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04.05.2010, 13:08
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A powerful laser can be shot into humid air to cause intense water condensation, scientists have discovered. The technology has the potential to replace cloud seeding widely used today.
23.12.2009, 17:45
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Former colleagues at Bell Labs are now involved in a bitter row over who deserved this year’s Nobel Prize for inventing the CCD matrix, the heart of modern digital imaging.
25.09.2009, 12:10
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A US laboratory has been able to re-make an experiment to create element 114, ten years after it was first reported by a Russian group. It is thought to be a key part in the quest for the so-called Island of Stability.
16.06.2009, 08:03
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With the rapid progress of biotechnology and with more genomes being deciphered in full, scientists begin to speculate that someday we may be able to help bring extinct species back into existence.
20.10.2009, 15:15
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The mass extinctions in Earth’s history may have been caused by the rapid growth of toxic algae, scientists believe. The modern environment favors such a deadly event.
18.07.2009, 01:36
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Life on Earth is under a serious threat. World leaders fail to reverse the trend by 2010 despite commitments made in 2002.
04.08.2009, 14:14
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A team of European and US researchers have modified the maize genome so that the plant emits a chemical compound which attracts nematode worms, which in turn kill pests damaging the crops.
26.04.2009, 16:18
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Conservation organizations have won agreement from the Sakhalin Energy consortium to end seismic work in Russian waters, near the only feeding ground of a critically endangered population of gray whales.
17.12.2009, 16:13
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A startup company is experimenting with technology, which manipulates the ions in seawater to produce drinking water with little energy consumption.
09.11.2009, 16:05
On the evening of November 8, Vitaly Ginzburg, a world-famous Russian physicist and academician died.
Published: 27 November, 2009, 15:57
Edited: 28 November, 2009, 05:45
The first-ever experimental green power plant, utilizing the energy derived from freshwater and seawater pressure difference has been launched in Norway.
Quite an interesting technology. It is however a consern that such power plants can damage special ecosystems that often exists only where fresh and saltwater meets, much like hydroelectric plants can damage ecosystems (worth to say that all of the power consumed by the norwegian non industrial sector comes from hydroelectric plants). Anyway, this technology may have lots of potential in the world if used right, and it is cool to see that Norway is leading the research on it:) Good to be able to export technologies like this at the time all the oil is pumped out...^^