Future cars could be fuelled by hydrogen technology
Nov 16, 2005 |
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A small CSIRO-developed hydrogen device the size of a domestic microwave oven may be all you need to fuel your car in the future. A team at CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology has developed a s ...
Student solves a 30 year old mathematics problem
Nov 16, 2005 |
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UQ postgraduate student Daniel Horsley has solved a mathematics problem that has defied experts around the world for more than 30 years.
Magnetic fields revealed in technicolour
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Nov 16, 2005 |
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Vibrations of magnetization have for the first time been captured on camera by scientists at The University of Manchester revealing a rainbow of colours. For the first time, images of induced magnetic pul ...
Marathon of Nano-Sprinters
Nov 16, 2005 |
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Processive bio-molecular motors, which move actively along cytoskeletal filaments, drive the cargo traffic in cells and in biomimetic systems. A single motor molecule is sufficient for continuous transport ...
Solar energy has potential to dominate by 2030
Nov 16, 2005 |
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Professor Andrew Blakers from The Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University will today report to the Greenhouse 2000 Conference in Melbourne that photovoltaic (PV) solar energy ...
Integral reveals new class of 'supergiant' X-ray binary stars
Nov 16, 2005 |
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ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has discovered a new, highly populated class of X-ray fast ‘transient’ binary stars, undetected in previous observations. With this discovery, Integral confirms how much ...
Nature is 'always more crazy than we are'
Nov 16, 2005 |
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Astronomers say more than a thousand planets might be lurking in our galactic neighborhood. That's the conclusion they reached in explaining the genesis of a giant planet discovered in July by Maciej Konacki, then at the ...
Report: Newspaper Web sites see readership rise
Nov 16, 2005 |
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While print newspapers continue to dwindle in circulation, newspaper Web site readership is thriving, up 11 percent from last year, according to Neilson//NetRatings. Newspaper Web sites attracted 39.3 million unique visitors in ...
Tech gadgets spell boom for support service
Nov 16, 2005 |
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From iPods to smartphones, some of the most sought-after gifts these days are tech gadgets. The problem is that the products sometimes require so much time and effort to set up that frustration surpasses the pleasure of acquiring ...
The Web: Chinese economy facing IT threats
Nov 16, 2005 |
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China's economy continues its incredible growth -- at an annual rate of 27.2 percent -- but the IT infrastructure at all the new offices, research parks and other projects isn't keeping pace and is increasingly imperiled ...
Spitzer Harvests Dozens of New Stars
Nov 16, 2005 |
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Just in time for Thanksgiving, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has harvested a bounty of young stars. A new infrared image of the reflection nebula NGC 1333, located about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the ...
From broadcast to broadband
Nov 16, 2005 |
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Technology is on the way to use vacant television channels for wireless broadband Internet service, but critics from the broadcasting industry argue that using the channels for unlicensed wireless activity will interfere ...
Women increasingly pick husbands’ surnames over their own
Nov 16, 2005 |
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What’s in a name – or two names? Quite a bit, says a University of Florida professor, whose research finds that a growing number of brides are returning to tradition when taking a man’s hand in marriage, assuming his name ...
Seasonal depression may affect hamsters
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An Ohio State University study suggests hamsters may suffer from symptoms of anxiety and depression during the dark days of winter, just as some humans.
Climate Warming to Shrink Key Water Supplies Around the World
Nov 16, 2005 |
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In the looming future, global warming will reduce glaciers and storage packs of snow in regions around the world, causing water shortages and other problems that will impact millions of people. That is the conclusion of researchers ...
