From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 08:22:50 PDT
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Student challenges basic ideas of
time
August 1, 2003
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A bold paper that been published in
the August issue of Foundations of
Physics Letters seems set to change
the way we think about the nature of
time and its relationship to motion
and classical and quantum mechanics.
The work also appears to provide
solutions to Zeno's paradoxes. In
the paper,...
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Nanofab Partnerships Lead To
Real-World Solutions
July 31, 2003
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Intel expects to perfect
100-nanometer chip features this
year, two years ahead of schedule.
At its current pace, that number
should drop to 22 nanometers by
2015. To get there, Intel and other
chip companies count on
collaboration with universities with
cutting-edge facilities such as the...
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Book Questions The Necessity Of
Some Technological Marvels
July 31, 2003
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Bill McKibben questions the
necessity of many technological
marvels and believes robotics,
genetic engineering and
nanotechnology present the risk of
humans losing their...
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Virtual reality conquers sense of
taste
July 31, 2003
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The "last frontier of virtual
reality," taste, has been crossed.
To record taste experience, a
thin-film force sensor is placed in
a subject's mouth to record chewing
forces, biological sensors made of
lipid and polymer membranes record
the major chemical constituents of
the food's taste, and a...
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Magic Touch for Electronic Music?
July 31, 2003
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The Audiopad is a colorful,
dynamic, luminescent interface
projected onto a table top (as in
the movie Minority Report) that
allows for improvised composition of
live electronic music. The table top
is equipped with radio sensors that
track the position and movement of
half a dozen plastic...
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E-school would teach medicine from
afar
July 30. 2003
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An "International Virtual Medical
School" based at the University of
Dundee in Scotland will allow
medical students to study medicine
remotely via computer. It will be
based around a "virtual practice,"
where students would be presented by
the computer with patients whom they
have to treat....
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