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Comment Re:Orientation? (Score 5, Informative) 186

by transmorph on Friday April 18, 2008 @09:05AM (#23116124) Attached to: UK Scientists Make Transistor One Atom Long, 10 Atoms Wide

From the linked article:

"The smallest dots that worked as transistors contained as few as five carbon rings - around 10 atoms or 1nm wide."

Somehow that became 10 atoms wide and 1 atom long in the summary.

I know, I know - this sort of thing would never happen on Slashdot...

Venus' Stop/Start History Highlighted By Probe 69

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 06, 2008 @04:24AM from the you've-got-a-little-acidic-atmosphere-on-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Science Daily reports on scientific findings from the ESA's Venus Express probe. The device, which is even now orbiting Earth's sister planet, is feeding back data hinting at Venus' origins. Initially, the probe has found, the planet evolved far too quickly. As a result Venus' liquid oceans were boiled away. With those gone, the planet's development stalled and ceased. 'They may have started out looking very much the same,' said Professor Taylor, 'but increasingly we have evidence that Venus lost most of its water and Earth lost most of its atmospheric carbon dioxide ... The interesting thing is that the physics is the same in both cases. The great achievement of Venus Express is that it is putting the climatic behaviour of both planets into a common framework of understanding.'"

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