Study: Doctors not ready for bioterrorism
Sep 26, 2005 |
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A Johns Hopkins University study in Baltimore indicates many U.S. physicians are ill-prepared to diagnose or treat bioterrorism diseases.
'Smart Concrete' Could Improve Levees
Sep 26, 2005 |
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The failure of levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina points out the need for new technologies to strengthen levees and monitor their reliability, according to Deborah D. L. Chung, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo materials ...
Mapping the Risks of Hurricane Disasters
Sep 26, 2005 |
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The Natural Disaster Hotspots report released earlier this year showed that the U.S. Gulf Coast is among the world's most at-risk regions in terms of human mortality and economic loss due to storms like Katrina ...
Squeezing out dune plants
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Researchers from Texas A&M University created a model to better understand the impacts of development and coastal erosion on plant communities, including plants that grow in the ever-shrinking strip of habitat between land ...
Solar Cars Driving Towards A Hydrogen Future
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Competitors in this week's Panasonic World Solar Challenge will be demonstrating some of the fundamental technical innovations driving us towards the hydrogen economy, according to event partner, CSIRO.
Envisat and ERS-2 reveal hidden side of Hurricane Rita (update)
Sep 26, 2005 |
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As Hurricane Rita entered the Gulf of Mexico, ESA's Envisat satellite's radar was able to pierce through swirling clouds to directly show how the storm churns the sea surface. This image has then been used ...
CryoSat Launch Will Be Blast From The Cold War Past
Sep 26, 2005 |
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CryoSat's 8 October flight atop its Rockot launcher will be of historical significance in more ways than one. In a striking juxtaposition of new and old, the ESA ice satellite mated to a newly-finished Breeze-KM upper stage ...
First Modernized GPS Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Launched
Sep 26, 2005 |
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The U.S. Air Force has launched, and safely inserted into orbit, the first modernized Global Positioning System satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, aboard a Delta II rocket on Sept. 25, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ...
ESA selects targets for asteroid-deflecting mission Don Quijote
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Based on the recommendations of asteroid experts, ESA has selected two target asteroids for its Near-Earth Object deflecting mission, Don Quijote.
Networking: Virus writing for profit
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Unscrupulous e-mail marketers are collaborating with criminal virus writers to combine selling questionable goods and services online with attempting to steal information from consumers, experts told United Press International's ...
AMD Powers Ahead With Three New Models Of Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processors
Sep 26, 2005 |
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AMD announced three new models in the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor family, delivering the world’s highest performance for one-way to eight-way x86 servers and workstations.
SMART-1 set for more lunar science
Sep 26, 2005 |
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ESA’s SMART-1 mission in orbit around the Moon has had its scientific lifetime extended by ingenious use of its solar-electric propulsion system (or ‘ion engine’).
Intel Continues Push Down Power-Optimization Path With Intel Xeon Processor Line
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Completing an era in enterprise computing and signaling the beginning of a new generation of platforms and capabilities, Intel Corporation announced availability of its last planned single-core Intel Xeon processor. Intel ...
Scientists to Use HDTV for a High-Definition Look at Surreal Sea Floor
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Ocean scientists are planning for the first time to use a high-definition (HD) television camera for live views of an area of the sea floor that has been twisted by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and is dotted with eerie ...
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