16/08/2006

Scientists use math to find oil

Mathematical procedures developed at MIT may soon help energy companies locate new sources of oil many kilometers underground.

Update: Apollo 11 Tapes

NASA personnel continue to sift through 37-year-old records in their attempt to locate the magnetic tapes that recorded the original Apollo 11 video in 1969. The original tapes may be at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which ...

Far away galaxy under the microscope

An international group of astronomers have discovered large disc galaxies akin to our Milky Way that must have formed on a rapid time scale, only 3 billion years after the Big Bang. In one of these systems, the combination ...

Completed genome set to transform the cow

The ability of scientists to improve health and disease management of cattle and enhance the nutritional value of beef and dairy products has received a major boost with the release this week of the most complete sequence ...

New record for world's fastest transistor set

Engineers in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (University of Southampton, UK) have developed a method to make bipolar transistors twice as fast as current devices.

Three Continents Collide to Create Australia

A PhD student in the University of Adelaide’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences has found evidence of a collision between northern and central Australia 1.64 billion years ago. Kate Selway says that two billion ...

The IAU draft definition of 'planet' and 'plutons'

The world’s astronomers, under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), have concluded two years of work defining the difference between “planets” and the smaller “solar system bodies” such as ...

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