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Red Rain Could Prove That Aliens Have Landed?

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on February 20th, 2008

It was revealed in Guardian Unlimited, in 2006 about a finding of biological material in red rain that was happened in Kerala, India. Until now, this findings still become a mystery, there is still no specific proof that the red rain was a real alien’s DNA.
On 25 July, 2001, blood-red rain fell over the […]

New Inexpensive and Quickdrying Polymer In Semiconductor Manufacturing and Computer Chip Packaging

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on February 8th, 2008

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Polyset Company have developed a new inexpensive, quick-drying polymer that could lead to dramatic cost savings and efficiency gains in semiconductor manufacturing and computer chip packaging.

Worked with new materials called polyset epoxy siloxane (PES), the researchers were managed to create a new generation of lower-cost, on-chip nanoimprinting […]

3D Metamaterials For The Optical Wavelength Range

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on January 19th, 2008

Last month, the researchers from Harald Giessen at the University of Stuttgart succeded in manufacturing a stacked split-ring metamaterial for the optical wavelength range. This layer-by-layer stacking procedure is capable of producing well aligned three-dimensional metamaterial structures.
Before, researchers from Duke University stunned the world when they announced a cloaking device for the microwave range. […]

World’s Largest Silicon Tracking Detector Successfully Installed

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on January 4th, 2008

On December 25, at CERN1, installation of the world’s largest silicon tracking detector was successfully completed.
ScienceDaily reported, with a total surface area of 205 square meters, about the same as a singles tennis court, the CMS Silicon Strip Tracking Detector is by far the largest semiconductor silicon detector ever constructed. Its silicon sensors are […]

New Advanced Process To Manufacture Silicon Chips

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on December 25th, 2007

Researchers from Clemson University have developed a new process and equipment that will lead to a significant reduction in heat generated by silicon chips or microprocessors while speeding up the rate at which information is sent.
Rajendra Singh, D. Houser Banks Professor and director for the Center for Silicon Nanoelectronics said that, hopefully, the next […]

The Smallest Radio Ever “Nanotube Radio”

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on November 9th, 2007

A team of researchers with the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the first fully-functional radio from a single carbon nanotube, which makes it by several orders of magnitude the smallest radio ever made.

They called it nanotube radio. This nanotube works […]

Carbon Nanotubes Will Connect Moon to Earth

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on October 25th, 2007

Carbon nanotube research is a very active area with many hundreds of papers appearing in technical journals each year. In 1991 the first carbon nanotubes were made[Iijima, 1991]. These structures have promise of being the strongest material yet discovered. This strength combined with the low density of the material makes it critically important when considering […]

Microsoft Mind Reading Software

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on October 22nd, 2007

Microsoft is working on brain reading software—that can interface directly with the human brain—and it might one day be implementing for the purpose of diagnostics, or for control of home electronics via specialized peripheral computer accessories.
The patent application describes a method of classifying EEG data in a way that separates the wheat from […]

Viliv P2 PMP, The Complete Navigation System

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on September 13th, 2007

The complete navigation device Viliv P2 PMP has been launched. This is one of Yukyung’s product, China’s navigation device maker. Viliv P2 PMP comes as a complete Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Not only GPS, but this device is also provide a 11 centimeters TV.
We can choose the capacity we want : 30 or 60 GB. […]

The Ionic Wind Engines to Keep Computers Cool

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on September 1st, 2007

American Scientist reported, the microchips inside future computers could be chilled by tiny “ionic wind engines” that use an electric current to generate a cooling breeze.
Microchips are normally cooled using a heat sink, which absorbs and dissipates heat, and a small fan. An ionic wind engine generates wind using an electric current passing through […]

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