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The MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally. MIRAS will map soil...
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:: 18 November, 2009
A sensing surface developed by Microsoft researchers offers new ways to use computers.
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:: 18 November, 2009
MIT research points to a much more efficient way of harvesting electrical power from what would otherwise be wasted heat.
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:: 17 November, 2009
On Saturday evening, at around 8 p.m., after passing through the LHCb detector, for the first time since last year's incident, protons arrived at...
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:: 17 November, 2009
Last week, as I tapped a laptop keyboard in Massachusetts, a humanoid robot whirled around a lab in California. I tapped more slowly and the robot...
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:: 17 November, 2009
"Peer-to-peer" (P2P) is synonymous with piracy and bandwidth hogging on the Internet. But now, Internet service providers and content companies are...
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:: 17 November, 2009
Batteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes can produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be...
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:: 16 November, 2009
Eleven German-French research teams headed for the starting line on October 27, 2007 in Paris. Their goal: to build bilateral collaborations and to...
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:: 16 November, 2009
With the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center (Florida) on 16 November 2009 at 14:28 local time (20:28 Central European...
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:: 16 November, 2009
Technologists advocating better security for the domain name system (DNS) have frequently predicted that the technology would be deployed in the...
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:: 16 November, 2009
Researchers in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating...
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:: 16 November, 2009
East Tennessee is now home to two of the world's three fastest computers, according to new rankings released today.
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:: 14 November, 2009
A new system for ensuring accurate election tallies, which MIT researchers helped to develop, passed its first real-world test.
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:: 13 November, 2009
Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish...
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:: 13 November, 2009
Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle...
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:: 13 November, 2009
There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon...
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:: 12 November, 2009
A proposed hub for connecting the three independent electricity grids that span the continental United States could make it easier to ramp up...
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:: 12 November, 2009
Recent advances in cryptography could mean that future cloud computing services will not only be able to encrypt documents to keep them safe in the...
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:: 12 November, 2009
James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's...
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:: 12 November, 2009
In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting...
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