Climate change transforms Alaska landscape
Sep 28, 2005 |
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Canadian researchers say lakes and wetlands in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula are drying at a significant rate due to global warming.
Robots to shed light on sexual disease
Sep 28, 2005 |
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It won’t be long before automated DNA test contribute to providing more knowledge about the up to now nearly unknown sexually transmitted mycoplasma – truly more widespread than chlamydia. Mycoplasma is a bacterial infection ...
Mammals triumphed with oxygen increase
Sep 28, 2005 |
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The first high resolution, continuous record of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere indicates a sharp rise in oxygen about 50 million years ago.
Berkeley Lab Technology Could Help Areas Flooded by Katrina
Sep 28, 2005 |
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DNA ‘Phylochip’ Scans for Thousands of Disease-Causing Microbes The flood waters that filled the streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are now heavily populated with bacteria, viruses and other ...
Japan carriers brace for VoIP competition
Sep 28, 2005 |
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Having the hottest mobile-phone model remains a status symbol among Japan's glitterati and school children alike, but some of the biggest changes in the telecommunications market are coming from less-apparent areas, such ...
NASA Ships Shuttle Fuel Tank To New Orleans For Modification
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Less than a month after being hit by Hurricane Katrina, NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans is gearing up to restart processing space shuttle fuel tanks. The work will address foam loss during Space Shuttle Discovery's ...
Moscow, Seoul To Cooperate In Space Exploration
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A bilateral agreement between Russia and South Korea was signed Tuesday authorizing the building of a space center in South Korea and the training of a Korean astronaut for a mission at the International Space Station, reports ...
Mathematics Unites The Heavens And The Atom
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Sep 28, 2005 |
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In recent years, mathematicians have discovered an almost perfect parallel between the motion of spacecraft through the solar system and the motion of atoms in a chemical reaction - a hidden unity that has led to innovative ...
Mobile cos. unveil cellular television set
Sep 28, 2005 |
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Japanese phone groups NTT DoCoMo and KDDI said Wednesday they have each developed a mobile phone that receives television programming.
Arctic sea ice continues decline as temperatures rise
Sep 28, 2005 |
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New satellite records monitored by a national team of collaborators show a four-year pattern of extremely low summer sea-ice coverage in the Arctic that continued in September 2005, which may be the result of warming temperatures ...
Broadband usage up
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Two out of every five Americans have broadband access at home, according to a report by Nielsen/NetRatings.
Forecasters warn of more major hurricanes
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U.S. meteorologists say conditions that spawned hurricanes Rita and Katrina still exist, creating the likelihood of another intense hurricane next month.
The Web: Internet voting still a long way off?
Sep 28, 2005 |
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Some of the recommendations to improve electronic voting technology made by the election reform commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker provide only "marginal" improvements ...
It's a bug's life: MIT team tells moving tale
Sep 28, 2005 |
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MIT mathematicians have discovered how certain insects can climb what to them are steep, slippery slopes in the water's surface without moving their limbs -- and do it at high speed.
Shredded tires a cheap, environmentally friendly way to cover landfills
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Placing shredded tires on top of -- rather than in -- landfills can save money and benefit the environment, researchers from the University of Illinois say.
