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Rocket launches Air Force satellite from Fla.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A rocket carrying an Air Force satellite that will be used by the military has launched from Cape Canaveral.


Next-Generation Air Transportation System to Ultimately Succeed, Computer Scientist Predicts

Technology / Other

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Next Generation Air Transportation System, known as NextGen, is due for national implementation in stages between now and 2018. "I am predicting ultimate success and a system that will provide a much ...


A unique geography -- and soot and dust -- conspire against Himalayan glaciers

A unique geography -- and soot and dust -- conspire against Himalayan glaciers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

"So many disparate elements, both natural and man-made, converge in the Himalayas," said William Lau, a climatologist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There's no other place in the ...


Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ...


It took Beijing 48 years for the number of vehicles to increase from 2,300 in 1949 to the first 1 mln in 1997

Beijing vehicles exceed four million: state media

Space & Earth / Environment

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The number of registered vehicles in Beijing topped four million this week, state media reported, meaning a quarter of the 16 million permanent residents in China's capital have a car.


Scientists study hummingbirds flight to develop self-propelled surveillance devices

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

The secret to the flight of the hummingbird and other tiny birds and insects lies in the looping, swirling flow of air, called a vortex, that their flapping wings create.


New approach to emissions makes climate and air quality models more accurate, major study finds

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

It's no secret that the emissions leaving a car tailpipe or factory smokestack affect climate and air quality. Even trees release chemicals that influence the atmosphere. But until now, scientists have struggled to know where ...


Caltech scientists discover fog on Titan

Scientists discover fog on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. ...


AOptix Technologies and NuCrypt demonstrate physical-layer quantum encryption

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

AOptix Technologies, a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, and NuCrypt, a provider of technology for ultra-high security over optical communication networks, disclosed today the recent ...


Research in aircraft control systems and robotics helps improve flight safety

Research in aircraft control systems and robotics helps improve flight safety

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At first blush, it may not seem like robots and aircraft control systems have anything in common. When you put them together, however, you arrive at the core of Guangjun Liu’s unique research ...



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