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Sea's sun-deprived secrets revealed
8 images in this story Thousands of animal species thrive in the ocean depths beyond the reach of sunlight, scientists have reported after nearly 10 years of research. |
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Onboard the world's biggest cruise ship
From the outside, the world's biggest and most expensive cruise ship looks like a floating block of flats. It is only when you are on board the Oasis of the Seas that you start to get a sense of the scale of this enormous liner, which can cater for more than 6,000 passengers. Everything about the Oasis is vast: it is taller than Nelson's column, it has more than 3,000 miles of electrical cabling - that is about the distance from London to New York - and it weighs more than 225,000 tonnes. One of the corridors is a quarter of a mile long. You can see the other end, but it never seems to get any closer.... Oasis of the Seas - the world's biggest cruise shipImage 1 of 7 Oasis of the Seas arrives into Port Everglades on 11/13/2009 Video |
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World's largest atom smasher breaks power record
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Posted: 2009-11-30 11:23:41 GENEVA (AP) - The world's largest atom smasher broke the world record for proton acceleration Monday, firing particle beams with 20 percent more power than the American lab that previously held the record. The power of the Large Hadron Collider's proton beams is essential to the project's ultimate goal: smashing particles into each other with enough force to shatter them into the smallest building blocks of matter. The early-morning test continues a recent sequence of successes that have elated scientists who were disappointed by the $10 billion machine's collapse last year during its opening in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel under the Swiss-French border. The breakdown required extensive repairs and improvements. The collider fired two particle beams at 1.18 trillion electron volts early Monday, surpassing the previous high of 0.98 1 TeV held by the Chicago-area Fermilab since 2001, according to the European Organization for Nuclear Research..... |
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Experts: Man Controlled Robotic Hand With Thoughts
Scientists in Italy say amputee controlled robotic hand connected to nerves, felt sensation An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, scientists said Wednesday. During a one-month experiment conducted last year, 26-year-old Pierpaolo Petruzziello felt like his lost arm had grown back again, although he was only controlling a robotic hand that was not even attached to his body. "It's a matter of mind, of concentration," Petruzziello said. "When you think of it as your hand and forearm, it all becomes easier.".... |
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From the BBC ( Video ) Scientists hail robotic hand 'breakthrough'
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48-core cloud computing silicon chip
The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC), as it is known, contains 1.3 billion transistors, the tiny on-off switches that underpin chip technology. Each processing core could, in theory, run a separate operating system. Currently, top-end chips for desktop computers typically contain four separate processors. |
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Grid computing tunes tiny transistors for future chips
A vast network of computers is being harnessed to design components for the next generation of silicon chips. |
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Ancient site reveals signs of mass cannibalism
Archaeologists have found evidence of mass cannibalism at a 7,000-year-old human burial site in south-west Germany, the journal Antiquity reports. The authors say their findings provide rare evidence of cannibalism in Europe's early Neolithic period. |
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"Test of Concept" rocket launched, fueled by nanoscale aluminum and ice.
The rocket was named "ALICE" from the two component fuel. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/24/nasa_alice_test/ |
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Sgt.Joe
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Interesting post by Dr. Korpela concerning the NEZ controversy.
----------------------------------------http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=56450&sort=6 Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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