Archive: 11/01/2005
Russia, China Could Create Spacecraft To Explore Mars, The Moon
Russia and China are considering jointly creating spacecraft to explore Mars and the Moon, a senior official of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Monday, reports RIA Novosti.
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Mt. St. Helens Recovery Slowed by Caterpillar
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, it destroyed every living thing around it. Gas, ash and rock, heated to over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, sterilized a 60-kilometer square area, leaving a gray lunar-looking ...
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Physicist sees terahertz imaging as ultimate defense against terrorism
John Federici, PhD, professor, department of physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and other physicists at NJIT recently received a U.S. Patent for a Teraherz imaging system and method. Since 1995, Terahertz ...
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Look ma, no hands!
A few years ago scientists managed to wire a monkey’s brain to a robotic arm. The monkey learned to manipulate the arm simply by thinking. This year, John Donoghue at Brown University has managed to do the same ...
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Titan Weather: Cloudy Every 15 Years
About two years ago, before the Huygens probe arrived at Titan, Henry Roe, a graduate student I was working with at Berkeley, discovered clouds on Titan. He was the first person to get images of what he thought ...
Nov 01, 2005 |
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India To Launch Exclusive Satellite To Track Natural Disasters
In the wake of the recent earthquake which caused havoc in India and Pakistan, killing thousands of people, the Government of India has decided to launch an exclusive satellite that can track natural disasters, a top official ...
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World semiconductor sales up 5 percent
World semiconductor sales grew more than 5 percent in September as demand remained robust and driven by brisk markets for cell phones and personal computers.
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Russia To Launch Satellite For World Space Observatory
Russia is planning to build and put into orbit a satellite that will lay the foundation for the creation of the World Space Observatory (WSO), a project to explore deep space in the ultraviolet spectrum by 2008, a Russian ...
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Baby tooth DNA solves mystery death
Australian scientists have used a keepsake baby tooth to solve the mystery of the death of a couple's 7-year-old daughter, 14 years after she died.
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Study: High mortality rats ate GM food
A recent Russian study says 55.6 percent of the offspring of female rats fed genetically engineered soy flour died within three weeks.
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Study: How bees handle complex colors
University College London scientists say learning how bumblebees discern flower colors under multiple lighting conditions may help in robotic development.
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Good writing style: Plain and simple
Princeton University researchers say they've found the secret of impressive writing: Keep it plain and simple.
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Teeth, rainfall linked to primate survival
U.S. and Finnish scientists say primates, except for humans, can reproduce into old age under certain conditions.
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