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Telescope For Warning Hazardous Comets and Asteroids Silicon chips developed at MIT s Lincoln Laboratory are the heart of a new telescope that will soon increase by more than five times the ability of scientists to detect asteroids and comets that might some day, too close to ...
Plasmonic Whispering Gallery Microcavity Paves the Way to Future Nanolasers This plasmonic whispering gallery microcavity consists of a silica interior that is coated with a thin layer of silver. It improves on the quality of current plasmonic microcavities by better than an ...
Can tech to clean up nuclear waste also help remove arsenic from drinking water? Arsenic removal from drinking water is a priority for local water authorities, given that long-term exposure has been linked to a host of serious health problems, including cancer, nervous system ...
Earth around the solar A Swiss adventurer in a sun grated airplane going to fly around the world without fuel. The 40,000-kilometer journey will take three weeks and take place in 2010. Already about two years gives the airplane on its maiden voyage. Bertrand Piccard seek new ...
Can Solar Power Resurrect the Housing Market? A Florida developer unveiled plans today to build the nation's first solar-powered city a cluster of homes, offices and factories less than 20 miles from Fort Myers on the Gulf Coast. "Babcock Ranch" would be built on 17,000 acres in ...
Earthshine Reflects Earth's Oceans And Continents From The Dark Side Of The Moon Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Princeton University have shown for the first time that the difference in reflection of light from the Earth s land masses and oceans can be seen on ...
Cover: AdaCore & co reveal their draft free certification FOSS rises to power in the industry. AdaCore, Open Wide, Telecom ParisTech and LIP6 have formalized Tuesday the launch of the draft coverage during a press briefing. This project free and open source is developing tools ...
LED There Be Light Torraca is a small village of 1,200 people in Italy. It is also the first place in the world to be totally illuminated by light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Representing a sea change, much like when electric lamps first graced London's Holborn Viaduct back in 1878, ...
Rock Science: First Meteorites Recovered on Earth from an Asteroid Tracked in Space Last October, asteroid monitors at the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona in Tucson picked up a small object on an immediate collision course with Earth. The asteroid was too small ...
Engineered Nanoparticles Review of Health and Environmental Safety (ENRHES) The European Commission have funded a Coordination & Support Action (CSA) to review current information on the health and safety of nanoparticles. The project, called "Engineered Nanoparticles: Review of ...
DIY Solar Cells Made from Doughnuts and Tea A group of scientists at Notre Dame have shown how dye-sensitised solar cells can be made from doughnuts and tea. In a fast-paced video, Blake Farrow and the PVK group run through a process that essentially combines chemicals from tea ...
Light-as-Air, Heatproof Nanotube Muscles Ballooning tubes: This illustration shows the inside of a two-millimeter-wide strip of an airy carbon-nanotube material that expands to more than three times its width when a five-kilovolt voltage is applied to it. Credit: Ray Baughman, UT ...
If galaxies are all moving apart, how can they collide? This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a collision between two spiral galaxies, NGC 6050 and IC 1179, in the Hercules constellation. Cosmologist Tamara Davis, a research fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia ...
Shuttle set to undock from space station and head home The space shuttle Discovery will detach from the International Space Station (ISS) today at 3:53 P.M. (Eastern Daylight Time) and head back to Earth. It's scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday ...
Nanoparticles in Sunscreen Damage Microbes Nanoparticles in sunscreens, cosmetics and hundreds of other consumer products may pose risks to the environment by damaging beneficial microbes, scientists reported Tuesday. A study by University of Toledo researchers discovered that ...
Mars Rover Gets First Glimpse of Faraway Destination The journey seems almost impossible and endless for the Opportunity rover, heading through the dunes of Meridiani Planum on its way to a distant crater. But now the rover's Panoramic Camera has caught the first glimpse on the ...
Space shuttle Discovery reaches orbit successfully Space shuttle Discovery reached orbit 200 miles above earth tonight at 7:51 local time, after taking off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 7:43:44. The shuttle will drop off the final pieces of the ...
Asteroid to Fly By Earth Wednesday PASADENA, Calif. - A small asteroid will fly past Earth early tomorrow morning (Wed., March 18). The asteroid, 2009 FH, is about 50 feet (15 meters) wide. Its closest approach to Earth will occur at 5:17 a.m. PDT (8:17 a.m. EDT, 12:17 UTC) at an ...
Seeking Out the Sun's Long-Lost Siblings For decades astronomers have been on the hunt for so-called "solar twins" stars with the same ages, masses, temperatures, luminosities and chemical abundances as our own sun. But seeking out solar twins in this way is akin to looking for ...
Under pressure, atoms make unlikely alloys shington, D.C. Ever since the Bronze Age, humans have experimented with combining different metals to create alloys with properties superior to either metal alone. But not all metals readily form alloys for some pairs of elements the ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
The Number One Document also proposed a new pricing plan for China's ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Employees demonstrate Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' Xperia Play ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...