Like a teenager lobbying for the car keys, Phoenix came of age in the era of the automobile. The area's explosive growth in the mid-20th century reflected America's similarly growing love affair with cars.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 27, 2014
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Innovative 3-D printing technology came out on top as Spectrom—developed by a University of Wisconsin-Madison team that includes Cedric Kovacs-Johnson, Charles Haider and Taylor Fahey—won first place in the undergraduate ...
Engineering
Nov 27, 2014
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Scientists at Heriot-Watt University will use the kind of computing algorithms more commonly associated with Google search engines to uncover and record the complex relationships which exist across Scotland's Marine Protected ...
Ecology
Nov 27, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Identifying the sources of high-energy neutrinos—ghostly but potentially information-rich particles believed to be generated by some of the most violent objects in the sky—is near the top of many an astrophysicist's ...
Astronomy
Nov 27, 2014
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Consumer confidence posted its fourth consecutive monthly gain in November, rising to its highest level since July 2007, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
Economics & Business
Nov 27, 2014
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With this year's first recorded leatherback nests in Nicaragua, conservationists are crossing their fingers for a good season.
Ecology
Nov 27, 2014
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The Center for Computational Astrophysics (CfCA) of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan upgraded the supercomputer Cray XC30 system "ATERUI". By introducing state-of-the-art CPUs, the theoretical peak performance ...
Hardware
Nov 27, 2014
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India's environment court has slammed the government over the capital's horrendous air pollution, which it said was "getting worse" every day, and ordered a string of measures to bring it down.
Environment
Nov 27, 2014
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That selfie stick in your hand. A harmless memory-maker? Or a potentially chaos-inducing electromagnetic radiation emitter?
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 27, 2014
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German semiconductors giant Infineon said Thursday it will pay an increased dividend for the year to September and forecasts further sales growth after a solid fourth quarter.
Business
Nov 27, 2014
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