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Mojave Desert tests prepare for NASA Mars Roving
(Phys.org) -- Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 14, 2012 |
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Keeping older drivers on the road
A research car which monitors our concentration, stress levels and driving habits while we're sat behind the steering wheel is being used to develop new technologies to support older drivers.
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges
(PhysOrg.com) -- Civil engineering students at the University of Rhode Island will soon take to the roadways to apply what they have learned in the classroom in real-world analyses of bridges, buildings and ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Mobile lab allows researchers to study air quality, health effects
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new mobile air research laboratory will help a team of researchers led by a Michigan State University professor better understand the damaging health effects of air pollution and why certain ...
Oct 07, 2009 |
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MIT, Intel unveil new initiatives addressing 'big data'
MIT has been selected from among 55 institutions that submitted 157 proposals to host a new Intel research center that will concentrate on whats come to be called big data -- new techniques ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
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New IGZO oxide semiconductor technology may revolutionize displays
Sharp Corporation and Semiconductor Energy Laboratory have jointly developed a new oxide semiconductor (IGZO) technology with high crystallinity. This material will enable even higher resolutions, lower power consumption, ...
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Winds of change for pollution sensing
(Phys.org) -- The Great Smog of London is often upheld as a time when pollution reached appalling levels: over a four-day period in December 1952, the capital came to a standstill, cars were abandoned, airports ...
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Scientists hone in on size and environmental influence of the quantum dots used in hybrid solar cells
(Phys.org) -- Sometimes to answer big questions, you need to start small-very small. Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Chemical Imaging Initiative did just that when they analyzed cadmium ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 31, 2012 |
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Life on Mars: just add carbon and stir
The building blocks of life have been discovered on Mars ... in Martian meteorites that fell to Earth.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 29, 2012 |
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Sandia Labs technology used in Fukushima cleanup
(Phys.org) -- A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japans damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
May 29, 2012 |
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Texting made possible for the illiterate
People incapable of reading and writing will have access to text messages from now on. A system using vocal synthesis, icons and contact management allows people to send and read text messages by those normally ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 23, 2012 |
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New NASA App 2.0 Released For iPhone, iPod Touch
NASA released Monday an updated version of the free NASA App for iPhone and iPod touch. The NASA App 2.0 includes several new features and a completely redesigned user interface that improves the way people can explore and ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2012 |
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Robotic spacecraft / rover hybrids for space exploration
The big news from space exploration is that small bodies in the cosmos offer tantalizing insight about the very formation of our solar system. So what strategy can be employed to inspect these mini-worlds ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 16, 2012 |
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Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics
(Phys.org) -- Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered by researchers ...
May 15, 2012 |
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