Surveillance cameras are sprouting up in more and more places, forming an ever more powerful tool for solving crimes after they happen. But what about using them to prevent or stop criminal and terrorist acts? This requires ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 14, 2006
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In the storerooms of a Venice, Italy, museum, a University of California, Berkeley, scholar and Italian experts are at work on a rare collection, but the objects aren't Renaissance paintings or the art of ancient glassblowers. ...
Other
Dec 14, 2006
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A new five-year project headed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory is expected to lead to a more in-depth understanding of natural and other approaches to clean up contaminated sites around the nation.
Environment
Dec 14, 2006
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Research at the University of Liverpool into a large fault zone in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile has produced new insight into how fluid pressure can cause earthquakes.
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2006
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Don't despair if your kids are clamouring for the Nintendo Wii or the Playstation 3 this Christmas - at least those are more affordable than the $1.5-million virtual reality lab in the University of Alberta's Computer Science ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 14, 2006
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A new survey of public attitudes towards energy and the environment has shown a clear divergence between people’s views as citizens and their actions as consumers.
Other
Dec 14, 2006
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Ever since NASA's Stardust spacecraft delivered a payload of comet dust to Earth on Jan. 15, 2006, scientists by the hundreds have been clamoring for samples.
General Physics
Dec 14, 2006
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Stardust, the NASA spacecraft mission, was given that name in hopes that the seven-year journey to capture comet samples would bring back to Earth, well, stardust.
Astronomy
Dec 14, 2006
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A new insulation material with the lowest thermal conductivity ever measured for a fully dense solid has been created at the University of Oregon and tested by researchers at three other U.S. institutions. While far from ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 14, 2006
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Conventional matter exists in three familiar forms-solid, liquid and gas. But under special circumstances, quantum theory predicts exotic states of matter, such as superconductors in which electrons flow with no resistance ...
General Physics
Dec 14, 2006
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