New personal computer design wins Microsoft competition
Jan 13, 2006 |
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Two Purdue University industrial designers won a grand prize at an international competition co-sponsored by Microsoft Corp. for a new personal computer design that may change the way people watch movies, listen ...
Researchers find new source of coherent light
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Jan 13, 2006 |
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With the exception of lasers and free-electron lasers, there hasn't been another fundamental way to produce coherent light for close to 50 years. However, a group of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National ...
Anti-online annoyance law may have no legs
Jan 13, 2006 |
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At first it seemed like an Internet hoax. "There is a new law against annoying someone on the Internet, but it can be repealed if you forward this to 25 people." If you ask prominent online community leaders, the real law ...
Apple fans greet new technologies
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Step into the Moscone Center on the third day of Macworld Expo and it'd be hard to argue that this computer platform controls only 5 percent of the overall computer market. Throngs of users, sometimes three to five deep, ...
Wireless World: Sensors detect icy bridges
Jan 13, 2006 |
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A suspension bridge is perilously close to collapse, but secret federal agents learn about the pending disaster on their Palm Pilots and dash to the site and are able to stop the catastrophe just in time. The real hero here, ...
Globe Talk: Alluring yet perilous growth
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Until not too long ago, having a domestic telecommunications company was seen as a matter of national security as well as pride, even in some of the most open economies in the world. But as public utilities have largely become ...
Huge 'Superbubble' of Gas Blowing Out of Milky Way
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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia have discovered a huge "superbubble" of hydrogen gas rising nearly 10,000 light-years above the ...
Anti-adhesive layers leave no hope for insects
Jan 13, 2006 |
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Plants are able, using organic substances, to achieve effects that we otherwise mostly know only from technical materials. One example of this is the carnivorous pitcher plant, as researchers from the Max Planck ...
Scientists get first detailed look at Dicer
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Scientists have gotten their first detailed look at the molecular structure of an enzyme that Nature has been using for eons to help silence unwanted genetic messages. A team of researchers with Lawrence Berkeley ...
Women still tanning despite dangers
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U.S. dermatologists say 30 million people aren't getting the message that tanning beds are dangerous to their health.
