25/09/2004

West Antarctic Glaciers Are Increasinly Thinning

Glaciers in West Antarctica are shrinking at a rate substantially higher than observed in the 1990s. They are losing 60 percent more ice into the Amundsen Sea than they accumulate from inland snowfall. The study was conducted ...

NASA Searches for Life on Mars in Atacama Desert

A dedicated team of scientists is spending the next four weeks in northern Chile's Atacama Desert. They are studying the scarce life that exists there and, in the process, helping NASA learn more about how primitive life ...

Faster, more precise MRI for the medical world

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) revolutionised the medical world two decades ago, providing doctors with an unparalleled view inside the human body. Now, MRI-MARCB has taken MRI to a new level with a system that enhances ...

Mobile with 360 Mbit/s

Using a combination of two radio technologies, Siemens researchers have now entered a new dimension of data transfer for mobile communications. The new system is able to transfer data at a rate of up to 360 megabits per second ...