Controversy surrounds British water plant
Critics are reportedly increasing their opposition to the construction of Britain's first plant designed to turn salt water into drinking water.
Critics are reportedly increasing their opposition to the construction of Britain's first plant designed to turn salt water into drinking water.
Environment
May 23, 2006
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Nike unveiled Tuesday the Air Zoom Moire -- footwear that connects to an iPod Nano through the wireless Nike(plus)iPod Sport Kit.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 23, 2006
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Samsung Electronics will release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD). This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing application ...
Hardware
May 23, 2006
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Intel today disclosed record breaking results on 20 key dual-processor (DP) server and workstation benchmarks. The first processor due to launch based on the new Intel Core microarchitecture — the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor ...
Hardware
May 23, 2006
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University of Arkansas researchers have shown that methane-producing microorganisms can survive for up to 25 days without water, which might make such creatures even more likely candidates for the type of life that could ...
May 23, 2006
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Long before David Beaty became associate Chief Scientist for NASA's Mars Program, he was a prospector. Beaty spent 10 years surveying remote parts of Earth for precious metals and another 12 years hunting for oil. And this ...
Space Exploration
May 23, 2006
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By physically compressing a silicon waveguide – and thus allowing variations in the way light travels through the material – scientists have discovered a key to creating a silicon electro-optic modulator. This method ...
The European Space Agency announced Tuesday the shortlist of new Earth Explorer mission proposals within its Living Planet Program.
Space Exploration
May 23, 2006
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A new design scheme for a quantum processor core makes potential quantum computers more technically feasible, more efficient, and in many cases faster by keeping all of the quantum bits active all the time, rather than switching ...
General Physics
May 23, 2006
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The Australian government is apparently getting closer to deciding on a plan for the sale of its majority stake in national telco Telstra.
Telecom
May 23, 2006
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