Archive: 09/16/2005
Scientist: Rain in New Orleans would help
More rain would help New Orleans and Southern Mississippi, says an ecologist from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Deal launches Canada broadband network
A deal was announced Friday that will lead to a wireless broadband network that will serve much of Canada in less than three years.
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California game restrictions defended
A bill that would restrict access to overly violent or X-rated video games was defended Friday as being constitutionally sound.
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Stopping wireless ID theft
A New Jersey State Superior Court judge this week ordered a company that had acquired customer names from a major wireless carrier without its permission to refrain from selling those customer profiles to others and to surrender ...
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Night Vision System for Cars
At the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Siemens has introduced a night vision system that works with infrared technology. With this innovation, Siemens has also become the first automotive industry ...
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This Week on ISS
Life for the two crew members on board the International Space Station has been busy this week. They installed a replacement part for an oxygen-generating system, unpacked a recently arrived cargo carrier and disassembled ...
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Study suggests new way of making super-hard nanomaterials
Research conducted by a team of scientists led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory suggests a new way of making super-hard materials under high-pressure conditions. The research offers a glimpse at harder ...
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Ghostly spokes in Saturn's rings spotted by Cassini
Delighted scientists on the Cassini imaging team will be breaking out the champagne in celebration of the first Cassini sighting of spokes, the ghostly radial markings discovered in Saturn's rings by NASA's ...
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Telecom deal struck for Beijing Olympics
A China Netcom Group subsidiary has entered into an agreement to provide telecom services for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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Internet2 fall meeting to be Netcast
Next week's fall meeting of Internet2 will be available on live Netcast. The meeting, which will take place in Philadelphia Sept. 19-22, is a forum for the latest scientific research into Internet technology.
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Arctic sea ice may be at 'tipping point'
Arctic ice melting may have accelerated to a "tipping point" that will produce a vicious cycle of melting and heating, U.S. scientists say.
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NASA to replace shuttle
NASA's plan to replace the space shuttle with a spacecraft to take astronauts to the moon and Mars has been approved, U.S. officials said.
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Delivering on digital content’s full potential
The hardware and software developed by a European project aims to unleash the full potential of digital media by offering the secure creation, delivery and consumption of audiovisual media across a wide range of hybrid networks ...
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New trigonometry is a sign of the times
Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric ...
Sep 16, 2005 |
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Solar Minimum Explodes
Just one week ago, on Sept. 7th, a huge sunspot rounded the sun's eastern limb. As soon as it appeared, it exploded, producing one of the brightest x-ray solar flares of the Space Age. In the days that followed, ...
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