News tagged with demonstrates
Europeans protest controversial Internet pact
Tens of thousands of people marched in protests in more than a dozen European cities Saturday against a controversial anti-online piracy pact that critics say could curtail Internet freedom.
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Bolivians demand controversial highway be built
More than 2,000 Amazon Indians on Monday called on Bolivian President Evo Morales to approve the building of a highway through a nature reserve, a project scrapped last year after widespread protests.
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Quantum mechanics enables perfectly secure cloud computing
Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the principles of ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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High-tech companies take on urban design with smart cities
Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and other major Japanese electronics makers are increasingly turning their sights toward "smart city" projects designed to create eco-friendly, energy-efficient communities.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 18, 2012 |
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NEC demonstrates first terabit/s superchannel transmission over 10,000km
NEC Corporation has announced the successful experimental demonstration of 1.15-Tb/s ultra-long haul optical transmission over 10,000 kilometers using optical superchannel technology.
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Depleted gas reservoirs can double as geologic carbon storage sites
(PhysOrg.com) -- A demonstration project on the southeastern tip of Australia has helped to verify that depleted natural gas reservoirs can be repurposed for geologic carbon sequestration, which is a climate ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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NASA 'Smart SPHERES' tested successfully on international space station
(PhysOrg.com) -- In November, a free-flying robot on the International Space Station successfully gathered and delivered motion data to its astronaut handler for the first time via a new smartphone controller. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Keeping our beaches safe: New wireless sensor device rapidly detects E. coli in water samples
Fecal contamination of public beaches caused by sewage overflow is both dangerous for swimmers and costly for state and local economies. Current methods to detect Escherichia coli, a bacterium highly indicative of the pr ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Guided rockets hit fast-moving boat targets in test
A weapon prototype developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully hit two high-speed boat targets during recent testing in Point Mugu, Calif.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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The road to ultrahigh-resolution X-ray spectrometers
Two recent developments at the Advanced Photon Source explore paths to routine use of sub-meV x-rays to probe low-energy excitations in matter. The first is a remarkable experimental demonstration of an x-ray ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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German police battle with 1000s blocking nuke train
German police battled thousands of anti-nuclear protestors Sunday, many chained to railroad tracks, who have caused delays as they try to block a train carrying radioactive waste.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 27, 2011 |
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NRL Monterey develops more accurate tropical cyclone prediction model
Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Meteorology Division (MMD), Monterey, Calif., have developed the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System Tropical Cyclone (COAMPS-TC) ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2011 |
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NASA develops new game-changing technology
Two NASA California centers have been selected to develop new space-aged technologies that could be game-changers in the way we look at planets from above and how we safely transport robots or humans through ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2011 |
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NASA to test new atomic clock
When people think of space technologies, many think of solar panels, propulsion systems and guidance systems. One important piece of technology in spaceflight is an accurate timing device.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Hundreds in Seattle rally against fossil fuel use
(AP) -- A few hundred people in Seattle have joined citizens around the globe in rallying against fossil fuel use and in support of alternative means of transportation.
Sep 25, 2011 |
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