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:: 06 April, 2007
A new NASA study has found that in 2005 the Arctic replaced very little of the thick sea ice it normally loses and replenishes each year. Replenishment of this thick, perennial sea ice each year is essential to the maintenance and stability of the...
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HFEA consults on ways to reduce avoidable problems for IVF babies
Fertility regulator launches public consultation to find best ways of reducing the proportion of multiple births after IVF
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...
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TORRANCE, Calif. – A breakthrough version of Honda’s humanoid robot ASIMO made its North American debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nev. The latest ASIMO incorporates several significant technological advancements...
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the Honda Racing F1 Team will develop and manufacture its 2008 Formula One car with the help of IBM software and services. In addition to delivering significant benefits to the business challenges faced by the...
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:: 05 April, 2007
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is making a trip to the zoo an entirely new experience for school kids around the country.
The zoo is now providing video learning programs from many of its animal exhibits throughout the 168-acre park using Cisco®...
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Two university professors have combined their knowledge of science and videogames to create a game that helps students learn chemistry.
Instead of using books, beakers and test tubes, students battle aliens and other mysterious forces that are...
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:: 05 April, 2007
Russian computer security company Kaspersky Lab announced on Thursday that it had discovered the first virus designed specifically to infect iPods. The catch? You actually have to put it on your iPod-and your iPod needs to have Linux installed on...
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:: 05 April, 2007
In clear evidence that Sony's $6 million PlayStation 3 marketing campaign is working, Australian gamers ignored the high price tag and lapped up $33 million worth of PS3 hardware and software in the 10 days following its March 23 launch.
That...
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As spring melt of winter snow is underway in the Baltic Sea watershed region, satellites are monitoring and mapping the snow melting process to help local authorities manage water supplies and predict and prepare for floods. Remote sensing is the...
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:: 05 April, 2007
Astronomers using data from several X-ray satellites have caught a magnetar – the remnant of a massive star with an incredibly strong magnetic field – in a sort of giant cosmic blench.
When it comes to eerie astrophysical effects, the neutron...
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:: 05 April, 2007
The "buddy system" has been used for years as a way to keep children from wandering off. Staying close to a friend greatly reduces the chances of getting lost. Tevatron physicists are hoping they can also rely on this principle to find a particle...
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The strong electric field from an intense laser pulse can cause electrons to "tunnel" away from an atom in just one billion-billionth of a second. Now physicists in Germany are the first to observe this well-known quantum-mechanical process as it...
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:: 05 April, 2007
Using a laser-cooling technique that could one day allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in large objects, MIT researchers have cooled a coin-sized object to within one degree of absolute zero.
This study marks the coldest temperature...
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:: 05 April, 2007
There are two compelling theories to explain the observed correlations. In one theory, the black holes are formed first, and then regulate galaxy formation by producing huge amounts of radiation that pushes on the protogalactic gas. This pressure...
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Computers can usually out-compute the human brain, but there are some tasks, such as visual object recognition, that the brain performs easily yet are very challenging for computers. To explore this phenomenon, neuroscientists have long used rapid...
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Over the next few years, the United States and the international high-energy physics communities will see great scientific opportunities and profound changes. These, in turn, will pose profound challenges. We must make the right choices on the...
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:: 05 April, 2007
Asteroids are Earth's closest celestial neighbors, sometimes passing closer to Earth than even the Moon. And yet, to date, only two spacecraft have ever remained in proximity to one of these bodies. Last month, orbit mechanics experts from around...
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The fabled Bell Labs, in one of its first major technological tours de
force as a French company, has demonstrated the world's first complementary
metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), silicon-based, tunable optical waveguide
equalizer -...
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In wet lab 412C on the University of Southern California’s Los Angeles campus, Vijay Srinivasan is poking a long, evil-looking needle at a slice of rat brain about half the size of a fingernail. All around him, coils of cable are piled near...
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:: 04 April, 2007
CUSat is a multi-year effort to design, build, and launch an autonomous in-orbit inspection satellite system. The CUSat space vehicle consists of two functionally identical satellites that will launch together and separate in orbit. Using...
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