Archive for the ‘ScienceNews’ Category
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
The European Space Agency (ESA) signalled the start of a busy period for the planet Mercury, when it signed the contract for industrial development to start for the BepiColombo mission today (18th January 2008) at Astrium in Friedrichshafen, Germany. UK scientists and industry have key roles in BepiColombo, including construction ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays. Their research, published in the Journal Nature on November 4th, was carried out using the High ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
By working in synergy with a ground-based telescope array, the joint Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/NASA Suzaku X-ray observatory is shedding new light on some of the most energetic objects in our galaxy, but objects that remain shrouded in mystery.
These cosmic powerhouses pour out vast amounts of energy, and they ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
The tiny robot is ringed with sensors that can determine the obstacle-free roaming space, and will either allow infants to bump obstacles or will take control from the infant and drive around the obstacle itself. (Credit: Image courtesy of University Of Delaware)
Babies driving robots. It sounds like the theme of ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
In a computer model, researchers at Illinois were able to simulate the photosynthetic behavior of actual leaves. Here, a gas exchange system measures the rate of carbon dioxide and electron transport in intact leaves. (Credit: Photo by Don Hamerman)
University of Illinois researchers have built a better plant, one that produces ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
A giant peccary in the wild. (Credit: Naturfilm/Roland Gockel)
Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen has discovered a new species of peccary, a member of the pig family, in the basin of the Rio Aripuanã in the south-eastern Amazon region. The divergence time from the already known peccary species (the time ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
The orange shapes in this image represent the magma chamber -- a chamber of molten and partly molten rock -- beneath the giant volcanic crater known as the Yellowstone caldera, which is represented by the rusty-colored outline at the top. The red rectangular slab-like feature is a computer-generated representation of ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
A ton of microscopic bacteria may be active in each acre of soil. (Credit: Michael T. Holmes, Oregon State University, Corvallis.)
An bacteria and infectious diseases expert argues that all living things must have infections to thrive. Anti-bacterial products are changing how immune systems, gastrointestinal systems and even nervous systems develop ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society and other institutions declare that improvements in management of existing protected areas in South Asia could double the number of tigers currently existing in the region.
Specifically, the study examined 157 reserves throughout the Indian subcontinent--comprising India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal. It found that 21 ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
One of two famous rock reliefs from this area is on the rock cliff in the left of this image. The better preserved of the two rock reliefs shows the Hittite King Muwatalli II (ca. 1290--1272 BC), opponent of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the famous Battle of Qadesh in Syria ...
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