries of cryptic female choice. He’s not studying psychology or trying to get a date—he’s a student of biology in SU’s College ...
Jun 8, 2006
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Bacteria like Salmonella have a complicated immune system that helps them recognize and isolate foreign DNA trying to invade their cell membrane, according to a University of Washington-led study in the June 8 issue of Science ...
Jun 8, 2006
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Missouri at Rolla have built an ultrasound analogue of the laser.
General Physics
Jun 8, 2006
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An unaccounted for source of space dust which spawns life in the universe has been identified by an international team of scientists. They report in Science Express that Type II supernovae – where a massive star comes to ...
Astronomy
Jun 8, 2006
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New York's Sirius Satellite Radio will build a new satellite together with Space Systems/Loral, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications.
Telecom
Jun 8, 2006
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