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Location: Johansburg, South Africa
Recent studies into the use of synthetic fibres to improve the longevity of
concrete applications have yielded results that are set to make a positive
impact on the South African construction industry, reports the Cement and
Concrete...
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Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States
A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and
experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might
be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide
captured...
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Location: University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), United States
Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size
and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth.
Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth
at the time of...
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Location: University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
An international team of astronomers has found 10 new “extra
solar” planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a
system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these
other...
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Location: Tempe, Arizona, United States
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex bladelet tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being...
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists
at NASA's Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that
enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of
pixels)...
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