At the end of next year, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to go online. Already, there are four major experiments planned and one of them, ALICE, is dedicated to the study of heavy-ion collisions. Rudolph ...
European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter has set a record for the number of days spent in space by a European astronaut.
Space Exploration
Aug 7, 2006
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NASA says it is about to embark on a series of space flights as difficult as any in history in order to complete the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Aug 7, 2006
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Korean scientists say they have created a new substance that can convert inexpensive intermediate crude oil into gasoline.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 7, 2006
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A Scottish company launched a new system Sunday that will enable employers to track workers' movements through their mobile phones. The tech firm Trisent, based in Dunfermline near Edinburgh, has aimed the system at the business ...
Telecom
Aug 7, 2006
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The architecture that pervades biological networks gives them an evolutionary edge by allowing them to evolve to perform new functions more rapidly than an alternative network design, according to computer simulations conducted ...
General Physics
Aug 7, 2006
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A University of Washington researcher has devised a way to use the fossil teeth of ancient bison as a tool to reconstruct historic climate and vegetation changes in America's breadbasket, the Great Plains.
Archaeology
Aug 7, 2006
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In just two years of work, an international research team has discovered eight new complex, biologically-significant molecules in interstellar space using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope ...
Astronomy
Aug 7, 2006
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Proteases are a family of enzymes that play a central role in cellular metabolism and are key players in many diseases, including cancer. Conventional assays for protease activity are often slow – most take up to 24 hours ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 7, 2006
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When it comes to tiny motors, the flagella used by bacteria to get around their microscopic worlds are hard to beat. Composed of several tens of different types of protein, a flagellum (that's the singular) rotates about ...
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