Every now and then I go looking for a free aerial view of my home. It's amazing what's available through the internet now, totally free. Thanks to commercial Earth observation satellites, and internet tools that make these ...
Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2012
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Researchers from A*STAR IME have developed an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that uses only 400 nW, the lowest power consumption reported to date amongst today’s standard processing technology.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Aug 14, 2012
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Scientists taking advantage of the versatility and new capabilities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, have observed first ...
General Physics
Aug 14, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Until recent decades the Atlantic Rainforest covered a large area of today’s Brazil from Amazonas to present-day Argentina. In the 1970s, after years of deforestation, this rain forest was almost completely ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- In the eye, the retina is the light sensitive tissue that lines its inner surface; packed with ganglion neurons, its job is to convert incoming information to something that the brain can understand. In some ...
Malaysian NGOs, well-known bloggers and opposition politicians on Tuesday staged a one-day "Internet blackout" to protest a legal amendment that they say threatens free expression on the Web.
Internet
Aug 14, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Researchers in Chile, led by Pablo Marqueta, an ecologist with Universidad Católica de Chile have come up with a new theory to explain why a civilization that thrived some seven thousand years ago suddenly ...
Nutrient pollution, one of the greatest threats to our freshwater resources, is responsible for the algal blooms that blanket our lakes and waterways in summer months. Large blooms of cyanobacteria ('blue green algae') can ...
Environment
Aug 14, 2012
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Research confirms regional — not global — climate change in New Zealand and European glaciers during the preindustrial Holocene
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2012
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A recent short training session for community rangers conducted by Fauna & Flora International (FFI) in the Jantho Wildlife Reserve, Aceh, produced a surprise result.
Plants & Animals
Aug 14, 2012
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