The skies off the Hawaiian island of Kauai will be a stand-in for Mars as NASA prepares to launch a saucer-shaped vehicle in an experimental flight designed to land heavy loads on the red planet.
Space Exploration
Jun 1, 2014
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University of Pittsburgh researchers have become the first to detect a fundamental particle of light-matter interaction in metals, the exciton. The team will publish its work online June 1 in Nature Physics.
General Physics
Jun 1, 2014
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Astrophysicists have established that cosmic turbulence could have amplified magnetic fields to the strengths observed in interstellar space.
General Physics
Jun 1, 2014
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Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have developed a software based on the discovery of some algorithms that enable the identification of each individual, therefore allowing their tracking within ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2014
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Combining black and white graphene can change the electronic properties of the one-atom thick materials, University of Manchester researchers have found.
Nanophysics
Jun 1, 2014
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Asia's largest tech trade show will be a battleground for smart innovations when it kicks off in Taiwan Tuesday—from car systems which warn when you are driving badly to a toothbrush-style camera that films the user's teeth.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 1, 2014
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Apple on Monday kicks off its developers conference, where the focus will be on software in iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macintosh computers with scant hope for the next big thing.
Software
Jun 1, 2014
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Rising consumer interest in healthy eating and animal welfare is beginning to scramble the US egg business.
Other
Jun 1, 2014
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NASA demonstrated that it can land an unmanned spacecraft on a rugged planetary surface in the pitch dark in a May 28, 2014 free-flight test of the Morpheus prototype lander and Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology, ...
Space Exploration
Jun 1, 2014
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Too isolated and with few inhabitants, the tiny village of Loewenstedt in northern Germany is simply too small to show up on the radars of national Internet operators. So the villagers took their digital fate into their own ...
Telecom
Jun 1, 2014
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