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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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:: 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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:: 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
Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs.
Using zinc oxide...
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:: 08 November, 2009
A government-funded start-up claims it can make ionic liquid energy storage feasible.
A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can...
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:: 08 November, 2009
About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT’s...
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:: 07 November, 2009
Standard laser devices are fast enough for measuring the size of a room, but they need to be faster for outdoor mobile applications. Researchers...
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:: 07 November, 2009
Polishing metal surfaces is a demanding but monotonous task, and it is difficult to find qualified young specialists. Polishing machines do not...
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:: 04 November, 2009
It's no bigger than a stamp packet but it has the potential to allow rapid development of a new generation of drugs and genetic engineering...
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:: 03 November, 2009
Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor...
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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 company that makes steel for bearings used in heavy trucks had a big problem. The trucks travel through harsh, perilous environments such as...
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:: 31 October, 2009
A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating...
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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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:: 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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:: 26 October, 2009
Technology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in...
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:: 24 October, 2009
New sensor facilitates measurement of internal body temperature.
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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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