(Phys.org)—Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp's ...
Space Exploration
Jan 16, 2013
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Britain's media regulator fined Playboy 100,000 pounds ($160,000, 121,000 euros) on Wednesday for its "reckless" failure to prevent children from accessing pornography.
Internet
Jan 16, 2013
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NASA is teaming up with the European Space Agency to get astronauts beyond Earth's orbit.
Space Exploration
Jan 16, 2013
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Marginal lands – those unsuited for food crops – can serve as prime real estate for meeting the nation's alternative energy production goals.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 16, 2013
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Would women rather "pop the question?" Apparently not. With marriage proposals in the air around the new year, researchers at UC Santa Cruz report that both women and men tend to hold traditional views when it comes to marriage ...
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2013
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(Phys.org)—An assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering is using the teeth of a marine snail found off the coast of California to create less costly and more efficient ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 16, 2013
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Researchers have discovered a social chromosome in the highly invasive fire ant that helps to explain why some colonies allow for more than one queen ant, and could offer new solutions for dealing with this pest.
Biotechnology
Jan 16, 2013
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Fashionable people may turn up their noses at jute—the cheap fiber used to make burlap, gunny sacks, twine and other common products—but new research is enhancing jute's appeal as an inexpensive, sustainable reinforcement ...
Materials Science
Jan 16, 2013
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Scientists are reporting development of the first practical way to make large amounts of a promising new anti-cancer substance that kills cancer cells differently than existing medicines. Their article on synthesis of the ...
Biochemistry
Jan 16, 2013
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The 2013 outlook for the global chemical industry—a $3 trillion enterprise that impacts virtually every other sector of the economy—is the topic of the cover story in this week's edition of Chemical & Engineering News. ...
Other
Jan 16, 2013
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