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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
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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:: 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
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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:: 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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:: 09 November, 2009
Environmental mission investigates fundamentals of water cycle and climate change.
The SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) satellite was...
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:: 09 November, 2009
Cooling strontium could lead to increasingly precise clocks, quantum computers and ultracold chemistry.
Two independent teams have, for the...
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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
CMOS image sensors in special cameras – as used for driver assistance systems – mostly only provide monochrome images and have a limited...
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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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:: 05 November, 2009
Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that...
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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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:: 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
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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