First 500 GHz Silicon-Germanium Transistor Demonstrated
Source: GaTech Posted: 6/22/06 A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz.
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Captures Saturnian Moon Ballet
Source: NASA/JPL Posted: 6/22/06 The cold, icy orbs of the Saturn system come to life in a slew of new movie clips from the Cassini spacecraft showing the ringed planet's moons in motion.
Smashing young stars leave dwarfs in their wake
Source: McMaster U. Posted: 6/13/06 Astronomers have discovered that the large disks of gas and dust around young stars will fragment if two young stars pass close to each other and form smaller brown dwarfs stars with disks of their own.
XMM-Newton spots the greatest of great balls of fire
Source: ESA Posted: 6/13/06 Thanks to data from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun.
Inexpensive Detector Sees the Invisible, In Color
Source: NASA Posted: 6/13/06 An inexpensive detector developed by a NASA-led team can now see invisible infrared light in a range of 'colors,' or wavelengths.
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