Chemistry jobs outlook still dim, but salaries rise
Nov 07, 2005 |
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The job market for chemical scientists remains depressed for the fifth straight year — though better than for the nation as a whole — but employed chemists have enjoyed solid salary increases, according to the Nov. 7 Employment ...
Opportunity Dusts Off And Gets Back To Work
Nov 07, 2005 |
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Having weathered a recent dust storm, Opportunity is back to business. Energy levels are on the rise as the rover prepares for its next investigative campaign.
Venus Express set for launch on Wednesday
Nov 07, 2005 |
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A dense curtain of mysteries surrounding Venus, the hot and hazy sister planet to Earth, awaits to be opened after the launch of Venus Express. On Wednesday, 9 November 2005, the sky over the Baikonur Cosmodrome, ...
British government to require biofuels
Nov 07, 2005 |
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The British government will reportedly soon require oil companies to blend a fixed proportion of biofuels into the gasoline and diesel fuel they produce.
Wilma wreaked havoc with weaker winds
Nov 07, 2005 |
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Hurricane Wilma may have generally wreaked havoc across Florida last month, but meteorologists say it did it with mostly Category 1 wind speeds.
NETGEAR ships 240 Mpbs home wireless
Nov 07, 2005 |
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Silicon Valley's NETGEAR reported Monday it was ready to ship a wireless network solution capable of speeds previously available only through wired systems.
A researcher racing for results
Nov 07, 2005 |
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Yuntian Zhu of DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory's may have started late in the race to develop ultra-long carbon nanotubes, but he is now on the fast track to success.
Study: How an internal organelle doubles
Nov 07, 2005 |
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Yale University scientists have found a mechanism that regulates the way an internal organelle, the Golgi apparatus, duplicates as cells prepare to divide.
Tsunami damage limited on Indonesia reefs
Nov 07, 2005 |
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Scientists say tsunami damage on reefs close to the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake epicenter pales in comparison with human-caused damage.
Bedtime stories may not teach reading
Nov 07, 2005 |
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A new study shows that reading to toddlers is probably not teaching them how to read on their own.
Yahoo! buys shares in Europe, Korea units
Nov 07, 2005 |
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Yahoo! said Monday it plans to buy the remaining shares in its European and Korean subsidiaries.
ISS crew takes a space walk
Nov 07, 2005 |
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U.S. astronaut William McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev took part in a Monday spacewalk at the International Space Station.
Aussies to monitor Net for zombies
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The Australian government has launched a trial program to ferret out "zombie" computers that have been hijacked to send out spam or viruses.
Mobile music expected to be a hit
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The United States has been slow to embrace music on mobile devices compared with 15 other countries, a leading market information provider found, but mobile-music businesses say this trend will soon change.
Briefs: CSL, Nokia offer video-sharing service
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Nokia and Hong Kong's CSL launched Monday Asia's first video-sharing service.
