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:: 21 November, 2009
Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf...
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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
A sensing surface developed by Microsoft researchers offers new ways to use computers.
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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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:: 17 November, 2009
Last week, as I tapped a laptop keyboard in Massachusetts, a humanoid robot whirled around a lab in California. I tapped more slowly and the robot...
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:: 17 November, 2009
"Peer-to-peer" (P2P) is synonymous with piracy and bandwidth hogging on the Internet. But now, Internet service providers and content companies are...
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:: 17 November, 2009
Batteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes can produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be...
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:: 16 November, 2009
Eleven German-French research teams headed for the starting line on October 27, 2007 in Paris. Their goal: to build bilateral collaborations and to...
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:: 16 November, 2009
Technologists advocating better security for the domain name system (DNS) have frequently predicted that the technology would be deployed in the...
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:: 16 November, 2009
Researchers in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating...
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:: 16 November, 2009
East Tennessee is now home to two of the world's three fastest computers, according to new rankings released today.
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:: 14 November, 2009
A new system for ensuring accurate election tallies, which MIT researchers helped to develop, passed its first real-world test.
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:: 13 November, 2009
Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish...
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:: 13 November, 2009
There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon...
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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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:: 12 November, 2009
Recent advances in cryptography could mean that future cloud computing services will not only be able to encrypt documents to keep them safe in the...
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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
Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional...
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:: 11 November, 2009
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of...
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:: 10 November, 2009
A new method for assembling carbon nanotubes has been used to create fibers hundreds of meters long. Individual carbon nanotubes are strong,...
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