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:: 24 October, 2009
As Saturn's rings orbit the planet, a section is typically in the planet's shadow, experiencing a brief night lasting from 6 to 14 hours. However,...
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:: 24 October, 2009
Carbon fiber composite materials (CFRP’s) not only make cars and airplanes lightweight but also benefit the light weight constructions for valuable...
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:: 23 October, 2009
PNAS paper indicates that changes since the middle of the 20th century are unprecedented.
The possibility that climate change might simply be...
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:: 23 October, 2009
A robot is currently building a looping brick wall right in the middle of New York. Over a period of three weeks, passers-by can watch the “Pike...
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:: 23 October, 2009
If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance...
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:: 23 October, 2009
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale...
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:: 22 October, 2009
Wireless technology that's been touted as the best hope for providing high-speed Internet access to rural communities is about to get its first...
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:: 22 October, 2009
It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given...
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:: 21 October, 2009
Municipal transit agencies have tried to reduce the carbon footprint of their bus fleets using a range of options over the years, from biofuels and...
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:: 21 October, 2009
The first commercial product to incorporate dye-sensitized thin-film solar cells will soon be on the market. Backpacks coated with the cheap,...
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:: 21 October, 2009
Plans for genetic analyses of 100,000 older Californians--the first time genetic data will be generated for such a large and diverse group--will...
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:: 20 October, 2009
No dependency on oil: this is the objective of the five research partners who, on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 in Doha, Qatar, signed a cooperation...
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:: 20 October, 2009
The pursuit of new medications and the medical technology devices of the future: At Fraunhofer USA's research centers, science professionals...
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:: 20 October, 2009
Diamonds, secure software, medications – at Fraunhofer USA, the research portfolio covers a vast array of topics. Exactly 15 years ago, Germany's...
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:: 20 October, 2009
Keeping track of time is one of the brain's most important tasks. As the brain processes the flood of sights and sounds it encounters, it must also...
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:: 20 October, 2009
The October issue of Glamour Magazine has named 2009 Truman Scholar Tish Scolnik as one of their Top 10 College Women, recognizing her work on...
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:: 20 October, 2009
At last Friday's Energy Night at the MIT Museum, Dr. Keith Collins described his approach to fighting global warming with all the gusto of a really...
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:: 20 October, 2009
Not that long ago – the blink of a geologic eye – global temperatures were so warm that ice on Greenland could have been hard to come by. Today,...
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:: 20 October, 2009
Powerful tropical cyclones have developed recently on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. In the western Pacific Super Typhoon Lupit is threatening...
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:: 19 October, 2009
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual"...
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