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	First 500 GHz Silicon-Germanium Transistor Demonstrated Source: GaTech Posted: 6/22/2006 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. Full story...

	NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Captures Saturnian Moon Ballet Source: NASA/JPL Posted: 6/22/2006 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. Full story...

	Scientists find the reason behind black holes' light shows. Source: UMichigan Posted: 6/22/2006 A team of astronomers led by the University of Michigan may know how black holes are lighting up the Universe. Full story...

	Scientists tackle long-standing questions about plutonium Source: LLNL Posted: 6/22/2006 Scientists have gone a long way to solving a question about the nature of plutonium that has remained a mystery since the Manhattan Project. Full story...

	Inexpensive Detector Sees the Invisible, In Color Source: NASA Posted: 6/13/2006 An inexpensive detector developed by a NASA-led team can now see invisible infrared light in a range of 'colors,' or wavelengths. Full story...

	Physicists Devise New Technique for Detecting Heavy Water Source: Caltech Posted: 6/13/2006 Scientists at Caltech have created a new method of detecting heavy water that is 30 times more sensitive than any other existing method. Full story...

	XMM-Newton spots the greatest of great balls of fire Source: ESA Posted: 6/13/2006 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. Full story...

	Smashing young stars leave dwarfs in their wake Source: McMaster U. Posted: 6/13/2006 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. Full story...

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