Russia, India sign space research pact
Russian and Indian space agencies announced their ministers have signed a joint lunar research and exploration pact.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2007
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Foot-and-mouth lab looks for new home
Five U.S. states are vying for a $500 million federal research center that would house highly infectious animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth.
Other
Nov 12, 2007
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Engineering students use smart materials to design a smart wing
A prototype aircraft wing, designed last year by four Temple mechanical engineering seniors to use “memory alloys” and electrical current to control and position the wing’s flaps, was a finalist in the recent Collegiate ...
Engineering
Nov 12, 2007
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Chocolate drinks - probably fermented ones - popular long before previously thought, says anthropologist
Mesoamerican menus featured cacao beverages - probably fermented ones - at least as early as 1100 B.C., some 500 years earlier than previously documented anywhere, according to new research published in the latest issue of ...
Archaeology
Nov 12, 2007
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Genetic technology reveals how poisonous mushrooms cook up toxins
Heather Hallen spent eight years looking for poison in all the wrong places. Alpha-amanitin is the poison of the death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides. The Michigan State University plant biology research associate was looking ...
Nov 12, 2007
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Chimps dig up clues to human past?
One of the keys enabling the earliest human ancestors to trade a forest home for more open country may have been the ability to gather underground foods. Now a team of scientists reports for the first time that in Tanzania ...
Nov 12, 2007
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Proteins pack tighter in crowded native state
The syrupy soup of proteins, ribosomes and membranes inside a living cell is so tightly packed it may increase the structural content of proteins by as much as 25 percent, according to new research from Rice University and ...
Nov 12, 2007
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Clean, carbon-neutral hydrogen on the horizon
Hydrogen as an everyday, environmentally friendly fuel source may be closer than we think, according to Penn State researchers.
Nov 12, 2007
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PMA-2 Move Readies Station for Harmony Relocation
International Space Station crewmembers move Pressurized Mating Adaptor-2 from the front of the U.S. laboratory Destiny to the Harmony node early Monday, clearing the way for Harmony's relocation to its permanent home.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2007
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IBM's Blue Gene Pulls Away from the Pack
IBM’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer sprinted to a new world record as it continued its four-year domination of the official TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list. The world’s fastest computer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
Hardware
Nov 12, 2007
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