IDG News Service-President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to keep science and technology funding strong following the success of NASA's Curiosity rover landing on Mars. Obama made the commitment in a phone call to the Curiosity team at ...
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Gul Amin, in his doctoral thesis at Link ping University, demonstrated the process of growing white LEDs directly on paper. White LEDs made from a conducting polymer and zinc oxide (ZnO) can be produced directly on paper. Patent is pending ...
Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
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New guide star laser debuts at SPIE astronomy event 26 Jun 2012 Apparatus could help observatory one day"find another Earth"–Toptica. Burning bright:ESO's portable guide star laser unit under test.A novel approach to laser guide ...
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RWTH Aachen University and Aixtron SE in Germany have developed a new technique to create aluminium oxide insulated gates for nitride semiconductor transistors[Herwig Hahn et al,Semicond.Sci.Technol.,vol27,p062001,2012].The method consists ...
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