Hybrid electric vehicle project announced
Two U.S. research organizations have signed a three-year agreement to assess the commercial feasibility of using plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Engineering
Nov 29, 2006
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Teams Explore Roots of Angkor Civilization
Five seasons of excavations at Ban Non Wat, in Northeast Thailand, have unearthed 470 human burials covering a time span of more than 2,000 years. Earthwatch-supported research at this great moated site, led by anthropologist ...
Archaeology
Nov 29, 2006
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Save the whales? Sure, but how many?
How many wildebeest should live in the Serengeti? How many grizzly bears should call Yellowstone home? Are there too few tigers in the world? Conservationist biologists grapple with the task of setting population targets ...
Nov 29, 2006
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Researchers Grow 7 mm Carbon Nanotube Array
Nanotechnology revolves around the creation of technology — films, materials, devices, applications and systems — on a scale of 1–100 nanometers. But what is a nanometer? A nanometer is one billionth of a meter or ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 29, 2006
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HiRISE Team Begins Releasing a Flood of Mars Images Over the Internet
The University of Arizona-based team that operates the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, in conjunction with NASA, is releasing the first of what will be a non-stop flood of incredibly detailed ...
Astronomy
Nov 29, 2006
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Phishing and pharming and fraud, oh my! Sleuthing the cyber swindlers
Technology has transformed the Internet into an accessible and speedy superhighway, yet it also has paved slick paths for crooks to prey upon innocent online travelers.
Computer Sciences
Nov 29, 2006
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December offers meteor shower and cluster of three planets
The Geminid meteor shower is usually the best of the year, but it tends to take a back seat to the Perseid shower of August. The Perseids have the advantage of a pleasant summer night, while the Geminids have a major problem ...
Astronomy
Nov 29, 2006
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Geobiologists Solve 'Catch-22 Problem' Concerning the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
Two and a half billion years ago, when our evolutionary ancestors were little more than a twinkle in a bacterium's plasma membrane, the process known as photosynthesis suddenly gained the ability to release molecular oxygen ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2006
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Spider man looks for answers in the forest
Dave Shorthouse admits he's obsessed with spiders, so it wasn't at all unusual for him to spend two years in the forests of the Peace River country, collecting and counting the critters for the good of the environment.
Nov 29, 2006
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New technology puts hand-held projectors within reach
Pocket-sized projectors capable of screening movies from a laptop or mobile phone could be on the market within three years, following a new deal agreed by the University of Cambridge.
Engineering
Nov 29, 2006
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