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:: 06 May, 2008
The Earth’s oceans play a vital role in the carbon cycle, making it imperative that we understand marine biological activity enough to predict how our planet will react to the extra 25 000 million tonnes of carbon dioxide humans are pumping into...
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:: 06 May, 2008
For a research physicist, Sandra Ciocio knows all about the trials of the construction site. In recent years she’s seen 7,000 tons of sensitive equipment lowered down a 100-m shaft to prepare for a single grand experiment. The technology was...
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:: 06 May, 2008
Poland reinforced its relations with ESA by signing the Plan for European Cooperating State Charter. This is a direct follow up to the signing of the European Cooperating State Agreement in April 2007.
The Plan for European Cooperating State...
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:: 30 April, 2008
After its successful launch by a Soyuz Rocket from Baiknour on 27 April and accurate insertion into its target orbit by the Fregat autonomous upper stage, GIOVE-B is now completing its Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP), which will shortly...
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:: 30 April, 2008
Artificial intelligence (AI) being used at the European Space Operations Centre is giving a powerful boost to ESA's Mars Express as it searches for signs of past or present life on the Red Planet.
Since January 2005, Mars Express has been using...
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:: 30 April, 2008
Nokia announced today that SNAP Mobile, its connected mobile Java(TM) gaming platform, has expanded games distribution channels in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan. Through further cooperation with SINA Corporation, a leading online...
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:: 29 April, 2008
A group of Italian and Chinese physicists, led by Rita Bernabei University of Rome, announced that it had found particles of dark matter that, in accordance with current cosmological models, dominates the dynamics and evolution of all only 10% of...
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:: 29 April, 2008
AUSTRALIAN scientists are at the core of the largest and one of the most controversial science experiments in history - recreating conditions at the beginning of the universe.
The $8 billion, 27-kilometre circle of the Large Hadron Collider,...
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:: 29 April, 2008
Nokia and ARC Transistance, the European network of automobile clubs, announced today that they are working together to provide Real Time Traffic Information to users of Nokia mobile devices. Nokia will offer the service as a premium offering in...
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:: 28 April, 2008
A former gold mine that yielded riches for more than a century is poised to spend the next half-century offering scientific prospectors a deeper understanding of the universe.
More than 350 of the world's top scientists descended on South...
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:: 28 April, 2008
As a laboratory, we must constantly look toward our future. Over the past nine months, there has been a concerted effort across the lab to articulate science goals and develop plans for future facilities that will help us achieve those goals....
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:: 27 April, 2008
UK scientists building a computing Grid for particle physics have launched the next phase of their project, in advance of the start of the world’s largest experiment. Over the last six years, the GridPP collaboration has successfully built a...
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:: 27 April, 2008
A scientist involved in one of the first experiments being planned for the underground lab at Homestake says the goal is to discover dark matter “within the next few years.''
That's the goal, anyway, if such matter really exists, Robert...
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:: 27 April, 2008
A further step towards the deployment of Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite system was taken tonight, with the successful launch of ESA's second Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE-B) satellite, carrying the most accurate atomic...
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:: 27 April, 2008
ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used for the first time early this morning to raise the orbit of the International Space Station. A 740-second burn of the Automated Transfer Vehicle's main engines successfully lifted the altitude of the 280-tonne...
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:: 22 April, 2008
What do melting chocolate and bubbles in a champagne glass have in common? Besides being treats one might sample at a sophisticated soiree, they are both handy examples of first-order phase transitions in which a material transforms from one phase...
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:: 21 April, 2008
Without clear leadership and more transparency in federal risk research investment, the emergence of safe nanotechnologies will be a happy accident, rather than a foregone conclusion, says Dr. Andrew Maynard. This sentiment was voiced today by Dr....
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:: 21 April, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator collider being built at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, or CERN, straddling the French-Swiss border near Geneva. It should be completed and ready to start producing data sometime...
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:: 20 April, 2008
Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits.
Lift-off of flight V182 took place at 00:17...
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:: 20 April, 2008
Superheavy element 114 should be a metal. Controversial data from an experiment in Dubna, Russia, suggest instead that effects from Einstein's theory of relativity might make the element's chemistry closer to that of a noble gas, like radon. If...
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