Lockheed Martin’s enhanced version of the combat-proven PAC-3 Missile, the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, successfully intercepted a threat representative tactical ballistic missile target in the MSE battlespace ...
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Mar 3, 2011
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Infectious diseases researchers at Umeå University in Sweden are studying the properties of bacteria with the same methods that materials scientists use to research surfaces. Studies of the outermost parts of the cell ...
Biochemistry
Mar 3, 2011
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After nine years in a clean room, an instrument that studies the Earth's atmosphere and protective ozone layer has been returned to service.
Space Exploration
Mar 3, 2011
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Recent molecular phylogenetic analysis has shown that the marine animals known as peanut worms are not a separate phylum, but are definitely part of the family of annelids, also known as segmented worms. This is a classification ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2011
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The ETH-Bibliothek at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) is to post six new Einstein letters to his university friend Jakob Ehrat and the latter's mother Emma Ehrat-Uhlinger on the web. The ETH-Bibliothek currently holds over one hundred ...
Other
Mar 3, 2011
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Flax seeds can grow in radioactive soil near the contaminated site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident without much change to their proteins, experiments show. This study may point the way to growing crops in space, on the ...
Biotechnology
Mar 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Watson’s recent supercomputer victory over Jeopardy’s best players has some wondering if computers are getting smarter than, or at least as smart, as humans.
Computer Sciences
Mar 3, 2011
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University at Buffalo Law School Professor Charles Patrick Ewing has added to his series of critically acclaimed books on some of the most unsavory but attention-grabbing aspects of the law, this time with a book questioning ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2011
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A new paper by University of Calgary researchers, published today in PLoS ONE, demonstrates the edge given to prey in the “space race” by human activity.
Ecology
Mar 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The science similar to the type used in airport body scanners could soon be used to detect everything from defects in aerospace vehicles or concrete bridges to skin cancer, thanks to researchers at Missouri ...
Engineering
Mar 3, 2011
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