Donald Brownlee's heart skipped a beat six years ago when the launch of the Stardust spacecraft didn't happen as planned. The University of Washington astronomy professor has experienced many other tense times since the historic ...
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In an important new study assessing the demographic impact of the shift from foraging to farming, anthropologists use evidence from 60 prehistoric American cemeteries to prove that the invention of agriculture led to a significant ...
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Modern health information systems today are proprietary and often only serve one department making it impossible to easily share data across one facility, never mind across different facilities or countries. A big problem, ...
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International engineering firm AMEC is working with ESA to improve monitoring of ground subsidence linked to mining activity. Radar satellites in orbit 800 kilometres away can reveal millimetre-scale elevation shifts across ...
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Scientists say they have found a link between deforestation and the spread of malaria in the Peruvian Amazon.
Jan 3, 2006
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Singapore's Pacific Internet has struck a marketing deal in China for its Internet Protocol communications products.
Jan 3, 2006
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The United Arab Emirates is gearing its telecommunications strategy toward the expansion and improvement of services.
Jan 3, 2006
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Getting the right equipment and network systems is critical to the success of any sizeable business, but it has hitherto been very much a back-office position. According to some analysts, however, the power and clout of the ...
Jan 3, 2006
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Belgian chemists have developed "self-exploding" microcapsules that could one day precisely release drugs and vaccines inside the human body weeks or even months after injection. The study, by researchers at Ghent University ...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has awarded a knighthood to the designer of Apple Computer's iPod.
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