News tagged with climbing equipment
Keeping children safe: Rethinking design
Injury is the leading cause of death for children over the age of 1 in industrialized countries and improving the safety of the manmade (built) environment will benefit children's health, according to an article in CMAJ (Canad ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Commercial spacecraft speeds toward space station
(AP) -- Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2012 |
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Japan readies for 'ring' solar eclipse
Special darkened glasses were selling out in Japan on Friday as anticipation built ahead of a "ring" solar eclipse above one of the most densely populated parts of the planet.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2012 |
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Meet Kimberly Casey: Studying how debris influences glaciers
Kimberly Casey is a glaciologist who spends a fair amount of time in the office analyzing satellite data. But when she talks about her fieldwork on remote glaciers, one suspects she could do pretty well in a triathlon, too. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 02, 2012 |
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No bumps in the road for DARPA's robotic suspension system (w/ video)
The use of ground robots in military explosive-ordinance-disposal missions already saves many lives and prevents thousands of other casualties. If the current limitations on mobility and manipulation capabilities of robots ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Robot assembles truss structures autonomously
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like something straight out of "Star Wars," armies of robots could nimbly be crawling up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don't have to.
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Microsoft sees future in Windows 8 amid iPad rise
(AP) -- Microsoft is scrambling to preserve what's left of its kingdom. Since the company released its Windows operating system in 1985, most of the sequels have been variations on the same theme. Not that ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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O, Pioneers! (Part 1): The motes in God's eye
March 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of one of the most extraordinary spacecraft ever constructed - Pioneer 10 - the first true deep space probe. The story of the Voyager spacecraft is well ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Xbox workers threaten suicide in China labor tiff
(AP) -- Dozens of workers assembling Xbox video game consoles climbed to a factory dormitory roof, and some threatened to jump to their deaths, in a dispute over job transfers that was defused but highlights growing labor ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Deep Gulf drilling thrives 18 mos. after BP spill
(AP) -- Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean's surface than ever before.
Dec 30, 2011 |
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Protecting UA telescopes during the winter cold
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as property owners are working to protect pipes from bursting during the winter cold, a UA team is working to protect telescope observatories.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2011 |
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