Sandia-designed supercomputer ranked world's most efficient in two of six categories
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A new series of measurements -- the next step in evolution of criteria to determine more accurately the efficiency of supercomputers -- has rated Sandia National Laboratories' Red Storm computer the best in ...
Expedition 13 Launched From Baikonur
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Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Jeff Williams began their mission Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. EST. They launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Joining ...
Another view of mass extinctions is heard
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A University of Washington paleontologist says most mass extinctions were caused by gradual climate change and not catastrophic asteroid impacts.
Quantum Dot Method Rapidly Identifies Bacteria
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A rapid method for detecting and identifying very small numbers of diverse bacteria, from anthrax to E. coli, has been developed by scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institute of Sta ...
Resisting Radiation
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In Star Wars and Star Trek movies, people travel between planets and galaxies with ease. But our future in space is far from assured. Issues of hyperdrive and wormholes aside, it doesn't seem possible that the human body co ...
New study sets benchmark properties for popular conducting plastic
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Steadily increasing the length of a purified conducting polymer vastly improves its ability to conduct electricity, report researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, whose work appeared March 22 in the Journal of ...
Russian 'Jurassic park' under development
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Thirty Canadian bison are being donated to Russia for Pleistocene Park, an ice age reserve under development that will feature the area's extinct species.
Using probes to control chemistry - molecule by molecule
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Using probes originally designed to detect and image topographical features on surfaces, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated the ability to initiate ...
Rare whales die beached in South Florida
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Three rare, deep-dwelling whales that became beached Wednesday on Florida's South Hutchinson Island reportedly have been euthanized.
Astronomers discover evidence of football-field sized moonlets in Saturn's A ring
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New observations of propeller-shaped disturbances in Saturn's A ring indicate the presence of four small, embedded moons -- and most likely millions more, Cornell University astronomers report.
Outer Banks area may be losing its charm
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A National Geographic Society official says the Outer Banks areas off North Carolina are in danger of losing their charm.
U.K. biometric ID card faces questions
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The introduction of biometric national identification cards to the United Kingdom now seems like an inevitability. Yet doubts have been raised by a committee in the House of Commons itself about whether existing technology ...
Researchers develop technology for creation of antiwear polymer films
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When Michael Furey, professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering, at Virginia Tech, met Czeslaw Kajdas, then with the Radom Technical University in Poland, at a conference in Europe in 1981, they had differing views ...
Feds proposed new fuel economy rules
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The federal government has proposed new fuel economy standards for light trucks, including the largest sport utility vehicles.
Simulation Tracks Planetary Evolution
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Two British astronomers have constructed a computer simulation that tracks how giant protoplanets tend to form and migrate inward toward their central star.
