US rolls out less revealing airport scanners
The US Transportation Security Administration began rolling out new airport scanner software Tuesday that produces less revealing images of travelers.
The US Transportation Security Administration began rolling out new airport scanner software Tuesday that produces less revealing images of travelers.
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Feb 01, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On Jan. 31, 2011, NASA's Cassini spacecraft passed by several of Saturn's intriguing moons, snapping images along the way.
Space Exploration
Feb 01, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more than 33,000 asteroids ...
Space Exploration
Feb 01, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Being in a warm room can make the idea of global warming seem more likely, according to researchers from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Haas School of Business at University of ...
Social Sciences
Feb 01, 2011
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Windshields that shed water so effectively that they don't need wipers. Ship hulls so slippery that they glide through the water more efficiently than ordinary hulls.
Nanomaterials
Feb 01, 2011
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Google on Tuesday began letting smartphone users check into spots on the go as the Internet star jumped into the hot location-based services arena with Facebook, Foursquare and Gowalla.
Internet
Feb 01, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a blood-borne army, immunoglobulin G belongs to a class of antibodies that binds to viruses, fungi, bacteria and other foreign particles to initiate their destruction. It does this by attaching to unique ...
Biochemistry
Feb 01, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists can now tap into a flow of new data that will help to determine exactly how Earth's ice is changing. This information from ESA's CryoSat mission is set to make a step change in our understanding ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 01, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the University of Birmingham, with colleagues at Imperial College, London, and Technical University of Denmark, have demonstrated an 'invisibility cloak' that can hide a three-dimensional ...
General Physics
Feb 01, 2011
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Russia's top military and space official launched a search Tuesday for a missing military satellite that apparently was put into the wrong orbit shortly after its launch.
Space Exploration
Feb 01, 2011
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