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Entries from March 2008

Scientists: Mars is ‘too salty’ for life

Mars was too salty to support life forms. To such conclusion came experts from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, informs BBC News. Experts found the assumption using the data received from Mars rover Opportunity.
Studying of mining rocks with signs of water in them in the past has shown, that atmosphere of the Mars was acid […]

Categories: Space

IBM has invented super-economic data transmission

Corporation IBM has developed the technology, which allows the network equipment, consuming electric energy as 100 watt bulb, to transmit the information with a speed up to eight Tbit per second, informed TG Daily.
The new technology is called green optical link. Instead of wires the prototype uses light. Researchers have been talking about replacement of […]

Categories: Inventions · Physics

Light fountain in New York

An electric fountain or fountain from light was opened on February, 27 in New York on Manhattan, informed organizers of this ceremony from Art Production Fund.
The sculpture from light 10×10 meters belongs to a duet of sculptors - Tim Noble and Sue Webster, who have used for its creation half-kilometer of neon tubes, creating a […]

Categories: General · Inventions

Scientists have magnetized gold and silver

Basque scientists in cooperation with the colleagues from Japan and Australia in the chemical way have given magnetic properties to atoms of gold, silver and copper, informs portal Basque Research referring to an article in magazine Nanoletters.
Gold, silver and copper do not have magnetic properties in the nature (as against iron, for example).
Researchers, nevertheless, […]

Categories: Inventions · Physics

Apple beginnings deliveries of “time capsule”

Corporation Apple has started deliveries the preordered devices called Time Capsule, which allows to carry out reserve copying of the data through a wireless network, writes The Register.
Time Capsule is intended first of all for work with the new system of reserve copying Time Machine which has been built-in in the operational system Mac […]

Categories: General · Internet