Briefs: Brasil Telecom trials wireless convergance
Brasil Telecom has launched a trial of UTStarcom's fixed-mobile convergence solution in preparation for next-generation wireless services.
Feb 8, 2006
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EU energy policy encounters difficulties
The European Union's efforts to boost European energy security are reportedly conflicting with some EU member states' national security interests.
Feb 8, 2006
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Briefs: Telecom N.Z. chops rural broadband prices
Telecom New Zealand is cutting wireless broadband prices for rural customers in what is seen as a response to growing competition from satellite providers.
Feb 8, 2006
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NJIT chemists cook up new strain of carbon nanotubes
Kitchen chemistry is alive and well at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) as chemical researchers report cooking up a new and more water- soluble strain of carbon nanotubes. An article about this work, "Rapidly Functionalized, ...
Feb 8, 2006
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MIT Researchers Take Space Suit to Next Level
Researchers in the Man Vehicle Laboratory (MVL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun this month to push a revolutionary new space suit design from investigation to initial development, aiming for a possible ...
SLAC Physicists Develop Test For String Theory*
*Under Certain Conditions String theory solves many of the questions wracking the minds of physicists, but it has one major flaw — there are currently no known methods to test it. SLAC scientists have found a way to test ...
Feb 8, 2006
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Model explains how electron beams make nanotubes visible
Scanning electron microscopes are the workhorses of imaging structures on the scale of billionths of a meter. Typically, they work by shooting a beam of electrons at the specimen and then detecting newly generated electrons ...
Feb 8, 2006
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Declining Snowpack in Rockies Cools CO2, Slows Gas Release from Winter Forest Soils
A decrease in Rocky Mountain snowfall has slowed the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas from forest soils into the atmosphere during the dead of winter, according to results of a new study.
Feb 8, 2006
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Early human ancestors had a wobble in their walk
A new study of fossil foot bones across human history suggests that some of our very early ancestors had a rather peculiar way of walking.
Feb 8, 2006
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Spitzer Uncovers Hints of Mega Solar Systems
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has identified two huge "hypergiant" stars circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust. The findings surprised astronomers because stars as big as these were thought to be ...
Feb 8, 2006
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