Space propulsion breakthrough: new spacecraft ion engine tested
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The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of spacecraft ion engine that dramatically improves performance over present thrusters and marks a major ...
The forgotten methane source
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In the last few years, more and more research has focused on the biosphere; particularly, on how gases which influence the climate are exchanged between the biosphere and atmosphere. Researchers from the Max ...
Magnetic memory design breakthrough can lead to faster computers
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Imagine a computer that doesn't lose data even in a sudden power outage, or a coin-sized hard drive that could store 100 or more movies. Magnetic random-access memory, or MRAM, could make these possible, and ...
Optical wireless and broadband over power lines: High speed, secure Wi-Fi alternative
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Penn State engineers have shown that a white-LED system for lighting and high data-rate indoor wireless communications, coupled with broadband over either medium- or low-voltage power line grids (BPL), can offer transmission ...
Protecting your Computer: Part 3 – AntiVirus
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by Philip Dunn [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] Almost everybody is aware of the need for Antivirus software, so this article will concentrate on installation issues and virus removal. ...
Why the brain has 'gray matter'
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By borrowing mathematical tools from theoretical physics, scientists have recently developed a theory that explains why the brain tissue of humans and other vertebrates is segregated into the familiar "gray ...
Stardust Capsule Set to Return to Earth on Sunday
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This Sunday morning (15th January) at 10.12am GMT a capsule containing dust from Comet Wild 2 will return to Earth landing in the Utah Desert near Salt Lake City. The landing of the capsule marks the return ...
Climate Change Drives Widespread Amphibian Extinctions
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Results of a new study provide the first clear proof that global warming is causing outbreaks of an infectious disease that is wiping out entire frog populations and driving many species to extinction.
Geophysicists revisit 'The Big One,' create new quake model
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Almost a century after the 1906 earthquake, Stanford geophysicists have revisited San Francisco's "Big One" and now paint a new picture of a fault that was ready to go and that ruptured farther and faster than ...
Rewriting Glacial History In Pacific North America
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Although the story on glacier fluctuations in northwestern North America over the last 10,000 years has remained largely unchanged for decades, new evidence discovered by a University of Alberta researcher will rewrite that ...
WHO official says bird flu not mutating
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A World Health Organization official says the bird flu virus in Turkey does not appear to be mutating.
Engineers create mathematical method to design better robots, structures
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Mechanical and civil engineers have created a new mathematical method to design better structures, machines and versatile computer-controlled robots called "robot manipulators."
Spitzer Finds Possible Comet Dust Around Dead Star
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what may be comet dust sprinkled around the white dwarf star G29-38, which died approximately 500 million years ago.
Kuiper Belt Moons Are Starting to Seem Typical
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In the not-too-distant past, the planet Pluto was thought to be an odd bird in the outer reaches of the solar system because it has a moon, Charon, that was formed much like Earth's own moon was formed. But Pluto is getting ...
Morning grogginess worse than drinking
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A study says morning grogginess is more debilitating than sleep deprivation. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital say the effects of sleep inertia are as bad or worse ...
