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Steel and coal from the Titanic have been transformed into a new line of luxury wristwatches that claim to capture the essence of the legendary oceanliner which sank in 1912.
Geneva watchmaker Romain Jerome SA billed its "Titanic-DNA"...
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Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, and its subsidiary, NEC TOKIN Corporation, have signed an agreement to establish a joint-venture company – Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) – to focus on lithium-ion battery business for...
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is just the latest name to be dropped as someone who's supposedly interested in buying a multimillion-dollar spaceflight. Microsoft itself says it "makes it a practice not to comment on rumors or speculations," but...
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A team of researchers led by professor Hideo Hono of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has developed a new type of alumina cement that conducts electricity like metal by altering the crystal structure at the nano level.
Ordinary alumina cement...
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DARPA have a plan to build some super-duper Star Wars binoculars that true to the original movie, would allow soldiers to see miles off into the distance, day or night, warning them of potential threats almost immediately. They've even dubbed the...
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:: 12 April, 2007
Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) is pleased to announce the launch of its innovative do-it-yourself data recovery software. File Recovery for Windows is an advanced, easy to use application which recovers all file types including Word, Excel,...
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:: 12 April, 2007
The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Clouds of dust sweep around the stars, swaddling them in a cushiony veil.
The view is quite...
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:: 12 April, 2007
NASA researchers have successfully demonstrated in the laboratory that a space telescope rigged with special masks and mirrors could snap a photo of an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. This accomplishment marks a dramatic step forward for...
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The world's largest OLED display was introduced by Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co. this week. Organic Light-Emitting Diode displays are now a whopping 20.8 diagonal inches in size.
This low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) OLED display...
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Fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas have been essential resources for convenient, comfortable lifestyles. However, these energy sources greatly influence the state of the environment and are a factor that caused global warming. Capable of...
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:: 12 April, 2007
iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT) today expands its family of popular home robots, introducing the iRobot Verro(TM) Pool Cleaning Robot, an easier way to a cleaner pool. Verro requires no installation and uses artificial intelligence to clean more...
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From determining where an individual’s ancestors can first be found to mapping migration patterns of humankind, IBM and the National Geographic Society expect that there will be many discoveries (both big and small) that will take place during...
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Green, yellow or even red-dominant plants may live on extra-solar planets, according to scientists whose two scientific papers appear in the March issue of the journal, Astrobiology. The scientists studied light absorbed and reflected by organisms...
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Chandra observations of the galaxy NGC 1365 have captured a remarkable eclipse of the supermassive black hole at its center. A dense cloud of gas passed in front of the black hole, which blocked high-energy X-rays from material close to the black...
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Earth’s companion is extraordinarily rich in rare and precious natural resources. For example, various estimates put the already mentioned helium-3 at anywhere between one ton and five hundred tons. And although the technology for its use on Earth...
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Patricia Burchat never imagined herself as a professor of physics, let alone one at Stanford. "Back then I didn't even know what physics was exactly," said Burchat, the university's Gabilan Professor. But today, as one of the founders of the BaBar...
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Scientists of the MiniBooNE experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermilab yesterday announced their first findings. The MiniBooNE results resolve questions raised by observations of the LSND3 experiment in the 1990s that appeared to contradict...
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The public persona of the Atom is mild-mannered physics professor Ray Palmer, who fashioned a lens that enabled him to shrink any object to any degree he wished. The lens's secret ingredient is a chunk of a white dwarf star, and a 1960s version of...
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On April 12-14, 344 of the top FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics teams will gather at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to determine the FIRST Champions for 2007.
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:: 10 April, 2007
China's terracotta army, a mysterious collection of 8,000 life-size figures of warriors and horses found "ready for battle" in a 2017-year-old tomb, was painted in many colors, most distinctively bright purple.
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