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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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:: 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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:: 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
East Tennessee is now home to two of the world's three fastest computers, according to new rankings released today.
The Top500 list of 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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:: 08 November, 2009
Dampening a light-sensing reaction in the eye might slow a common cause of blindness.
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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
Solar wafers for use in the production of photovoltaic systems are extremely sensitive. In a test and demonstration center research is being...
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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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:: 07 November, 2009
The manufacture of parts by compaction and sintering involves filling a die with metal powder. Research scientists have simulated this process...
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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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:: 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
You may update your antivirus software religiously, immediately download all new Windows security patches, and refuse to click any e-mail links...
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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
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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:: 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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:: 25 October, 2009
In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about...
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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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:: 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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