A NASA-funded study has found the human body's ability to fight off disease may be decreased by spaceflight. The effect may even linger after an astronaut's return to Earth following long flights. In addition to the conditions ...
Sep 30, 2004
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe congratulated the SpaceShipOne team on the second successful flight of a human on a private spacecraft. Administrator O'Keefe was in the Mojave Desert, Calif., today to watch SpaceShipOne pilot ...
Sep 30, 2004
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Biometric security implies different things to different people. For some, applications that identify individuals based on their physical and behavioural characteristics will lead to a safer and more secure world. For others, ...
Sep 30, 2004
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The electrons of a perfect metallic surface move like free waves in a plane. Nevertheless, if atomic barriers are inserted, this may restrict their movement in one dimension, forming stationary waves such as those on the ...
Sep 30, 2004
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When people exercise, their muscles consume energy and generate heat as a byproduct. When enough heat accumulates internally, it can limit exercise performance. Two Stanford biologists have developed a method for cooling ...
Sep 30, 2004
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Intellon Corporation, the world leader in powerline communications, today announced the introduction of its next generation powerline networking chipset. The INT5500CS, an 85Mbps powerline networking chipset, is fully compliant ...
Sep 30, 2004
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Using nanotechnologies to replace and/or extend the life of advanced CMOS manufacturing technologies is the goal of a new IMEC program announced today. IMEC's industrial affiliation program (IIAP) will seek alternatives ...
Sep 30, 2004
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A team of UK scientists has used, for the first time, an extremely short-pulse laser to accelerate high-energy electrons over an incredibly short distance. Current accelerators can be hundreds of metres long, this is just ...
Sep 30, 2004
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All of those messages typically confined to the desktop are about to be unleashed with Ogo™ - a radically new, hip, and affordable mobile messaging device for the masses, particularly teens and young adults. Introduced ...
Sep 30, 2004
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IBM Corp. on Wednesday said it has developed the world's fastest computer – a 16,000-processor version of its BlueGene/L supercomputer. BlueGene was able to achieve a sustained performance of 36.01 TFLOPS, overtaking the ...
Sep 30, 2004
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