France's Albert Fert and German Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for a discovery that has shrunk the size of hard drives found in computers, iPods and other digital devices. (Oct. 9)
2007年的諾貝爾物理學獎是由法國物理學家費爾特(Albert Fert)及德國物理學家葛林柏格(Peter Gruenberg)獲得。他們發現的這種巨磁電阻效應(giant magnetoresistance, GMR)的應用,為硬碟讀取資料帶來革命性的改變,此項發明更被視為是奈米科技首度在生活上的重大應用。
Newly-released images show Princess Diana in the last hours of her life in 1997, including a photograph taken just before her death in a Paris tunnel. A British inquest is probing her death. (Sept. 3)
英國倫敦高等法院2日開庭審理英國已故王妃戴安娜及男友多迪的車禍死因案,儘管戴安娜王妃已經去世十年,但關於她的死因仍有眾多疑點尚待深入調查。英國陪審團在本次開庭審理中 首次公佈了戴安娜王妃在巴黎車禍前被拍到的最後生前畫面。