News tagged with science institute
Famed US alien seeker shifts gaze back to Earth
After decades spent scanning the heavens for signs of life elsewhere in the cosmos, astronomer Jill Tarter is stepping back, and letting a colleague take charge of the quest.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2012 |
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Individual typing style gives key to user authentication
Your typing style is as individual as your fingerprints. Being able to use typing style to identify a change in users could be a vital security and forensic support for organisations such as banks, the military ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 16, 2012 |
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Korean connection makes an 8,000-km telescope
Australian and Korean radio telescopes have been linked for the first time, forming a system that acts as a telescope 8000 km across.Australian and Korean radio telescopes have been linked together for the first time, forming ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Director James Cameron to take record-setting plunge
"Titanic" director James Cameron could dive as early as this weekend to the deepest place on Earth, further than any other human has on a solo mission, so long as the weather cooperates.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2012 |
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Student-designed robots take on March Madness
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional FIRST (For Inspiration and ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Space Image: Beside a giant
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks small here, pictured to the right of the gas giant in this Cassini spacecraft view.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Space image: Dione flyby
Saturn's moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this Cassini image captured during the spacecraft's Dec. 12, 2011, flyby of Dione.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2012 |
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States reduce funding for research universities
States reduced per-student funding for major public research universities by a fifth during the past decade, while foreign competitors invested heavily to challenge the United States' once dominant global position in science, ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Space Image: Welcome disruption
(PhysOrg.com) -- The line of Saturn's rings disrupts the Cassini spacecraft's view of the moons Tethys and Titan.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Nitrogen from humans pollutes remote lakes for more than a century
Nitrogen derived from human activities has polluted lakes throughout the Northern Hemisphere for more than a century and the fingerprint of these changes is evident even in remote lakes located thousands of ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Fish follow the rules to school
The rules of school are simple: it is all about watching the kid nearest to you and making sure you do what they do. Researchers at the mathematics department at Uppsala University, together with biologists at Sydney University ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Scientists search for moons around asteroids
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people know that some planets have moons but would be surprised to know that some asteroids do, too. According to Joshua Emery, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus shows off for Cassini
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets of water vapor and ice. At its closest approach, the spacecraft flew approximately ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Cassini presents Saturn moon quintet
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the artistry of a magazine cover shoot, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this portrait of five of Saturn's moons poised along the planet's rings.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Virginia Tech mechanical engineers win measurement science best paper award
For the second consecutive year, members of Virginia Tech's Advanced Experimental Thermofluid Engineering Research (AEThER) Laboratory in mechanical engineering, directed by professor Pavlos P. Vlachos, professor ...
May 31, 2011 |
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