News tagged with grand design
University has grand designs to build a house of straw (w/ Video)
Could straw houses be the buildings of the future? That's what researchers at the University of Bath will be testing this summer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp cladding ...
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Turning DNA into a hard drive
Silicon-based computers are fine for typing term papers and surfing the Web, but scientists want to make devices that can work on a far smaller scale, recording data within individual cells. One way to do that is to create ...
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Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship
(AP) -- Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 26, 2012 |
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Everyone knows it's windy . . .
... And now they have the data to prove it. The middle of Lake Michigan is a vast, untapped reservoir of wind energy. The next step will be to find out if it can be harvested economically without harming ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 25, 2012 |
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Top 10 new species list draws attention to diverse biosphere
The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of scientists from around the world announced their picks for the top 10 new species described in 2011. This ...
May 23, 2012 |
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19th-century iPhone app
Modern technology has allowed us to communicate in ways that would have been unfathomable to Victorian-age English poets. Yet Alfred Tennyson, Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe — among others — would ...
May 15, 2012 |
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Take-Two delays 'BioShock Infinite' to February
(AP) -- Take-Two has delayed the release of "BioShock Infinite," an eagerly awaited shooter game set in 1912.
May 09, 2012 |
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For ASU student group, good bikes do grow on trees
(Phys.org) -- Imagine being unable to attend work or school, simply because mobility and rugged terrain prohibits you from leaving your front door. A student group, BooGood Bicycles, is seeking to find an ...
May 08, 2012 |
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Student-devised process would prep Chinese shale gas for sale
A team of Rice University students accepted a challenge to turn shale gas produced in China into a range of useful, profitable and environmentally friendly products and did so in a cost-effective manner.
Apr 30, 2012 |
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Can behavior be controlled by genes? The case of honeybee work assignments
What worker bees do depends on how old they are. A worker a few days old will become a nurse bee that devotes herself to feeding larvae (brood), secreting beeswax to seal the cells that contain brood and attending ...
Apr 17, 2012 |
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First-ever model simulation of the structuring of the observable universe
A team of researchers from the Laboratoire Univers et Theorie (France) coordinated by Jean-Michel Alimi has performed the first-ever computer model simulation of the structuring of the entire observable universe, ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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