Preserving a 460 year old wreck
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An international team of researchers has analysed the sulphur and iron composition in the wooden timbers of the Mary Rose, an English warship wrecked in 1545, which was salvaged two decades ago. The team used ...
Penn Theorists to Create Optical Circuit Elements
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Sep 27, 2005 |
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Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a means of shrinking electronics so they could be run using light instead of electricity. In the search to create faster, smaller and more energy-efficient electronics, ...
From aircraft aerodynamics to improved heart implants
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At first glance airplane wings and human hearts have little in common, but, say a team of European researchers, a technology used to measure airflow over wings can now be used to help keep hearts in working order.
Deflecting asteroids could lead to more versatile spaceprobes
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The UK’s first engineering feasibility study into missions for deflecting asteroids has begun.
NASA, Industry Partners Complete Tests of Solar Sails
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NASA engineers and their industry partners have successfully deployed two 400-square-meter solar sails during ground testing. This is a critical milestone in the development of a unique propulsion technology that uses the ...
China's tech commissars target SMS porn
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China's Ministry of Information Industry, the regulator of telecom, Internet and information-technology development, said it is targeting cell-phone smut.
NASA Facilities Weather Hurricane Rita
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The three NASA facilities that were in the path of Hurricane Rita are now making damage assessments and cleaning up. NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and Stennis Space Center ...
NASA's Pluto Space Probe Begins Launch Preparations
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday for final preparations and testing for the probe's decade-long journey. It will be the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and its moon ...
Launch Of Russia Rocket Postponed
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The launch of a Kosmos-3 booster from Russia's northern cosmodrome Plesetsk has been postponed from September 30 to a later date, reports Itar-Tass.
Greg Olsen To Perform Research On ISS For European Space Agency
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Space Adventures announced Tuesday a science agreement with the European Space Agency, for a research program to be performed with Greg Olsen, Ph.D. who will visit the International Space Station next month.
Secrets of the deep may hold key to life on other planets
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Extraordinary creatures who inhabit extreme underwater conditions are being investigated by University scientists in a three-year project. These deep-sea communities could reveal an evolutionary history different to anything ...
Space test for Swiss-designed solar antennas
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The rocket's payload will also include a satellite designed and built by students from several European universities, including a group of EPFL students.
Intel, Research In Motion Collaborate on Next-Generation BlackBerry Devices
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Intel Corporation and Research In Motion (RIM) announced an extensive technology collaboration in which RIM will use Intel communications technology in future BlackBerry® devices. RIM is adopting the Intel XScale® architecture ...
NSF Centers Will Use Nano-Interface Control and Bioengineering for Materials by Design
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has established two new Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs) at Yale University and the University of Washington, with a combined NSF investment of up to $14 million ...
U.S. to open door to VoIP wiretaps
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New rules allowing wiretaps of Voice over Internet Protocol conversations are expected to be issued by U.S. authorities in 2007.
