For all their ease and convenience, there are few things more wasteful than digital cameras. They're loaded with pricy microprocessors that chew through batteries at a breakneck pace, crunching millions of numbers per second ...
Engineering
Oct 2, 2006
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Flash those pearly whites in a dazzling smile and you showcase a natural light collector mechanism hidden inside the internal structure of dentin - the hard, bone-like material that forms the main part of teeth.
Oct 2, 2006
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Working under severe time pressure, government laboratories can analyze radioactive samples fairly quickly -- in a matter of hours -- but with variable accuracy, and sometimes relaxed quality control procedures, according ...
Oct 2, 2006
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Manganese, in trace amounts, is essential to human health. Now a research team from the University of Delaware, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Hawaii and Oregon Health and Science University has discovered ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2006
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Ozone measurements made by ESA's Envisat satellite have revealed the ozone loss of 40 million tons on 2 October 2006 has exceeded the record ozone loss of about 39 million tons for 2000.
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2006
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A conference in York later this month will signal the next phase of the development of an ambitious project to revolutionise broadband communications.
Telecom
Oct 2, 2006
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A report by China's Yangtze River Water Resources Commission said water pollution in the river has worsened over the past 10 years.
Environment
Oct 2, 2006
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A U.S. scientist says human missions to Mars face technical challenges well beyond those faced during the exploration of the moon.
Space Exploration
Oct 2, 2006
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EUMETSAT has announced that on Saturday 30 September the upper composite (comprising the MetOp spacecraft, the Fregat upper stage and the Soyuz fairing) experienced a slight mechanical shock. It was then decided to interrupt ...
Space Exploration
Oct 2, 2006
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“The thing about our universe,” says David Lyth, a professor at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, “is that it is not completely uniform. This has been a bit of a puzzle to cosmologists.” He explains that ...
