What's about the size of a large refrigerator, weighs a ton and may help pave the way for new and improved metals or glasses here on Earth? It's the Materials Science Research Rack -- a new laboratory on board the International ...
Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009
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On six more Saturdays between now and mid-November, a caravan of pilgrims will arrive at University Park, Pennsylvania. Many will sport outlandishly colorful attire. Some will appear days beforehand and live in tents, setting ...
Other
Sep 17, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether for introduced muskrats in Europe or oak trees in the United Kingdom, zebra mussels in United States lakes or agricultural pests around the world, scientists have tried to find new ways of controlling ...
Ecology
Sep 17, 2009
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In the early 1980s, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., developed the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), an innovative combination of two satellite measurements that allowed them ...
Environment
Sep 17, 2009
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(AP) -- Getting named the local paper's Person of the Year was supposed to be an honor for small-town politician Dean Zuleger. But the award only enraged many townspeople.
Internet
Sep 17, 2009
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ASUS today launched a Skype Certified touchscreen videophone dedicated to unlimited video calling over the Internet -- the ASUS Videophone Touch AiGuru SV1T.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 17, 2009
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(AP) -- Up to 200 dead walruses have been spotted on the shore of Chukchi Sea on Alaska's northwest coast.
Ecology
Sep 17, 2009
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Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have developed a new mass spectrometry-based tool they say provides more precise, cost-effective data collection for drug discovery efforts.
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 17, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first-ever moon temperature-mapping effort has returned its first data.
Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A satellite that won't be launched into orbit until 2015 is already paying dividends for an advanced weather research project.
Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009
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