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Images are a very important part of our life, whether we are talking about the photo of a cute actor that we want to use as a wallpaper or the image of a rose to employ as a postcard, the Internet is an enormous source of all sorts of pictures. But it’s quite difficult to locate the image that you want just by ... |
15 November 2009 11:51 GMT |
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NASA mission controllers and planners have decided that the space shuttle Atlantis is in excellent shape to fly tomorrow, on the STS-129 assembly mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft will take off from the Launch Pad 39A complex at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It w... |
15 November 2009 06:04 GMT |
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Next to the International Space Station (ISS), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is arguably the most complex and amazing human scientific project ever constructed. Its main goal is to recreate the conditions that existed just a few fractions of a second after the beginning of the Universe, immediately after the event ... |
15 November 2009 05:30 GMT |
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Solar power is the most abundant source of renewable energy in the world today, rivaled only by wind power and geothermal energy. The Sun will indeed rise every day when expected, at least for the next four to five billion years, so harvesting its energy is a long-term objective. Existing solar cells can easily trap ... |
15 November 2009 04:58 GMT |
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Scientists at the Tucson, Arizona-based Sion Power Corporation (SPC) have recently been awarded an $800,000, three-year grant for studying the complex properties of lithium-sulfur batteries. The company is a world leader in the field, with more than 100 national and international patents on the technology pending or ... |
15 November 2009 04:43 GMT |
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The dual nature of light, as in the fact that it can act like both a particle and a wave, has had physicists puzzled since that was first discovered. Such a duality was bound to lead to some paradoxes, scientists hypothesized at the time, and now their predictions appear to be coming true. Scientists have recently di... |
15 November 2009 04:28 GMT |
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