Rocket's re-entry lights up two states
A Russian rocket that broke up re-entering Earth's atmosphere over the United States had ferried a French telescope into orbit, U.S. military officials said.
Space Exploration
Jan 4, 2007
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Metamaterials found to work for visible light
Ames Laboratory researchers have found the first metamaterial known to work for visible light, announcing the discovery in the Jan. 5 issue of Science.
Condensed Matter
Jan 4, 2007
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SanDisk Launches 32-Gigabyte Solid State Drive Targeting Hard Disk Replacement In Notebook Computers
SanDisk Corporation today introduced a 32-gigabyte (GB), 1.8-inch solid state drive (SSD) as a drop-in replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive. Initially aimed at enterprise users as the first step toward ...
Hardware
Jan 4, 2007
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Saturn dominates the night sky in January
The highlight of January will be the planet Saturn, which will rise in the east around 8 p.m. local time at the start of the month and two hours earlier by month's end. The planet with the famous rings will be almost at its ...
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2007
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A bumpy shift from ice house to greenhouse
The transition from an ice age to an ice-free planet 300 million years ago was highly unstable, marked by dips and rises in carbon dioxide, extreme swings in climate and drastic effects on tropical vegetation, according to ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2007
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How fish species suffer as a result of warmer waters
Ongoing global climate change causes changes in the species composition of marine ecosystems, especially in shallow coastal oceans. This applies also to fish populations. Previous studies demonstrating a link between global ...
Jan 4, 2007
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Record speed for thin-film transistors could open door for flexible electronics
A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a method of making flexible, thin-film transistors (TFTs) that are not only inexpensive to produce, but also capable of high speeds — even microwave frequency, ...
General Physics
Jan 4, 2007
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Smart lighting within reach
It's not often that an engineer finds inspiration for their research at the ballet. But for University of Queensland graduate Aaron Tan, the theatre was the perfect place to start his search for smarter lighting design.
Engineering
Jan 4, 2007
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Samsung Develops First Truly Double-sided LCD
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on each side of a mobile LCD display. Samsung's new double-sided LCD can show two entirely different pictures ...
Hardware
Jan 4, 2007
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Lunar Geminids
Another meteor shower, another bunch of lunar impacts... "On Dec. 14, 2006, we observed at least five Geminid meteors hitting the Moon," reports Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. Each impact ...
Space Exploration
Jan 4, 2007
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