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'Nanostitching' could strengthen airplane skins, more

MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 2




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Solar storm sparks dazzling northern lights

A storm from the broiling sun turned the chilly northernmost skies of Earth into an ever-changing and awe-provoking art show of northern lights on Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Solar storm expected to fire up northern lights

Stargazers were out in force in northern Europe on Tuesday, hoping to be awed by a spectacular showing of northern lights after the most powerful solar storm in six years.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How can the salamander help fight degenerative disease?

Ever asked yourself why some animals can regenerate lost body parts, yet we can't grow back a limb? A new Australian research collaboration is offering a chance to solve this puzzle in the fight to cure degenerative ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Voyager 1 hits new region at solar system edge

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (37) | comments 118 | with audio podcast

Whale activists sue to free Lolita from captivity

(AP) -- Supporters have offered $1 million for her release. Annual demonstrations have demanded her return to the Northwest. Over the years, celebrities, schoolchildren and even a Washington state governor ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Trouble lurks for Indonesia's 'last paradise'

Huts on stilts perch above the coral of the turquoise lagoon, hammocks awaiting a lazy siesta and sunset cocktails. The Indonesian archipelago of Raja Ampat is a modern-day garden of Eden. But for how long?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Thai flood run-off threat to marine life

As billions of cubic metres of water flow away from Thailand's devastating floods, experts and campaigners are warning that millions of sea creatures could be the next victims of the disaster.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Metro belatedly opens in India's IT hub Bangalore

The first metro in India's IT hub of Bangalore rolls into service Thursday, a long-delayed and over-budget project to help the city's army of commuting software engineers and call centre staff.

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two rare hipparion species found from pliocene deposits of inner Mongolia

Pang Li-Bo, a graduate student paleontologist from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified two rare species of Hipparion- Hipparion (Baryhipparion) ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pro athletes ought to bargain outside federal court, legal scholar says

New research by a University of Illinois law and labor expert shows that in labor disputes between professional athletes and owners, courts have consistently failed to maintain a clear separation between antitrust ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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