Researchers to develop nano-size battery to be implanted in eye to power artificial retina
Jan 12, 2006 |
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Several researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, led by principal investigator Susan Rempe, are part of a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary team developing a nano-size battery that one day could ...
New evidence for a Dark Matter Galaxy
Jan 12, 2006 |
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New evidence that VIRGOHI 21, a mysterious cloud of hydrogen in the Virgo Cluster 50 million light-years from the Earth, is a Dark Galaxy, emitting no star light, was presented today at the American Astronomical ...
Three most powerful hurricanes of 2005 were filled with mysterious lightning
Jan 12, 2006 |
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The boom of thunder and crackle of lightning generally mean one thing: a storm is coming. Curiously, though, the biggest storms of all, hurricanes, are notoriously lacking in lightning. Hurricanes blow, they ...
Macworld new products and reactions
Jan 12, 2006 |
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The Macworld Expo show floor buzzed with its usual annual energy Wednesday as hundreds of vendors and thousands of attendees converged to discuss new products, Apple's recently introduced hardware and upcoming technologies. ...
Teaching ants: First demonstration of 'teaching' in non-human animals
Jan 12, 2006 |
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Certain species of ant use a technique known as ‘tandem running’ to lead another ant from the nest to a food source. Signals between the two ants control both the speed and course of the run. It is believed ...
Astronomers discover fastest-spinning pulsar
Jan 12, 2006 |
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A team of astronomers led by McGill University graduate student Jason Hessels has discovered the fastest-spinning neutron star, or pulsar, ever found. The 20-mile-diameter superdense pulsar, which at 716 revolutions ...
Computer problems driving people to drink
Jan 12, 2006 |
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A British survey says stress over work and computer-related problems is driving people to cigarettes and alcohol.
Micro-engines
Jan 12, 2006 |
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A programme for research on millimetre scale internal combustion engines is being jointly developed by Cambridge Combustion Research Centre and the Centre for Micro-Engineering and Nanotechnology at the University ...
Sonofusion Bubbles Up
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Jan 12, 2006 |
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Sonofusion works, according the latest volley in the argument over the feasibility of acoustically driven nuclear fusion.
Digital killed the video store
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The livelihood of video stores and online rentals might be numbered, now that the video-download movement is underway. The dawn of convenient video downloads of movie and television shows follows in the steps of audio music ...
