Archive: 04/24/2006
Nano machine switches between biological and silicon worlds
Scientists have created a molecular switch that could play a key role in thousands of nanotech applications. The Mol-Switch project successfully developed a demonstrator to prove the principle, despite deep ...
Apr 24, 2006 |
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Spirit Studies New Terrain At Its Winter Haven
After some anxious days earlier this month, when mission controllers worried about Spirit's prospects for continued operations through the Martian winter, they have now pronounced the rover hobbled but healthy. ...
Apr 24, 2006 |
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Step To Determine Future Of Indian Space Program
Sometime next year, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will carry a payload to 800 km above the earths' surface, which will determine the future missions of the Indian space programme. The rocket will put into orbit a ...
Apr 24, 2006 |
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AFRL Proves Feasibility Of Plasma Actuators
The Air Force Research Laboratory is laying the groundwork to develop revolutionary hypersonic aerospace vehicles. AFRL is examining the feasibility of replacing traditional mechanical actuators, which move to control an ...
Apr 24, 2006 |
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Giant telescope sees back in time
Scientists in South Africa are using the largest optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere to see 13 billion years back in time.
Apr 24, 2006 |
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Climate change effects seen in sugar maple
In Ohio and New England, and through Canada, the maple sugaring season starts and ends earlier than a generation ago -- a sign of warming climate trends.
Apr 24, 2006 |
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