ESA acquires Japanese ALOS satellite data
The Paris-based European Space Agency has, for the first time, acquired and processed images sent by Japan's four-ton Earth observation satellite.
The Paris-based European Space Agency has, for the first time, acquired and processed images sent by Japan's four-ton Earth observation satellite.
Space Exploration
May 17, 2006
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving a "living fossil plant" that has survived on Earth for 130 million years suggests its novel reproductive structure may be a "missing link" between flowering plants and ...
May 17, 2006
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For many, sea-level rise is a remote and distant threat faced by people like the residents of the Tuvalu Islands in the South Pacific, where the highest point of land is only 5 meters (15 feet) above sea level and tidal floods ...
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2006
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As U.S. legislators continue to debate whether the current system of providing Internet access should be changed, all agree that the development of the World Wide Web has revolutionized telecommunications and technology in ...
Telecom
May 17, 2006
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A magnitude 6.5 earthquake could severely damage the San Francisco Bay Delta levee system and cut off vital water supplies for millions of Californians, according to findings presented by a panel of experts at a May 10 press ...
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2006
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U.S. Cable companies are stepping up efforts to prepare for natural disasters and other emergencies, an industry association said.
Telecom
May 17, 2006
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British scientists say pile driving and industrial noise may be adversely affecting dolphin behavior, communication and breeding.
May 17, 2006
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XM Satellite Radio is prepared to fight a lawsuit from the Recording Industry Association of America regarding the recording of satellite radio onto electronic devices.
Business
May 17, 2006
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For the first time, Stanford researchers have used novel statistical computer modeling to simulate demographic processes affecting the population of Tuscany over a 2,500-year time span. Rigorous tests used by the researchers ...
Archaeology
May 17, 2006
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A University of Alberta (Canada) anthropologist is heading up an international research team that will investigate why an entire Siberian culture of hunter-gatherers vanished between 7000 and 6000 BC.
Archaeology
May 17, 2006
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