Russian mathematician wins science award
A Russian mathematician's solution to a 100-year-old math puzzle was voted Breakthrough of the Year by Science, a leading scientific journal.
Mathematics
Dec 22, 2006
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Land lease pacts signed for Spaceport
New Mexico and two ranching operations signed long-term agreements that will allow the state's spaceport center and the ranches to co-exist.
Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2006
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Scientists demonstrate ultra-secure, long-distance quantum key distribution
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder have demonstrated unconditionally secure quantum key distribution (QKD) over a record-setting 107 kilometers of ...
General Physics
Dec 22, 2006
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Slower light could mean faster computers
IBM today announced its researchers have built a device capable of delaying the flow of light on a silicon chip, a requirement to one day allow computers to use optical communications to achieve better performance.
General Physics
Dec 22, 2006
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Samsung Develops 1/4 inch 3-megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Ultra Slim Camera Phones
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced the world's first 3-megapixel (M-pixel) CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a 1/4-inch lens aperture that is well suited for ultra slim camera ...
Hardware
Dec 22, 2006
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NIST to Preserve 1507 Map: America's 'Birth Certificate'
What does the Library of Congress (LOC) do when it wants to preserve a 500-year-old map, the only known copy of the first world map to call America “America?”
Other
Dec 22, 2006
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Adenine ‘Tails’ Make Tailored Anchors for DNA
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have demonstrated a deceptively simple technique for chemically bonding single strands of DNA ...
Dec 22, 2006
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Winning by a neck -- Giraffes avoid competing with shorter browsers
The giraffe's elongated neck has long been used in textbooks as an illustration of evolution by natural selection, but this common example has received very little experimental attention.
Dec 22, 2006
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Repair Costs of Seismic Test House Could Have Been Prohibitive
While the group of 200-plus faculty, students and media spectators who gathered at the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) at the University at Buffalo on Nov. 14 to watch the world's largest ...
Engineering
Dec 22, 2006
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New Antarctic Drilling Record to Yield Major Climate Data
The Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program drilled to a new record depth of 1,000 meters below the seafloor from the site on the Ross Ice Shelf near Scott Base in Antarctica on Dec. 16, making ANDRILL the most successful ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2006
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