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Corn silage hybrids and seeding rates
Recent studies report that corn hybrids released in the late 2000s, especially Bt hybrids, require higher seeding rates than commercial hybrids released in the 1990s to reach maximum yields. Expectedly, corn seeding rates ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Controversial energy-generating system lacking credibility (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's been seven months since Italian physicists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi publicly demonstrated a device that they claimed could generate large amounts of excess heat through some kind of low-energy ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Oklahoma, Texas set heat records in July
(AP) -- Sweltering may have reached a new record last month, as Oklahoma racked up the country's highest monthly average temperature ever.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Microsoft paper proposes using 'cloud' servers to heat homes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has published a research paper that proposes installing servers used for cloud computing into homes and businesses, instead of in vast data centers. The idea being, that because ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Sandia National Labs completes final scan of space shuttle heat shield
Nine engineers from Sandia National Laboratories helped ensure Atlantis' safety from Mission Control at Johnson Space Center as the shuttle made its final flight, marking the end of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. For ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Shining a light on the elusive 'blackbody' of energy research
A designer metamaterial has shown it can engineer emitted "blackbody" radiation with an efficiency beyond the natural limits imposed by the material's temperature, a team of researchers led by Boston College ...
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Hot nights can compound danger from heat waves
(AP) -- The killer lurking in the shadows of the current heat wave may be hot nights.
Jul 21, 2011 |
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80 percent of world climate data are not computerized
In order to gain a better knowledge of climate variations, such as those caused by global warming, and be able to tackle them, we need to understand what happened in the recent past. This is the conclusion ...
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Weather conditions could results in cattle heat stress
Cattle producers should be aware that forecasted weather conditions could result in significant heat stress issues in cattle. The US Meat Animal Research Center predicts danger or emergency conditions through most of South ...
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Long, cramped road trips ahead for US astronauts
If you think of the shuttle as a kind of big space bus, the future for US astronauts will be a lot like squeezing into a three-seat compact car, made by Russia, for a very long road trip.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2011 |
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Last spacewalk of US shuttle era ends (Update 2)
Two US astronauts wrapped up the last spacewalk of the shuttle era Tuesday at the International Space Station, where Atlantis is docked on the final mission of the 30-year US program.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Debris may be on collision course with space lab: NASA
NASA is tracking a piece of Soviet space debris that could collide with the International Space Station, the US space agency said Sunday after the shuttle Atlantis docked on its final mission.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Atlantis docks at space station for last time
The shuttle Atlantis docked at the orbiting International Space Station for one last hitch-up Sunday, on its final space voyage before the entire 30-year US shuttle program shuts down for good.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2011 |
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Atlantis to dock with space station on final flight
The crew of Atlantis prepared to link up with the International Space Station Sunday as part of the final mission of the US space shuttle program.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2011 |
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Atlantis' 1st full day in orbit nearly perfect
(AP) -- The space shuttle Atlantis hasn't performed like a ship ready for retirement. The first full day of the final flight of the aging space shuttle fleet - the most complicated machines ever built - was ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 09, 2011 |
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