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Sri Lankan elephant numbers are 'healthy': survey

Sri Lanka's elephant population remains healthy despite decades of fighting between government and rebel forces, the first survey since the end of the nation's bloody civil war showed Friday.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

System developed to detect plastic anti-personnel mines

A team of European researchers has devised a method for locating plastic anti-personnel mines, which are manufactured to avoid detection by metal detectors. The technique involves analysing the temperature ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Unmanned vessel could soon be working for Navy

Technology that sent unmanned aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan soon could be steering unstaffed naval boats for such dangerous tasks as minesweeping, submarine detection, intelligence gathering and approaching ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

First-ever use of airborne resistivity system in Antarctica allows researchers to look beneath surface in untapped terri

(PhysOrg.com) -- National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers have successfully tested equipment to map the hidden distribution of groundwater and ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region for the first ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

IBM attacks the complexity of security with identity intelligence

IBM announced a new identity intelligence breakthrough designed in IBM labs to provide corporations with a far more sophisticated approach to managing the information employees can access. 

Technology / Software

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers seek ways to beef up military armor

It was a simple act, really, one that Ledjan Qato performed dozens of times in the corner of a spacious engineering lab at Villanova University.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gemini-Scout robot likely to reach trapped miners ahead of rescuers

In the first moments after a mining accident, first responders work against the clock to assess the situation and save the miners. But countless dangers lurk: poisonous gases, flooded tunnels, explosive ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cyberattacks also targeted Gmail rivals: Trend Micro

Internet security firm Trend Micro warned on Friday that cyber attackers have attempted to infiltrate Web-based email services run by Microsoft and Yahoo! as well as Google.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Renewables could bring job boon to Poland: Greenpeace

An ambitious switch from fossil fuels to green energy could generate up to 350,000 new jobs by 2020 in the Poland, the European Union's most coal-dependent member, Greenpeace said Friday in Warsaw.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

CFO survey: Outlook rosier, but inflation a worry

Chief financial officers in the U.S. have a more optimistic outlook about the economy, with robust growth expected in earnings and capital spending. Overall employment is expected to grow slowly, though some job categories ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Student innovator uses sound waves, T-rays for safer detection of bombs

Benjamin Clough is dedicated to making the world a safer place for emergency first responders, police and military personnel, chemical plant employees, and many others. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Space telescope's beryllium mirrors

There are heavy metal videos, and now there's a "Not so heavy metal video." This one isn't about music however, it's about beryllium, the primary ingredient in making state-of-the-art mirrors for the next ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2


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