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A new computerised approach to airport operations is being developed that will reduce delays, speed up baggage handling and decrease pollution. http://www.physorg.com/news175174763.html Technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00:05 EST news175174763 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Utah, USA, have discovered that variations in signal strengths in wireless networks can be used to "see" movements of people on the other side of walls or doors. http://www.physorg.com/news173950468.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:40:02 EST news173950468 (PhysOrg.com) -- The 500-teraFLOPS Advanced Simulation and Computing program's Sequoia Initial Delivery System (Dawn), an IBM machine of the same lineage as BlueGene/L, has immediately proved itself useful as several initial science results demonstrated ground-breaking science, enhanced code performance, and some of the highest resolution, largest simulations ever run in their respective scientific field. http://www.physorg.com/news173548668.html Electronics Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:10:01 EST news173548668 Levels of chloride, a component of salt, are elevated in many urban streams and groundwater across the northern U.S., according to a new government study. http://www.physorg.com/news172326548.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:40:03 EST news172326548 Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, described in the August 6 issue of Science Express, overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstrations to larger quantum processors. http://www.physorg.com/news168791155.html Physics Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:26:23 EST news168791155 How can rescue units be better protected during disaster operations or avalanche victims be found quicker? A new localization system connects satellite-based positioning systems with terrestrial locating aids and situation-dependent sensory systems. http://www.physorg.com/news166793127.html Technology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:40:03 EST news166793127 (PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning today, ESA's Planck satellite will carry out a critical mid-course manoeuvre that will place the satellite on its final trajectory for arrival at L2, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, early in July. http://www.physorg.com/news163417527.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:45:58 EST news163417527 (AP) -- President Barack Obama's plan to impose U.S. taxes on corporate America's overseas profits threatens to open a big crater in the financial statements of technology companies. http://www.physorg.com/news160720875.html Technology Tue, 05 May 2009 05:42:05 EST news160720875 (PhysOrg.com) -- Tough economic times call for tough measures to remain competitive. That goes for software modernisation as well. A European project has just released a prototype of a software engineering platform that could help companies save time, money and energy as they scramble to upgrade complex IT systems. The timing could not be better. http://www.physorg.com/news160664977.html Technology Mon, 04 May 2009 14:15:55 EST news160664977 (AP) -- Countries with interests in Antarctica have endorsed U.S.-proposed mandatory limits on Antarctic tourism that aim to protect the continent's fragile environment, officials said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news159344537.html Space & Earth Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:22:55 EST news159344537 (PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is examining data received from Spirit in recent days to diagnose why the rover apparently rebooted its computer at least twice over the April 11-12 weekend. http://www.physorg.com/news158948038.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:14:44 EST news158948038 (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a new ion trap that enables ions to go through an intersection while keeping their cool. Ten million times cooler than in prior similar trips, in fact. The demonstration, described in a forthcoming paper in Physical Review Letters,* is a step toward scaling up trap technology to build a large-scale quantum computer using ions (electrically charged atoms), a potentially powerful machine that could perform certain calculations -such as breaking today`s best data encryption codes -much faster than today`s computers. http://www.physorg.com/news158417507.html Physics Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:52:14 EST news158417507 (AP) -- The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore. http://www.physorg.com/news158150057.html Space & Earth Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:34:47 EST news158150057 (PhysOrg.com) -- After liftoff 17 March, ESA's GOCE spacecraft is performing very well, having achieved an extremely accurate injection altitude of 283.5 km, just 1.5 km lower than planned. The Mission Control Team is now working round-the-clock shifts to implement a series of critical check-out procedures. http://www.physorg.com/news156697875.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:12:13 EST news156697875 If the Seattle Post-Intelligencer stops publishing in print but stays alive in some form online - as now seems likely - it won't be the first daily newspaper to make the move. http://www.physorg.com/news156019574.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:46:55 EST news156019574 (PhysOrg.com) -- As researchers strive to increase the density and functionality of circuit elements onto computer chips, one newer option they have is a memory resistor (or `memristor`), the fourth passive circuit element. First predicted to exist in 1971 and fabricated in 2008, memristors are two-terminal devices that change their resistance in response to the total amount of current flowing through them. http://www.physorg.com/news154865950.html Technology Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:19:55 EST news154865950 Seven years after Sept. 11, and in the wake of many major natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes and flooding, nearly half of U.S. states either have no state-level emergency plan or do not provide it readily to the public, reveals a new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Carl Botan. http://www.physorg.com/news143978561.html Other Sciences Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:02:41 EST news143978561 The Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met today at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France, to review ISS cooperation. http://www.physorg.com/news135604062.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:47:42 EST news135604062 Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently launched satellite. http://www.physorg.com/news134226731.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:12:11 EST news134226731 NASA`s GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Instrument Operations Center in Huntsville, Ala., the focal point for observing gamma ray bursts, was alive with energy as scientists gathered to witness instrument activation the evening of June 25. The GBM team linked in with GLAST mission operations at NASA`s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., by teleconference and studied a big screen projecting spacecraft information live. http://www.physorg.com/news133794319.html Space & Earth Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:05:19 EST news133794319