Researchers discover new longer-living flower
Penn State researchers have discovered a new flower that lives longer than an ordinary one. Named Elegance Silver by the researchers, the plant could be the Superman of the flower world.
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Nanotechnology combined with superconductivity could pave the way for 'spintronics'
As the ever-increasing power of computer chips brings us closer and closer to the limits of silicon technology, many researchers are betting that the future will belong to "spintronics": a nanoscale technology in which information ...
May 5, 2005
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By creating molecular 'bridge,' scientists change function of a protein
By designing a molecular bridge, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have forged a successful pathway through a complex ocean of barriers: They’ve changed the function of a protein using a co-evolution ...
May 5, 2005
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Earth lightens up
After 30 years of dimming, the planet's surface is brightening, an international collaboration concludes this week in Science magazine Earth's surface has been getting brighter for more than a decade, a reversal from a dimming ...
May 5, 2005
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Cancer exploits the body's wound-healing process
Scientists have known for the last decade that a link exists between wound healing and cancer. For instance, in a 1994 experiment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, chickens infected with a cancer virus developed ...
May 5, 2005
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Sharpest ever global Earth map
The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth's land surface is being created with ESA's Envisat environmental satellite. The GLOBCOVER project aims at producing a global land cover map to a resolution three times sharper ...
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Hats Off to Space Day From NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA salutes Space Day, observed this year on May 5, with a new dramatic image of the Sombrero galaxy. Space Day, held the first Thursday each May, is designed to inspire the next generation of explorers. The galaxy, called ...
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Sprint And Intel To Explore WiMAX Broadband Technologies
Sprint and Intel Corporation today announced an agreement to engage in joint efforts to advance the development of IEEE standards-based 802.16e WiMAX mobile technology, which can provide high capacity wireless broadband coverage ...
May 5, 2005
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TI Introduces Digital Media Processor
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announces that it is working with Microsoft on future versions of the Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Center Software Kit, enabling manufacturers to develop Portable Media Centers with TI hardware. ...
May 5, 2005
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Researchers Use Acoustic 3-D Imaging System to Unveil Swimming Behavior of Microscopic Plankton in the Ocean
From the surface, the ocean appears to be vast and uniform. But beneath the surface, tiny animals called zooplankton are swept into clusters and patches by ocean currents. The very survival of many zooplankton predators-from ...
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