13/08/2004

Global Warming Causes More Bad Air Days

While researchers at Columbia's New York Climate and Health Project (NYCHP) were investigating the health impacts of climate change in the New York metropolitan region, they were simultaneously collaborating on a national ...

Energy - More bang for the buck

Spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors could be minimized and burn-up potentially doubled if Gamma Engineering's new silicon carbide-based cladding proves viable. Conventional cladding, the tubing that contains the enriched ...

Transmission - Grains of insight into the grid

The way growing piles of sand behave -- with bursts of energy that result in large and small avalanches -- has served as a model for fusion researchers seeking insight into the way magnetically confined plasmas behave in ...

Kodak Sells Remote Sensing Systems to ITT Industries

- ITT Industries' new Space Systems Division well positioned to address opportunities available in $6 billion science, government and commercial remote sensing markets - RSS is ITT's third strategic acquisition in 2004, ...

Hubble Captures a Celestial Geode

In this unusual image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode -- a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from a hot young star. Real geodes ...

Portable D-Link Wireless Pocket Router/AP Smaller than a PDA

D-Link, the global leader in consumer network connectivity, today announced the D-Link Wireless Pocket Router/AP, a portable wireless networking solution for business travelers wanting to access and share hotel Internet connections, ...

Nanotechnology of carbon and related materials

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS A OCTOBER ISSUE Nanotechnology of carbon and related materials - a theme issue compiled and edited by Mauricio Terrones and Humberton Terrones This century has started with an increasing interest ...

Mars Software Honored by NASA

NASA has selected a data visualization and simulation software package used by Mars rovers and landers, and a software package that can be used in aerospace and industrial flow fluid applications, as the "best of the best" ...

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