Archive: 12/15/2005
Microsoft faces lawsuit from Visto
A mobile e-mail company Thursday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for misusing its proprietary technology.
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Geography professor writes first in-depth account of scheme to engineer with atom bombs
What would you think if someone told you that not so long ago, the U.S. government, led by gung-ho scientists, seriously considered exploding 300 or more atomic bombs to blast a sea-level canal in Panama? Or ...
Dec 15, 2005 |
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Spirit Studying Algonquin
This week Spirit drove to an outcrop area informally named "Algonquin." On sol 685, Spirit successfully drove for 15 meters (49 feet) and prepared for a series of robotic-arm activities planned for sol 687 to 690 at Algonquin. ...
Dec 15, 2005 |
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The Mars Journal Publishes Its First Papers
The Mars Journal, a new peer-reviewed online open-access scholarly journal, has published its first two papers. The first paper is a 4-page editorial entitled "The Mars Journal" by David A. Paige of the Dept. of Earth and ...
Dec 15, 2005 |
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New LED lighting concept unveiled
A lighting concept unveiled Wednesday at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., uses modular LED panels to allow instant room lighting changes.
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U.S. expert criticizes U.K. badger killing
A University of California-Davis scientist is criticizing the British practice of killing wild badgers to prevent tuberculosis in cattle.
Dec 15, 2005 |
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Power lines may become honey bee homes
A scientist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is proposing a novel solution to the dwindling number of U.S. honey bees.
Dec 15, 2005 |
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Prehistoric bird fossil found in China
The fossil of a previously unknown water bird that lived some 125 million years ago has been found in sandstone near Inner Mongolia in northeast China.
Dec 15, 2005 |
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First Member Of Galileo Satellite Family To Be Launched 26 December
Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, will start becoming concrete reality the day after Christmas with the launch of Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element GIOVE-A on top of a Soyuz-Fregat rocket ...
Dec 15, 2005 |
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Spanish scientists develop new crystals
Scientists working at the University of Navarra in Spain say they have developed a more efficient laser crystal.
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ESA to launch weather satellite Dec. 21
The European Space Agency says it will launch the second satellite in the Meteosat Second Generation family Dec. 21 from Kourou, French Guiana.
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Study: How stem cells become brain cells
Oregon Health and Science University researchers say they've discovered a gene that appears to control how stem cells become brain cells.
Dec 15, 2005 |
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