Future cars could be fuelled by hydrogen technology
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
Women increasingly pick husbands’ surnames over their own
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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 ...
It's A Tankless Job
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It's hiding in your home, probably in a closet or dark corner of the basement. You depend on it daily, but don't give it much thought until you become too demanding and it lets you down. It's your water heater, and thanks ...
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 ...
Integral reveals new class of 'supergiant' X-ray binary stars
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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 ...
Feds develop plans to kill Canadian geese
Nov 16, 2005 |
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a formal plan to reduce the number of Canada geese in the United States.
Nature is 'always more crazy than we are'
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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 ...
Ranks Of 'Environmental Refugees' Swell
Nov 16, 2005 |
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Amid predictions that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many as 50 million people escaping the effects of creeping environmental deterioration, United Nations University experts say the international community urgently ...
Spitzer Harvests Dozens of New Stars
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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 ...
Marathon of Nano-Sprinters
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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 ...
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.
Breakthrough streamlines complex work assignments
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Christodoulos Floudas and his students Stacy Janak and Martin Taylor have invented a mathematical formula that may transform the way that day-to-day work assignments are made across government and industry.
