Science Letter articles from November 2003

Science Letter archives from November 2003

Gamma-ray space telescope discovers hidden black holes.
November 3, 2003... 2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Integral, the European Space Agency's powerful gamma-ray space telescope, has discovered what seems to be a new class of astronomical objects. These are binary systems, probably including a black...

Revised periodic table slanted toward astronomers.
November 3, 2003... 2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The periodic table isn't what it used to be, thanks to innovations by a planetary chemist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Katharina Lodders, PhD, Washington University research...

Researchers discover new source of electricity.
November 3, 2003... 2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A team of researchers in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta (U of A) has discovered a new way of generating electricity from flowing water. It may soon be possible to never have...

Self-assembled nanocells function as non-volatile memory.
November 3, 2003... 2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chemists at Rice University, Houston, Texas, have demonstrated that disordered assemblies of gold nanowires and conductive organic molecules can function as non-volatile memory, one of the key...

New diode could enable faster, more efficient electronics.
November 3, 2003... 2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Engineers have designed a new diode that transmits more electricity than any other device of its kind, and the inspiration for it came from technology that is 40 years old. Unlike other diodes in...

Plug-in hybrid vehicle can cut national fuel consumption in half.
November 3, 2003... 2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Recently, Toyota Motor Corp. opened the production site of its gasoline-electric hybrid cars to journalists for the first time. Many leading auto makers have questioned the benefit of developing these...

Scientists say Salt Lake is due for earthquake.
November 3, 2003... 2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- It could happen tomorrow, or it could happen a century from now. But scientists are accumulating more evidence that the Salt Lake City area of Utah will be hit by a powerful earthquake again, just as it...

New scheduling method raises efficiency of electronics recycling.
November 3, 2003... 2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An industrial engineer at Purdue University has created a method to increase the efficiency, profitability, and capacity of recycling operations for electronic products such as computers and television...