Science news articles about 'racetrack'

  • Modern techniques mark ancient racetrack

    OLYMPIA, Greece, July 21 (UPI) -- The horse racetrack where Roman Emperor Nero competed for honors in Olympia, Greece, may have been been found by a German research team.
  • IBM to study 'racetrack memory' technology

    SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16 (UPI) -- IBM says it's entered into a development agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute to advance racetrack memory technology.
  • UC San Diego physicists reveal secrets of newest form of carbon

    ... gums, scientists use the ALS's radiation—generated by accelerating electrons around a circular racetrack at close to the speed of light—to look inside materials. "It took some difficult experimental ...
  • 'Smart' materials get smarter with ability to better control shape and size

    ... the house. Once inside, "they moved around the space like they were running around a racetrack," says Shear. When the researchers increased the pH of the cell culture, the chamber changed volume, ...
  • Story ideas for health reporters covering the summer Olympic Games

    ... else behind the mind-blowing speeds on the racetrack? Michael Joyner, M.D., an anesthesiologist at ... seeing is a small effect due to better racetracks, shoes and improved sports medicine. And, people ...
  • 'Racetrack' for fast electrons in semiconductor structures

    In order to realize the electrical units of voltage, resistance and current with highest accuracy quantum effects in nano-circuits are nowadays used. Important prerequisites are extremely pure ...
  • The Key to Smaller, More Powerful Gadgets

    ... of companies are investing in the budding technology, but that could change as new forms of universal memory emerge, most notably IBM's "racetrack" memory and Nantero, Inc.'s nano RAM (NRAM). [More]
  • The Key to Smaller, More Powerful Gadgets

    ... of companies are investing in the budding technology, but that could change as new forms of universal memory emerge, most notably IBM's "racetrack" memory and Nantero, Inc.'s nano RAM (NRAM). [More]
  • A supercharged metal-ion generator

    ... target and creating a ring-like ion-impact or sputter erosion zone, often labeled the "racetrack". Self-sputtering, as noted, occurs when target atoms that have themselves been ionized return to the ...
  • Horses first domesticated 5,000 years ago

    Medieval knights, the warriors of Saladin, Roy Rogers and fans lining racetracks around the world all owe a debt to the Botai culture, residents of Central Asia who domesticated horses more than 5,000 ...
  • F1 technology helps workers and troops

    LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One technology used by McLaren's Lewis Hamilton on the racetrack is also playing a role in protecting troops in Iraq and keeping factory workers on their feet.
  • Beating the back-up blues

    ... on your computer is likely to break is because it has moving parts which eventually wear out, but the racetrack method of storing information is much more reliable as all the parts are static," says ...
  • Beating The Back-up Blues: Research Advances 'Racetrack' Memory

    That sinking feeling when your hard disk starts screeching and you haven't backed up your holiday photos is a step closer to becoming a thing of the past thanks to research into a new kind of ...
  • Biodiversity’s winners and losers

    There are winners and losers on the racetrack of speciation — the process of species splitting into new species. See which lineages have proved to be a speciation boom or bust.

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