Endeavour Cleared for Tuesday Landing
Mission managers announced today that Space Shuttle Endeavour is cleared for landing. The decision came after a thorough review of imagery and data collected during late inspection of the orbiter on Sunday.
Mission managers announced today that Space Shuttle Endeavour is cleared for landing. The decision came after a thorough review of imagery and data collected during late inspection of the orbiter on Sunday.
Space Exploration
Aug 20, 2007
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By creating "Teflon" versions of natural antibiotics found in frog skin, a research team led by biological chemist E. Neil Marsh has made the potential drugs better at thwarting bacterial defenses, an improvement that could ...
Aug 20, 2007
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Physicists have made the first real-time observation of low-energy solar neutrinos, providing long-sought proof of the theory regarding how these fundamental particles are produced in the sun's core.
General Physics
Aug 20, 2007
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Discarded chewing gum is the bane of town centre pavements across the UK – but imagine finding a piece that’s a jaw-dropping 5,000 years old?
Archaeology
Aug 20, 2007
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Conventional wisdom holds that environmental disasters lead Congress to toughen regulatory standards. But a new UCLA study has found that members of Congress were less likely to take pro-green positions on legislation in ...
Other
Aug 20, 2007
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Sony today announced the commercialization of "IMX021", an APS-C size (diagonal: 28.40mm/Type 1.8) 12.47 effective megapixel ultra-high speed, high image quality CMOS image sensor designed to meet the increasing requirement ...
Hardware
Aug 20, 2007
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Nuremberg’s public transport system has become more "electrified" thanks to a diesel-electric hybrid bus developed by MAN. The vehicle is equipped with drive-system technology from Siemens.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 20, 2007
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Siemens is expanding its range of biometric access authorization systems to include a hand-surface (palm) reader.
Hardware
Aug 20, 2007
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Australian orchids are engaged in an arms race, using sensory overload to seduce male insects. Macquarie University PhD student Anne Gaskett has discovered just how they do it. Her work is important to the conservation of ...
Aug 20, 2007
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Building on their successful CMOS solution for gate‑first, thermally stable, high-k dual metal gates, SEMATECH researchers have released further data that portends a new era in which future transistor scaling is dominated ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Aug 20, 2007
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