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:: 12 August, 2008
Physicists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva are starting the week with a spring in their steps, having successfully injected the first protons into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the weekend. The test saw protons travelling 3 km through...
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:: 12 August, 2008
Philippe Grenier, Peter Kim, Silke Nelson, Veronique Ziegler and Chris West are all breathing a sigh of relief after four months of exhausting analysis and peer review. This analysis group within the larger BABAR collaboration is celebrating last...
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:: 10 August, 2008
Earth observation satellite data have never been in more demand than today as missions have demonstrated their ability to enable better understanding and improved management of the Earth and its environment.
ESA is meeting this demand by...
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:: 10 August, 2008
European particle physics laboratory CERN says it will fire up the massive particle accelerator on 10 September, hoping that it could throw light on the origins of the universe.
The so-called Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the greatest...
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:: 08 August, 2008
Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy.
Rosetta started the optical navigation...
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:: 08 August, 2008
An international team of researchers at the High Energy Accelerator Research organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan, the "Belle collaboration"*1, has announced the discovery of three new exotic sub-atomic particles, labeled as Z_1, Z_2 and Y_b. The...
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:: 08 August, 2008
The original cross-platform video game about video games, Reset Generation by Nokia Games Publishing, is now available on N-Gage. The objective is simple - rescue the princess. Players begin by choosing a hero from ten designs by celebrity...
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:: 08 August, 2008
TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) from Kolkata, India to establish a technology, research and trade...
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:: 02 August, 2008
In November 2008, the ministers responsible for space activities in ESA's member states and Canada will gather in The Hague to set the course of Europe’s space programme over the period ahead. They will be invited to endorse the next stages in a...
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:: 02 August, 2008
Nokia Growth Partners, a global private equity and venture capital management firm, today announced an additional commitment of USD 150 million from Nokia, increasing funds under management for direct investments to USD 250 million. Nokia began...
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:: 28 July, 2008
Stanford's famed high-energy physics laboratory is in a tussle with the U.S. Department of Energy over naming rights to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, better known as SLAC.
The Energy Department, which pays SLAC's annual $300 million...
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:: 28 July, 2008
Jay Kumar Sundararajan, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT, was named one of four students nationwide to be honored by the Marconi Society as a Young Scholar...
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:: 28 July, 2008
South Africa has reviewed and removed import duties on key inputs for manufacturers, as it seeks to boost the industry's competitiveness by reducing production costs, President Thabo Mbeki said.
Addressing the media on the outcomes of the...
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:: 27 July, 2008
Construction of the Linac Coherent Lights Source (LCLS) continues at a rapid pace. Since the completion of tunneling earlier this year, crews have finished out the Far Experimental Hall and X-ray Tunnel, installed utility systems in the Central...
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:: 27 July, 2008
Launching in just two months' time, GOCE – now fully reconfigured for launch in September, is currently being prepared for shipment on 29 July 2008 from ESA's test facilities in the Netherlands to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
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:: 27 July, 2008
A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than 50 000 stars and is adding significantly to our...
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:: 26 July, 2008
While the lab was passed over last year as the site for the nation’s Deep Underground Science and Education Lab, or DUSEL, continuing delays at the planned DUSEL site in South Dakota have left Soudan as the only operating high energy physics lab...
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:: 26 July, 2008
Thanks to mobile devices' increasing availability and continuing accessibility for professional users, Latin American users are joining the mobility wave prevailing in developed markets.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) - With a 52% service revenue...
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:: 24 July, 2008
Nokia and Qualcomm announced that they have entered into a new agreement covering various standards including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMax, LTE and other technologies. The agreement will result in settlement of all litigation between...
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:: 24 July, 2008
On late Saturday afternoon July 19, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing produced for the first time collisions in the upgraded BEPC-II electron positron collider that were observed in its...
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