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Arctic chill brings Facebook data center to Sweden
(AP) -- Facebook will build a new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle - its first outside the U.S. - that will improve performance for European users of the social networking site, officials said ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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America's new wonder: a record-breaking bridge
America's greatest technological achievement, the Hoover Dam, now has a soaring companion piece, a massive looming bridge held up by the longest arch in the Western Hemisphere.
Oct 17, 2010 |
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Climate change means shortfalls in Colorado River water deliveries
The Colorado River system supplies water to tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland, and has never experienced a delivery shortage. But if human-caused climate change continues to make ...
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Quagga mussels are clogging Hoover Dam, colonizing lakes and rivers
It took some of America's best engineers, thousands of laborers and two years of around-the-clock concrete pouring to build the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam back in the 1930s. It took less time than that for the tiny, brainless ...
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Rocket launches from California coast
A rocket carrying a national security payload has been successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's central coast.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Life on earth could be transformed by NASA space technology
For years, NASA has been developing technology to establish long-duration human presence in space. As part of this ongoing effort, NASA developed a closed-loop system that recycles urine and gray water into drinking water. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2010 |
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'Fallout: New Vegas' takes post-apocalypse play to Sin City
As luck would have it, Las Vegas was spared from the nuclear bombs responsible for the radioactive wasteland known and loved by fans of "Fallout" videogames.
Oct 17, 2010 |
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Congress Considers Cow Power, Other Alternative Energy Technologies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Legislators attending this year's Congressional Energy and Energy Efficiency Expo and Forum in Washington, DC, last week were quick to point out the problems with fossil fuel -- from cave-ins ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Researchers look at water-energy impacts of climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate projections for the next 50 to 100 years forecast increasingly frequent severe droughts and heat waves across the American Southwest, sinking available water levels even as rising mercury drives up ...
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Invasive mussels imperil western water system
(AP) -- Two years after an invasive mussel was first discovered at Lake Mead, the population has firmly established itself and gone on a breeding binge, with numbers soaring into the trillions.
Jul 18, 2009 |
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NASA satellites watch as China constructs giant dam
Some call it the eighth wonder of world. Others say it's the next Great Wall of China. Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam along China’s Yangtze River will be the world's largest hydroelectric power generator and ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2007 |
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