Pound for pound, carbon nanotubes are stronger and lighter than steel, but unlike other materials, the miniscule cylinders of carbon – which are no wider than a strand of DNA – remain remarkably robust even when chunks of ...
General Physics
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HIV may one day be able to be filtered from human blood saving the lives of millions of people, thanks to a world-first nano-membrane innovation by Queensland University of Technology scientists.
Bio & Medicine
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ESA mission controllers have confirmed Rosetta is on track for a critical 250-km Mars swingby on 25 February. Engineers have started final preparations for the delicate operation, which includes an eclipse, a signal blackout, ...
Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2007
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Scientific and indigenous knowledge must join together to better manage disappearing marine resources in developing countries, such as shark, trochus, and sea cucumber stocks on the islands to Australia’s north.
Environment
Feb 15, 2007
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Nathan Ball, graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT, won this year's $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for invention of a device that makes the fantasy of leaping tall buildings in a single bound come close to ...
Engineering
Feb 15, 2007
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There’s no such thing as picky grizzly bears—they’ll eat almost anything they can find. A new University of Alberta study that tracked food habits of the Alberta grizzly bear living in the foothills sheds some light on the ...
Feb 15, 2007
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An experiment called HEX2 that consisted of four NASA suborbital sounding rockets, launched from Poker Flat Research Range during an aurora display over northern Alaska this morning. Each rocket emitted vapor trails in an ...
Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2007
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