China wants to use the Beijing Winter Olympics to showcase its green credentials but there are concerns over the environmental cost of a Games relying on artificial snow in one of the driest places in the country.
Environment
Jan 3, 2022
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Robin Williams' suicide seared into the world's collective mindset more than anything else this year, based on what people were searching for on Google.
Internet
Dec 16, 2014
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During the opening ceremonies of this summer's Olympic games in London, a musical performance culminated with a stage-set house rising into the rafters to reveal Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, sitting ...
Internet
Oct 22, 2012
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Pirkko Markula says when it comes to the Olympics, media coverage rarely gives women equal treatment.
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Olympic skeleton athletes will hit the ice next month in Vancouver, where one-hundredths of a second can dictate the difference between victory and defeat.
Engineering
Feb 3, 2010
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There's little doubt—among scientists at any rate—that the climate has warmed since people began to release massive amounts greenhouse gases to the atmosphere during the Industrial Revolution.
Environment
Mar 17, 2013
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Two cosmonauts took the Olympic torch—unlit—for a spacewalk Saturday in a historic showcasing of Russia's Sochi Winter Olympic Games in three months' time.
Space Exploration
Nov 9, 2013
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(Phys.org)—World records have been broken this year not only in sports by Olympic athletes in London, but also in high temperature superconducting magnet technology by the Superconducting Magnet Division (SMD) staff at ...
General Physics
Oct 9, 2012
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Comcast says it is updating its mobile viewing app, Xfinity TV Go, to allow subscribers to watch popular channels such as CNN, Fox News, Disney Channel, CNBC, ESPN and FX on the go.
Telecom
Oct 29, 2013
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Australians think the fairest way to judge the Olympic medal tally is by medals per capita while Americans think it should be judged on total medals.
Other
Aug 12, 2016
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