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September 2, 2004
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Twisted Physics: How Black Holes Spout Off - Space.com First, the puzzle. At the centers of some galaxies are supermassive black holes that can hold more material than a billion Suns, theorists say. From some of these galaxies, focused beams of hot gas shoot into space at more than 99 percent the speed of light. The plasma emits X-rays, radio waves and other radiation, all of which has been widely observed. Researchers assume the material is accelerated by some mechanism related to the black hole. |
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$1bn to build unmanned fighter - BBC Northrop Grumman will build at least three full-scale flight prototypes for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) over five years. The contract win will allow Northrop to continue work on its X-47B combat drone. It is hoped that many unmanned fighters would be networked and controlled from land or from an aircraft carrier. Boeing is already developing another drone called the X-45C under the same operational assessment phase of the Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) demonstration programme, led by Darpa. |
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Particle collider edges forward - BBC A key decision on the International Linear Collider, one of the grand scientific projects of the 21st Century, has been taken in China. Physicists told a Beijing conference that the multi-billion-dollar project should use superconducting technology to create its particle collisions. These would be high-energy impacts inside a 30km-long laboratory. At the moment, the so-called Standard Model of particles and their interactions provides only a partial picture of the nature of the normal matter we see around us. Researchers know, however, the cosmos is dominated by other material which is invisible to current detection technologies. |
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Alzheimer's Disease: :
9/2/2004: Video: Early Alzheimer's Disease -
ABC
Biosciences:
9/2/2004: Researchers To Examine How Engineered Crop Genes Stray - SpaceDaily
9/2/2004: What Your Pooch Really Wants -
ABC
9/2/2004: Scientists: Salmon Hatchery Policy Flawed -
ABC
Climate, Environment:
9/2/2004: Falloff In Freezes- NCAR Study Projects Decrease In Frost Days - SpaceDaily
9/2/2004: The Power Of
One: Unicellular Organisms Contribute More Nitrogen To Ocean Than Reported Earlier; May Affect Global Atmosphere - SpaceDaily
9/2/2004: 'Friendly' Killer Whale Damaging Boats -
ABC
9/2/2004: Calif. Revives Marine Sanctuary Proposal -
ABC
9/2/2004: Major Tokyo Quake Expected Within 50 Years -
ABC
9/2/2004: Nonnative Goats Bunking at Yellowstone -
ABC
9/2/2004: North Korea's environment crisis -
BBC
Computers:
Devices
9/2/2004: Review: A Take-Along Digital Photo Printer -
ABC
Communications
Technology
9/2/2004: Intel rolls out trimode version of Centrino - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: TEL invests in nano-imprint litho startup MII - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Immersion lithography on track for '07 insertion - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Swedish 'paper' computer maker attracts investors - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Peregrine migrates to 0.25-micron CMOS-on-sapphire - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: AMD confirms 90-nm shipments, juggles processors - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Intel reportedly delays launch of liquid crystal on silicon - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Immersion effort looks to new crystals, liquids - Silicon
Strategies
PC's
9/2/2004: Four startups gunning for TI's microdisplay business - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Review: Sharp's 3-D Monitor -
ABC
9/2/2004: Commentary: How to Fix Tech Support -
ABC
Internet
9/2/2004: Hot Habit -
ABC
9/2/2004: Satisfying Sites -
ABC
Miscellaneous
9/2/2004: EU probes Microsoft deal on anti-piracy - Seattle
Times
9/2/2004: Next-gen memory market to reach $66 billion - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Grading the Upgrade -
ABC
9/2/2004: Commentary: Death to Microsoft Word Program -
ABC
9/2/2004: Commentary: Opting Into Identity Theft -
ABC
Energy:
9/2/2004: 'Flower Power' Cars Could Be In Your Future - SpaceDaily
Health:
Cardiovascular
Cancer
9/2/2004: Ovarian Cancer Sheds Tumor Suppression With Loss Of Estrogen Receptor - SpaceDaily
Infectious
9/2/2004: Depo Provera Appears To Increase Risk For Chlamydial And Gonococcal Infections - SpaceDaily
9/2/2004: Tainted Flu Vaccine May Cause Delay -
ABC
9/2/2004: India's Anti-Polio Campaign Resisted -
ABC
9/2/2004: WHO- Monitoring Pigs Key in Bird Flu Fight -
ABC
Non-Infectious
9/2/2004: Breathing Easy -
ABC
9/2/2004: Video: Asthma in Kids Under 5 -
ABC
9/2/2004: Asthma Resource Center -
ABC
Miscellaneous
9/2/2004: UC Davis Medical Center Tests Robot That Brings Your Doctor To You After Surgery - SpaceDaily
9/2/2004: Cafeteria 101 -
ABC
9/2/2004: Video: Helping Overweight Children -
ABC
9/2/2004: Conflicting Opinions -
ABC
9/2/2004: Treatment Q&A -
ABC
9/2/2004: Side Effects -
ABC
9/2/2004: Eateries Push for Obesity Suit Protection -
ABC
9/2/2004: Before the Fall -
ABC
9/2/2004: Healthy Woman
Quiz: Anxiety Disorders -
ABC
9/2/2004: Do Women Caretakers Risk
Poverty? -
ABC
9/2/2004: Elderly Blindness Drug Impresses FDA Panel -
ABC
9/2/2004: Food Panel Says Americans Need More Fiber -
ABC
9/2/2004: New Exercise DVD Designed for Babies -
ABC
9/2/2004: Singapore Aims to Lure 'Medical Tourists' -
ABC
History, Anthropology:
9/2/2004: Stolen Egyptian Artifact Returned Home -
ABC
9/2/2004: Scientists Study 3,000-Year-Old Bodies -
ABC
Miscellaneous:
9/2/2004: $1bn to build unmanned fighter
-
BBC
9/2/2004: Airline bosses urge Congress to investigate rising fuel costs - Seattle
Times
9/2/2004: U.S. ports' security funding is lacking - Seattle
Times
9/2/2004: China's consumer electronic industry to hit $94 billion - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Fourth of U.S. businesses unprepared for disasters - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Virtual Girl -
ABC
9/2/2004: Now Hear This! -
ABC
9/2/2004: North Korea likens Bush to Hitler -
BBC
9/2/2004: N Korea food prices 'rocket' -
BBC
Neurosciences:
Physics and Astronomy:
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Space:
9/2/2004: Is Mercury the Incredible Shrinking
Planet? MESSENGER Spacecraft May Find Out - Space.com
9/2/2004: Russia Names New Space Station Crew -
ABC
9/2/2004: Rocket Carrying Spy Satellite Launched -
ABC
9/2/2004: Spirit Etches Into Ebenezer - SpaceDaily
9/2/2004: Looking for a hole in one - SpaceDaily
9/2/2004: Scientists Discover First Of A New Class Of Extrasolar Planets - SpaceDaily
9/2/2004: Whipple's Flying Sandbank - SpaceDaily
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Technology:
9/2/2004: Gold Quantum
Dots: Fluorescing "Artificial Atoms" Could Have Applications In Biological Labeling, Nanoscale Optoelectronics - SpaceDaily
9/2/2004: Nanotech research to top $8.6 billion in 2004, says Lux - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: MEMS showing growth in consumer electronics - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Startup debuts desktop lithography tool for MEMS - Silicon
Strategies
9/2/2004: Shape-Shifting Chips -
ABC