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Toward cheap underwater sensor nets

Toward cheap underwater sensor nets

Technology / Engineering

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop ...





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First phase of pan-tropical forest mapping debuting at COP15

Space & Earth / Environment

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Tropical forest loss accounts for an estimated 17% of global emissions of carbon dioxide. As part of a strategy to reduce these greenhouse gas fluxes to the atmosphere, the UNFCCC's Conference of the Parties 15 in Copenhagen ...


Ubiquitous health: Enabling telemedicine to cut hospital visits, save money

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient's family or physician to problematic changes in the person's vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers ...


Researchers Identify the Most Promiscuous Birds in the World

Researchers Identify the Most Promiscuous Birds in the World

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn ornithologist Chris Elphick and his colleagues carried out DNA tests to discover the paternity of Saltmarsh Sparrow nestlings.


NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements for the Global Precipitation ...


Nobel winners helped by independence, coffee (AP)

Nobel winners helped by independence, coffee

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Intellectual freedom, independent research and frequent coffee breaks with colleagues helped this year's Nobel Prize winners make their groundbreaking scientific discoveries.


New technology could boost disease detection tests' speed and sensitivity

New technology could boost disease detection tests' speed and sensitivity (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids. The findings, which will be published the week of December ...


NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), launched aboard STS-129 on November, 16, for transport to the International ...


Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...


Chicken of the sea? Tuna farming getting a boost (AP)

Chicken of the sea? Tuna farming getting a boost

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild. Is this sushi's ...


Gift Guide: Tech gadgets can boost your workouts (AP)

Gift Guide: Tech gadgets can boost your workouts

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- In simpler times, maintaining good health was a matter of joining a gym or lacing up running shoes for a loop in the park. At most, you'd buy a watch with a digital display so you could time your laps.



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