On Feb. 11, 2000, two radar antennas built by JPL launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on an 11-day mission to create the first-ever near-global high-resolution database of Earth's topography.
Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2010
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A method smartphones use to simplify images when storage space is limited could help answer tough chemistry problems. In a report appearing in ACS Central Science, researchers apply this technique, called compressed, or compressive ...
Materials Science
Mar 23, 2015
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(AP) -- Second Life is getting a little less steamy for people who want to use the virtual world for a myriad of PG-rated experiences, such as taking classes, prototyping buildings or designing virtual goods.
Internet
Apr 22, 2009
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Private v. public, virtual v. real have converged in a world saturated by information technology. It seems impossible to divide the public from the personal. But when and where do we choose to share information about ourselves? ...
Security
Apr 18, 2016
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The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was scheduled to be held in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2020, and was expected to gather thousands of negotiators, policymakers, ...
Environment
Jun 1, 2020
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at North Carolina State University have combined scholarship and new technologies to re-create the courtyard of St. Paul's Cathedral in London as it stood in 1622, as well as a historic sermon made ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 7, 2013
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Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have identified specific elements of tone and style in online speech that are linked to hyperpartisan echo chambers. The findings are now published in the journal Discourse & Society.
Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced education, services, health care and many other aspects of everyday life online. For social work, that transition started as a challenge, but it can actually be an opportunity for educators, social ...
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2023
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Big bitcoin backers the Winklevoss brothers said Wednesday they had used the virtual currency to buy tickets into space on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic aircraft.
Business
Mar 5, 2014
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In the past, the courts were ideal breeding grounds for spreading disease. In what became known as the "Black Assize", a deadly fever that swept through prisons and courts in England in 1586, 11 of 12 jurors in one trial ...
Social Sciences
Apr 8, 2020
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