Concerned Scientists criticize nuke plant
The Union of Concerned Scientists is upset over U.S. plans to build a plutonium processing plant without consulting the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Aug 1, 2007
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Shuttle crew includes Challenger alternate
A woman scheduled to be the first schoolteacher launched into space by the United States was nearly a passenger on the ill-fated Challenger flight in 1986.
Space Exploration
Aug 1, 2007
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Exotic foods becoming commonplace
Food trend experts predict exotic and extreme foods such as yogurt with rose petals and orange blossoms will become more common on consumer's plates.
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Aug 1, 2007
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Purdue 'milestone' a step toward advanced sensors, communications
Engineers at Purdue University have shown how to finely control the spectral properties of ultrafast light pulses, a step toward creating advanced sensors, more powerful communications technologies and more precise laboratory ...
General Physics
Aug 1, 2007
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Typhoon Usagi Gathers Strength, Heads for Japan
Typhoon Usagi continues to gather strength in the West Pacific as it continues on a course for southern Japan.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2007
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Concern Increasing About Opportunity Rover
Rover engineers are growing increasingly concerned about the temperature of vital electronics on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity while the rover stays nearly inactive due to a series of dust storms that has lasted ...
Space Exploration
Aug 1, 2007
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Mobile radio – look as you listen?
Eyes can listen too: Researchers have developed a new audio service for cell phone radios in which the sound is accompanied with matching images – such as CD covers or concert photos. Sound and image take up only a quarter ...
Engineering
Aug 1, 2007
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Electricity from body heat
Making calls from a cell phone with no battery, using just the warmth of your hand? Perhaps that’s no more than a pipe dream right now. But new circuits are already making it possible to harness body heat for generating ...
Engineering
Aug 1, 2007
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Automation of Nanotech Manufacturing May Be Ahead
In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features on the order ...
Nanophysics
Aug 1, 2007
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Management consultants are often 'more project workers than ideas people'
The popular impression that management consultants are key to spreading new ideas in organisations is exaggerated and misleading, according to a unique fly-on-the-wall study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council ...
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Aug 1, 2007
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