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Boeing-built LightSquared Space-Based Network Ready to Begin Service

SBN is 1st Integrated Wireless Broadband and Satellite Network

Boeing today announced that it has completed the post-launch testing and on-orbit handover of the first LightSquared satellite and Space-Based Network (SBN). The satellite system has been accepted by LightSquared and is ready to begin service.

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What ultra-tiny nanocircuits can do

Harvard, MITRE researchers produce first programmable nanoprocessor

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False-color scanning electron microscopy image of a programmable nanowire nanoprocessor superimposed on a schematic nanoprocessor circuit architecture.

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Apple iPad 2: 10 Reasons It Should Launch Sooner Rather Than Later

The iPad 2 is now in production, reports say. But for Apple’s sake, the sooner it hits store shelves, the better.

Reports are swirling around that Apple has finally sent its iPad 2 to production. Assuming that’s true, it’s quite possible that the company will make its announcement of the iPad 2 in the near future, and then sell it to consumers around the world soon after that.

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Nanogenerators to Enable Battery-Free Handhelds

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Northwestern University researchers fabricated a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) to test their piezoelectric nanowires

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Now in 3D: Copy and Paste!

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The boy and other elements were copied and pasted from a different image using new stereoscopic editing technology

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NASA Hosting Events for Valentine's Night Comet Encounter

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Artist rendering of Stardust-NExT spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL

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Proposed Mission to Jupiter System Achieves Milestone

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This artist’s concept shows NASA's Jupiter Europa Orbiter which will carry a complement of 11 instruments to explore Europa and the Jupiter System. The spacecraft is part of the joint NASA-ESA Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM).

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Northern Mars Landscape Actively Changing

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Three images of the same location taken at different times on Mars show seasonal activity causing sand avalanches and ripple changes on a Martian dune. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

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It’s the ‘lab-on-a-chip’ model

Microfluidics Lab provides new core facility for undergraduate teaching

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A student in the new Microfluidics Lab peels back the polymer, showing engraved channels from an ink-transparency template.

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Voyager Celebrates 25 Years Since Uranus Visit

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A latitude-longitude grid superimposed on this Voyager 2 false color image shows that Uranus' atmosphere circulates in the same direction as the planet rotates.