A new study by geologists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of California, Berkeley, improves upon a widely used dating technique, opening the possibility of a vastly more accurate time scale for major ...
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NEC Corporation ("NEC") and NEC Electronics Corporation ("NEC Electronics") today announced the development of technology for the realization of sub 0.1um generation, low-power SOC devices, which require high-K gate dielectric ...
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Consumers benefit from a convenient, fast and secure mobile payment experience Royal Philips Electronics and ViVOtech today announced a major initiative to deploy Philips' Near Field Communication (NFC) technology-based ...
Sep 16, 2004
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Siemens researchers have succeeded in developing novel mini-sensors that can detect gases and smells. Mobile electronic devices will be used in future to measure the ozone level in the air and warn if it exceeds the limits, ...
Sep 16, 2004
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A cockroach-like robot named RHex is the starting point for a major project to understand animals' most distinguishing trait - how they move without falling over. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today a ...
Sep 16, 2004
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Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source on Chestnut Ridge. ...
Sep 16, 2004
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It started with tennis balls. As a former collegiate tennis player, Daniela Rus habitually rolls two tennis balls around in her hand as she paces her office. As a robotics researcher at Dartmouth College, she wondered why ...
Sep 16, 2004
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Groundbreaking progress in nanotechnology is giving rise to heightened interest among investors, manufacturers, and other market participants. With progress comes new issues and challenges for theoretical scientists and, ...
Sep 16, 2004
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IBM First PC Manufacturer to Equip Its Desktop PCs with New Security Technology From National Semiconductor National Semiconductor today introduced two SafeKeeper™ Trusted Input/Output (I/O) devices, new hardware products ...
Sep 16, 2004
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A novel Antarctic telescope with 16-m diameter mirrors would far outperform the Hubble Space Telescope, and could be built at a tiny fraction of its cost, says a scientist from the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney, ...
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