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The Italian city of Venice is one of the most beautiful, culturally rich and endangered places in the world. With its homes built atop petrified trees, and directly on water, it stands to reason that any change in water levels has the power to significantly damage the 1,300-year-old town. It is located in the largest... |
21 September 2009
09:10 GMT |
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Bioengineering is one of the most promising fields of science today, because it has the ability to transform all organisms into better, more efficient versions of themselves. Genomes are read via high-throughput sequencing at a speed of a few million DNA letters or bases per hour, but, when it comes to tinkering with... |
27 July 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Over thousands of years humans have learned that strength is in the numbers, and that coming together may help them better face the hardships of life. Thus, the largest cities in the world appeared, spanning tens of miles in each direction, and coming to house over 20 million people in a single urban concentration. N... |
16 February 2009
04:12 GMT |
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Over the course of history, man always tried to erect buildings that stood higher above the ground, requiring a great skill in constructing them, as well as offering a sense of personal satisfaction to all those who worked on the project. From the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the ancient palaces of kings and the modern... |
11 February 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany announced recently that they fully support the proposed action plan for the Southern Ocean, which involves it being sprinkled with several tens of tons of iron, which is supposed to help plankton in the area regenerate and take up more harmful carbon dioxide fr... |
29 January 2009
02:52 GMT |
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A team of scientists managed to invent a new piece of software that will aid engineers and architects to better project their work in a digital environment, with the help of a doodling tablet. The new program will allow for increased creativity among these professionals, as it will not feature the classic drag-and-dr... |
14 January 2009
06:18 GMT |
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The Lemelson-MIT Invention Index for 2009 showed without a doubt that America's youth is prepared and willing to embrace careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), with a very large percentage of them showing an active interest in learning “how things work.” Alt... |
7 January 2009
09:25 GMT |
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Andres, the older son of a Spanish family, has a rare hereditary disease called Beta Thalassaemia, which prevents his body from producing the required amount of red cells that carry oxygen. His little brother, who was born only three days ago, has been genetically adapted in order to provide him a cure.The family tha... |
15 October 2008
07:33 GMT |
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Many women have come up with wonderful inventions throughout the history and mythology, but their work was recognized way too rarely. Google decided to set things straight and launched in December its India "Women in Engineering Award." It decided to let the whole world know about it now on the Official Google Blog, ... |
17 January 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Currently available internal combustion engines must achieve ignition in their cylinders to create combustion. Typically engines use either a spark ignition (SI) method or a compression ignition (CI) system.So far, no engine could switch from one ignition type to the other, which is what gave the current gasoline/di... |
27 July 2007
10:03 GMT |
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The tallest building in the world is taking the city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, closer to the sky, as it has just overthrown the former champion, the 1,671 ft (449 m) tall Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan.Building the world's tallest buildings seems to have become a fierce competition in the last decades.... |
23 July 2007
02:48 GMT |
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Robots can do many things, these days, they can vacuum clean a room in minutes, they can sniff out and defuse bombs, some of them can walk like humans and even run and climb hills and mountains. Roboticists are pushing the limit of robot abilities to reach what only sci-fi authors have imagined.But all these abiliti... |
13 July 2007
10:10 GMT |
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Shish-kebab is a tasty meat dish usually made of lamb and beef, but chicken is not excluded. Only pork. Now, a new type of shish-kebab is on the market, but it's made of polymers. And it's not edible.Shish-kebabs are nanoscale structures that form when polymers crystallize during flow, looking like a skewe... |
21 May 2007
05:51 GMT |
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A new radical approach to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) uses a microscopic detector to severely decrease the amount of proteins required to measure molecular structures and could eventually produce a dramatic decrease in size of the existing devices.Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon based ... |
16 May 2007
16:06 GMT |
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Few people go for the best when it comes to buying a cable. Why? I really don't know! I just look at me now and ask myself why don't I go for the best cables?... and the only answer which comes in my mind is because I got used to mid-shelf ones: they're not expensive at all and so, I can afford some l... |
4 April 2007
08:46 GMT |
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They can grow a piece of bone or a piece of skin, but with the latest technologies, it seems they can also grow new hearts, or at least pieces, for heart attack survivors, children born with heart malformations, or those with clogged or weak blood vessels.A team at the University of Michigan Medical School describes ... |
2 April 2007
09:18 GMT |
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Scientists studying robots encounter many problems in their endeavor, and they usually turn to Mother Nature to solve their problems. For instance, how would a robot move?Walking in an upright, manlike position is pretty difficult to achieve, and the most evolved humanoid robot only walks as fast as a clumsy three y... |
26 March 2007
09:06 GMT |
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Just months ago, Soundcraft, the giant name in mixing consoles, has released the new Vi6 digital piece of gear, much to the general awe. It's now time to witness the further expansion of this successful (Vi) series with the new Vi4 console.Basically, it features about all the features met on the larger Vi6 mixer... |
23 March 2007
12:03 GMT |
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No, it's not about the Mini-Me in the „I Spy"-type motion pictures but about the Apogee Electronics (again, a shadow of a rant: every producer feels like it's his utmost duty to make some) interfaces. The Mini-Me, mini MP and Mini-DAC have been designed with extreme portability in mind: as a matter of fact,... |
21 March 2007
07:07 GMT |
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Now, things are somehow clear when it comes to serious audio: you're either into it or not, the middle road is very thin and few manage to walk on it. "In" and "out" do not relate to the money you spend with audio gear but are more closely bound to how you spend it and on what kind of gear.Some people prefer few... |
20 March 2007
12:07 GMT |
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OK, the subtitle definitely sounds funny but it reflects the truth: Re Go Media have released an ear-training software which is now at hand. The Audio Wizard Pro Ear Trainer is a program designed to improve the way you both hear and detect certain frequencies and this is definitely one good asset for a sound technici... |
13 March 2007
13:12 GMT |
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More and more big universities become interested in online training and issue numerous instruction programs for people around the globe. Imagine how cool this could be; learning from the best, but sparing all expenses related to moving around the world: no more of all these as you can now study in the full comfort of... |
12 March 2007
07:17 GMT |
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This year's NSCA Expo brings again an exceptional moment courtesy of the Dolby Laboratories: the Dolby lake Processor Training, held Wednesday, March 14, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Orlando International Drive Resort. From generic presentations to in-depth descriptions of principles and opera... |
5 March 2007
05:06 GMT |
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So you had an old Nintendo console and it broke down. Cool, there are lots of people like you, so far. After seeing that nothing more can be done for the console to come back to a functional state, you somehow avoided to throw it in the garbage truck, instead it has ended somewhere in the attic or basement - still, t... |
2 March 2007
05:01 GMT |
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