Search results for bright house
It's time to green this old (White) House - again
Mar 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- President Barack Obama will find out two things as he studies how to make the White House more environmentally friendly:
LRO Sees Apollo 14's Rocket Booster Impact Site
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A distinctive crater about 35 meters (115 feet) in diameter was formed when the Apollo 14 Saturn IVB (upper stage) was intentionally impacted into the moon. The energy of the impact created ...
White House, hospitals reach deal on health care
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The nation's hospitals will give up $155 billion in future Medicare and Medicaid payments to help defray the cost of President Barack Obama's health care plan, a concession the White House hopes will boost an overhaul ...
Insignia Launches Two New GPS Devices
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 04, 2008 |
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Insignia has two new GPS devices available to the consumer; the 4.3-inch NS-CNV20 and the 3.5-inch NS-CNV10. Both models have a bright LCD screen and a slim profile that allows you to place it in your shirt ...
STAR TRAK for November: Mars is prominent again
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pumpkin-colored Mars will return to prominence during November, rising shortly before midnight at the beginning of the month and more than two hours earlier by month's end. The orange planet ...
New LED lights have a bright future for communication
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Imagine a world where bright, energy sipping, cheap, durable LEDs light the world. A world where if you have enough light to see, you are connected.
Smart computers to be a fact of life: expert
Sep 13, 2005 |
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A shopping mall where advertisements address you by name. A car that suggests you stop when you're passing a venue where your favourite band is about to go on stage. A house that anticipates your homecoming, even though you ...
Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A galaxy located billions of light-years away is commanding the attention of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and astronomers around the globe. Thanks to a series of flares that began ...
Researchers discover mechanism that helps humans see in bright and low light
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Ever wonder how your eyes adjust during a blackout? When we go from light to near total darkness, cells in the retina must quickly adjust. Vision scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...
Philips electronic skin technology enables new chameleon-like ambience designs
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Philips Research has developed a novel color e-paper technology that opens up new design opportunities for personalizing electronic devices. This means that the color and appearance, of the ...
Alzheimer's art creates lasting memories
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Nine paintings created through an Alzheimer's Association program called Memories in the Making are on display at UCI MIND.
Ghostly 'Spokes' Puff Out From Saturn's Ring's (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Massive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of Saturn's equinox. ...
Squid 'sight': Not just through eyes
Jun 01, 2009 |
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It's hard to miss the huge eye of a squid. But now it appears that certain squids can detect light through an organ other than their eyes as well.
Cute, efficient Eee Top looks like future of home computing
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Asus' adorable new touch-screen Eee Top desktop computer is a blast from the past. Not from the early days of computing, but the auto industry 40 years ago.
New type of supernova explosion reported; predicted by theoretical physicists at UCSB
Nov 05, 2009 |
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A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their t ...
