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:: 19 November, 2009
The MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally. MIRAS will map soil...
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:: 18 November, 2009
MIT research points to a much more efficient way of harvesting electrical power from what would otherwise be wasted heat.
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:: 13 November, 2009
Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle...
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:: 12 November, 2009
A proposed hub for connecting the three independent electricity grids that span the continental United States could make it easier to ramp up...
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:: 11 November, 2009
In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the...
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:: 11 November, 2009
The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and...
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:: 11 November, 2009
Max Planck chemists are using a simple method to convert methane to methanol - something that has the potential to exploit previously unused...
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:: 05 November, 2009
NOAA scientists took off Saturday on the second phase of a mission that, when complete, will provide a detailed view of how carbon dioxide and...
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:: 31 October, 2009
MIT engineer Joel Dawson and colleagues built a handheld probe that could help doctors monitor muscle atrophy in patients with Lou Gehrig's Disease...
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:: 31 October, 2009
A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable...
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:: 29 October, 2009
Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigator. GPS satellites send signals...
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:: 29 October, 2009
Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within...
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:: 29 October, 2009
A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning (2 November 2009) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in...
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:: 29 October, 2009
Does your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a...
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:: 28 October, 2009
Is the Earth the only place in our Solar System on which living organisms exist? Is there, for example, life on Mars? The goal of the European...
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:: 26 October, 2009
Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it’s hot in...
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:: 24 October, 2009
New sensor facilitates measurement of internal body temperature.
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:: 24 October, 2009
Aerospace, automotive and airplane construction count on lightweight construction. But to make sure that lightening the load does not come at the...
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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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:: 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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