13/06/2007

Energy police patrolling China

China is recruiting "energy police" to make sure offices, schools, shopping malls and other buildings aren't using too much power.

Deadly frog fungus found in Japan

A deadly parasitic fungus that has been killing frogs around the world has has been found in wild frogs in Japan for the first time.

Science-based 9/11 animation created

U.S. scientists have created a science-based animation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers.

Atlantis Astronauts Making 2nd Spacewalk

Astronauts Pat Forrester and Steve Swanson kicked off STS-117’s second spacewalk at 2:28 p.m. EDT today. The objectives of the excursion are to continue preparing the newly installed Starboard 3 and 4 (S3/S4) truss segment ...

Spitzer Searches for the Origins of Life

Astronomers suspect the early Earth was a very harsh place. Temperatures were extreme, and the planet was constantly bombarded by cosmic debris. Many scientists believe that life's starting materials, or building blocks, ...

IMEC advancing state-of-the-art in FinFETs

At this week’s VLSI Symposium, IMEC presents significant progress in the manufacturability, circuit performance and reliability of FinFETs. The results advance FinFET process technology towards being a candidate for the ...

Two more active moons around Saturn

Saturn’s moons Tethys and Dione are flinging great streams of particles into space, according to data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini mission to Saturn. The discovery suggests the possibility of some sort of geological activity, ...

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