Beetle spawns new material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 15, 2006 |
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The Namib Desert, one of the driest regions in the world, gets less than half an inch of rain per year. But early in the morning, a light fog drifts over the desert, offering the plants and animals living in ...
Correlating Space and Time
Jun 15, 2006 |
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“The method we have proposed,” says Evgeny Shchukin, “is an extension of the well-known balanced homodyning scheme.” However, unlike the standard scheme used for measuring radiation fields, the scheme developed by Shchukin ...
Nano World: Metal foams for catalysis
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Metal foams made of grains and pores only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide are lighter than Styrofoam, enough to float on water. The extraordinarily high surface areas these unprecedented foams possess suggest they ...
Life has a future; Naturalist E.O. Wilson is optimistic
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Jun 15, 2006 |
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Despite all the destruction of forests, pollution, overpopulation, and overfishing, Edward O. Wilson is optimistic about the future of life on Earth. Science, prudent actions, and moral courage are showing ...
Three new 'Trojan' asteroids found sharing Neptune's orbit
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune--called "Trojan" asteroids--have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) and the Gemini ...
Study: Arctic Ocean level is decreasing
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Scientists say they've discovered the Arctic Ocean's sea level is falling by about 2 millimeters a year, despite a global trend of rising water levels.
Web sites get cool with Ajax or die
Jun 15, 2006 |
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By this time next year, Web sites not developed using the Ajax technique "will simply not be cool enough to use," an Internet analyst said Tuesday.
Hybrid butterfly created by scientists
Biology /
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Scottish scientists say a South American butterfly species was created from two different butterflies in an evolutionary process thought impossible.
Samsung Launches Industry's First Blu-ray Disc Player To The U.S. Market
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics America announced today that the industry's first Blu-ray disc player has been shipped to retailers in the U.S. market for availability on June 25th.
First picture of wild Borneo rhino taken
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Jun 15, 2006 |
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The World Wildlife Fund says the first-ever picture of a rhino in the wild on the island of Borneo has been taken using a motion-triggered camera trap.
Philips Introduces Portable Media Center
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 15, 2006 |
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The total entertainment experience is now in the palm of consumers' hands, thanks to Philips Electronics’ amazing Portable Media Center (PMC7230).
How California Water Supply Could Survive Warming, Growth
Jun 15, 2006 |
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In a new report, the UC Davis authors of the most sophisticated analysis of California's water management system say the system should be able to adapt to a warmer climate and a larger population, albeit at a significant ...
NSA looking at social-networking spaces
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Amidst the political firestorm generated by revealed wiretapping of domestic phone calls, the National Security Agency has recently been revealed to be funding research to ramp up data-mining efforts to encompass social-networking ...
Net-neutrality debate reaching tempest
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Internet users could soon feel the aftershock of a decision the Federal Communications Commission made last August. The FCC placed phone companies in a class with cable services, freeing them from decades-old nondiscrimination ...
Study:Physical condition alters perception
Jun 15, 2006 |
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University of Virginia researchers say they've determined people's physical condition affects how they view their environment.
