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Managing fisheries with semantic technologies
Jun 25, 2008 |
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A semantic software development toolkit designed by European researchers could help the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) improve its management of the world’s fisheries.
Neon blue-tailed tree lizard glides like a feather
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Most lacertid lizards are content scurrying in and out of nooks and crannies in walls and between rocks. However, some have opted for an arboreal life style. Neon blue tailed tree lizards (Holaspis guentheri) leap from b ...
The sun may contain more neon than thought
Jul 28, 2005 |
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory's survey of nearby sun-like stars suggests there's nearly three times more neon in the sun and local universe than thought.
Oak Ridge pegged for national ecological network
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Dozens of instruments to be deployed on the Oak Ridge Reservation and other sites around the nation will provide valuable information related to climate change, biodiversity and invasive species, infectious diseases and ...
First Test of New X-ray Laser Strips Neon Bare
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes a lot of energy to strip all ten electrons from an atom of neon. Doing it from the inside out, knocking away the most-closely-held, innermost electrons first, is an even rarer feat. ...
Designing semantic software by numbers
Jun 23, 2008 |
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A system for creating semantic software could transform application development from a cottage industry to an industrial-style production line. Semantic applications are the next frontier for information science, but creating ...
Astronomers Will Trace Planet Formation With Neon
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Astronomers have observed neon in disks of dust and gas swirling around sunlike stars for the first time.
Neon study resolves sun dilemma
Aug 01, 2005 |
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A new survey of the sun's neighboring stars suggests there is nearly three times more neon in the sun than previously believed, thus solving a theoretical conundrum about the way the sun transfers heat and ...
Genesis Findings Solve Apollo Lunar Soil Mystery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2006 |
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Ever since astronauts returned from another world, scientists have been mystified by some of the moon rocks they brought back. Now one of the mysteries has been solved. "We learned a great deal about the sun ...
Breakthrough With Ultra-Fast Xrays
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Electromagnetically-induced transparency, or EIT, has been known in the visible realm for quite some time. The process is used to control such characteristics as dispersion and absorption in gases, allowing the gases to become ...
New Evidence for the 'Solar Oxygen Crisis'
May 02, 2007 |
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Scientists have published new evidence supporting the recent discovery that the Sun contains about half as much oxygen as previously thought, an issue some scientists have dubbed the solar oxygen crisis. This ...
Controlling most atoms now possible
Mar 06, 2008 |
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Stopping and cooling most of the atoms of the periodic table is now possible using a pair of techniques developed by physicist Mark Raizen at The University of Texas at Austin.
Atomic Coilgun Halts Supersonic Beams
Mar 17, 2008 |
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By magnetically pulsing a sequence of 64 copper coils in an “atomic coilgun,” scientists have succeeded in stopping a supersonic neon beam in its tracks in just microseconds.
WU scientists analyze solar wind samples from Genesis Mission
Oct 30, 2007 |
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As reservoirs of valuable information go, nothing beats the sun. This sphere of heat and energy holds 99.9 percent of the solar system, saved in all original proportions after planets and meteorites formed. ...
Two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone ...
