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Search For Extreme Organisms In Antarctica
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 07, 2008In early February, NASA's Richard Hoover will lead a team of world class explorers to a remote location in Antarctica to search for unique, never-before identified microbes. NASA and its partner organizations study the potential for life in such extreme zones to help understand the limitations of life on Earth, and to prepare human explorers to search other worlds for signs of life in the univer ... more New Insights Into Southern Ocean's Role In Global Climate 
Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Feb 06, 2008In the Southern Ocean, large quantities of surface-drifting plankton algae are able to significantly reduce the carbon dioxide content of the surface waters, which can affect the global carbon dioxide cycle. This is one of the results from an Antarctic expedition which has just drawn to a close in Cape Town on February 4, and which was led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, part of the Helmholtz A ... more Core Samples Obtained From Subsea Fault System Off Japan 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2008The third expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) completed its mission off the Kii Peninsula. The expedition science party, 26 scientists representing 10 countries, set forth on Dec. 19, 2007, aboard the drilling vessel Chikyu, to evaluate the deformation, structural partitioning, and physical characteristics of the Nankai Tr ... more Scripps Scientists Peg Wind As The Force Behind Fish Booms And Busts 
San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2008The mid-20th century crash of the sardine fishery off California for decades has vexed marine ecologists searching for the root causes of large fluctuations in the sardine population. Before its collapse, the fishery was one of the world's most productive and formed the setting of John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" in Monterey, Calif. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San ... more MIT Program Aims To Monitor Air And Water Quality Around The Globe 
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 06, 2008Researchers from MIT and two Singaporean universities met on January 24-25 for an inaugural workshop to launch a bold new international research program called CENSAM. The program will develop pervasive environmental sensor networks to collect data on parameters such as air and water quality from many sources, and use this data to provide accurate, real-time monitoring, modeling and control of t ... more |
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San Diego (SPX) Feb 05, 2008Researchers from San Diego State University and the University of California have been using computer models to mimic the effects of underwater noise on an unusual whale species and have discovered a new pathway for sound entering the head and ears. Advances in Finite Element Modeling (FEM), Computed tomography (CT) scanning, and computer processing have made it possible to simulate the environm ... more Gibraltar Arc Active Faults Mapped To Prevent Earthquakes 
Granada, Spain (SPX) Feb 06, 2008Africa and Europe get about 4 mm closer every year in a northeast convergence direction. The exact position and geometry of the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates is unknown, but it is located near the Gibraltar Arc - an area of intense seismic activity which was not studied deeply until now. A group of researchers from the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences (CSIC) and t ... more U.S. offers plan to avoid animal testing 
Bethesda, Md. (UPI) Feb 6, 2008The U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences proposed a plan to reduce the use of animals in research and regulatory testing. The plan offered by the arm of the National Institutes of Health was unveiled during a Tuesday symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods, or ICCVAM. The plan identifie ... more Offshore Alaska Lease Sale Vital To Meeting America's Energy Needs 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2008At the lease sale in Anchorage, energy companies submitted a record number of bids - 667 altogether - for the right to search for oil and natural gas beneath the waters off the northern coast of Alaska. All told, these companies were prepared to spend $3.4 billion for the chance to look for domestic sources of energy. Tom Fry, NOIA President, commented that, the number of bids and the high ... more Fairchild Semiconductor Selects Pune, India For Research And Development Center 
San Jose CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2008Fairchild Semiconductor has opened a design center in Pune, India. This research and design (R and D) center will be responsible for designing and developing the company's new generation of power MOSFETs and IGBT technology to support popular applications such as solar inverters, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), automotive, lighting and ballast applications. The Indian R and D design ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) Feb 5, 2008The European Union and Russia are battling over the future of a pipeline aimed at diversifying Europe's energy imports. The so-called Nabucco pipeline, first planned in 2004, would transport natural gas to Austria from the Caspian region via Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. Stretching more than 2,000 miles, it will run from Erzurum, Turkey, to Baumgarten an der March, a major natu ... more Coskata And ICM To Design And Build Commercial Ethanol Plants 
Warrenville IL (SPX) Feb 07, 2008Coskata announced a strategic alliance with ICM to design and construct a commercial ethanol plant using Coskata's biological fermentation technology. ICM is North America's leading ethanol plant design, engineering and support firm. Its patented proprietary process technology is responsible for approximately 50 percent of North American ethanol production from plants constructed by Fagen, Inc. ... more Intermap And Magellan Enhance Off-Road Experience AccuTerra Map Content 
Denver CO (SPX) Feb 05, 2008Magellan announced the market availability of AccuTerra outdoor map content from Intermap Technologies. Beginning in April, Magellan customers can download the most comprehensive recreational content, including clear markings for public and private property, for the new line of Magellan Triton GPS devices as well as its eXplorist line of handheld GPS devices. ... more GyPSii Hitches A Ride On BlackBerry 
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 05, 2008GyPSii is now available for use on BlackBerry smartphones. Already compatible with Symbian and Windows Mobile-powered handsets, the support for BlackBerry smartphones means that GyPSii now runs on all the leading mobile operating systems, opening up the GyPSii application to the mass market for mobile consumers. "The market for geo-location and social networking services on the mobile phon ... more City Of Paris Chooses 3M Library Systems For Conversion Of 42 Branches To RFID 
St. Paul MN (SPX) Feb 05, 2008The City of Paris has chosen 3M Library Systems to supply and install radio frequency identification (RFID) systems at 42 branches. The technology is intended to boost the efficiency of circulation and collection management, improve security and, at higher-traffic branches, provide customers with self-service check-out and return facilities and free up staff for other functions. 3M is a le ... more
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