Archive: 09/26/2005
Nippon TV to start Internet broadcast
Japanese broadcaster Nippon Television said Monday it will start up a division geared solely to broadcast programs on the Internet.
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Mapping the Risks of Hurricane Disasters
The Natural Disaster Hotspots report released earlier this year showed that the U.S. Gulf Coast is among the world's most at-risk regions in terms of human mortality and economic loss due to storms like Katrina ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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ESA selects targets for asteroid-deflecting mission Don Quijote
Based on the recommendations of asteroid experts, ESA has selected two target asteroids for its Near-Earth Object deflecting mission, Don Quijote.
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Keep Cool to Reduce Friction,” Suggests a New Study of Nanoscale Water Condensation
“Keep cool to reduce friction” might be the advice given to designers of nanoscale machinery by researchers who have just completed a study of factors influencing the formation of “water bridges” – capillary connections that ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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First Modernized GPS Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Launched
The U.S. Air Force has launched, and safely inserted into orbit, the first modernized Global Positioning System satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, aboard a Delta II rocket on Sept. 25, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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'Smart Concrete' Could Improve Levees
The failure of levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina points out the need for new technologies to strengthen levees and monitor their reliability, according to Deborah D. L. Chung, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo materials ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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CryoSat Launch Will Be Blast From The Cold War Past
CryoSat's 8 October flight atop its Rockot launcher will be of historical significance in more ways than one. In a striking juxtaposition of new and old, the ESA ice satellite mated to a newly-finished Breeze-KM upper stage ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Squeezing out dune plants
Researchers from Texas A&M University created a model to better understand the impacts of development and coastal erosion on plant communities, including plants that grow in the ever-shrinking strip of habitat between land ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Envisat and ERS-2 reveal hidden side of Hurricane Rita (update)
As Hurricane Rita entered the Gulf of Mexico, ESA's Envisat satellite's radar was able to pierce through swirling clouds to directly show how the storm churns the sea surface. This image has then been used ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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MERIS monitoring tracks planetary photosynthesis levels
Daily multispectral observations from Envisat's MERIS sensor are being combined with a sophisticated processing algorithm and powerful Grid computing to reveal global photosynthesis activity on land. This permits researchers ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Desert Pathfinder at Work
Sub-millimetre APEX telescope inaugurated at Chajnantor. The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) project celebrates the inauguration of its outstanding 12-m telescope, located on the 5100 m high Chajnantor plateau in the Ata ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Reflections In The World's Largest Space Mirror
Much of our Universe has long remained invisible. Our eyes perceive only a fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. Seeing at infrared wavelengths, for instance, allows astronomers to explore hidden celestial objects and ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Researchers Explore Mystery of Hurricane Formation
All Atlantic hurricanes, no matter how grand they may become, begin the same. Each starts as a small disturbance in the atmosphere above equatorial Africa. These disturbances, called tropical waves, head west and, if conditions ...
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Solar Cars Driving Towards A Hydrogen Future
Competitors in this week's Panasonic World Solar Challenge will be demonstrating some of the fundamental technical innovations driving us towards the hydrogen economy, according to event partner, CSIRO.
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