New game teaches energy conservation
U.S. engineers have designed a board game that teaches middle school children how their energy choices directly impact energy conservation.
U.S. engineers have designed a board game that teaches middle school children how their energy choices directly impact energy conservation.
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A team led by a South Korean scientist said it would soon attempt to perform the world's first cloning of a monkey.
Dec 20, 2006
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It is well known that animals use song as a way of attracting mates, but researchers have found that gibbons have developed an unusual way of scaring off predators – by singing to them.
Dec 20, 2006
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What’s cleaner than coal, as renewable as solar energy and as ingenious as any of the cutting-edge alternative energy sources now being proposed for cars? The answer is microbe power, and if a USC team’s efforts to harness ...
Dec 20, 2006
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The holidays just wouldn't be the same without the decorations. From a single wreath or child's picture of Santa taped to a window, to displays so elaborate that they can almost be seen from outer space, the festive season ...
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Dec 20, 2006
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NASA's planned mission to the moon won't lift off for more than seven years, but student engineers at Texas A&M University are already designing the systems that could get it safely back to the ground.
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2006
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The STS-116 crew is conducting a final inspection of Space Shuttle Discovery’s heat shield today and preparing for landing.
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2006
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Researchers have discovered two genes that guide land plants to develop microscopic pores that they can open and close as if each pore was a tiny mouth. Plants wouldn't have been able to move from water to land 400 million ...
Dec 20, 2006
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Angels have an important role at Christmas, as part of the nativity story or just appearing on top of a Christmas tree. However they were nearly swept from our culture in a purge of Catholic practices and symbols by zealous ...
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Dec 20, 2006
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In cooperation with Micram, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) and Eindhoven Technical University, Siemens has successfully tested the network of the future. This involved the 100% electrical ...
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