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IAP class probes Singapore highway collapse
02-01-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT Professor Andrew Whittle, who was one of four international experts chosen to probe the catastrophic collapse of a subway excavation in Singapore, presented his findings in the IAP class, "What Caused the Collapse of the Nicoll Highway in Singapore?"
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- Prototype space probe prepares to explore Earth's deepest sinkhole
03-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists return this week to the world’s deepest known sinkhole for tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth’s most extreme regions and potentially in outer space. DEPTHX's technology could aid future space probes of Europa, where scientists believe deep holes in the ice could hold extraterrestrial life.
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- IAP class finds greatness in cell-phone photos
01-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Someday, perhaps, a Pulitzer Prize committee will add a category for cell-phone photographs. But for now, photographer and new media artist Gary Duehr has a message for would-be digital shutterbugs: Accept the medium for what it is.
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- Tabletop Experiment Yields Bubbly Surprise
10-06-2006 · ScienceDaily
University of Chicago physicists have discovered a new class of behavior in air bubbles rising from an underwater nozzle. In this surprising behavior, the bubbles tear apart in sharp jerks instead of pinching off at a point, the research team will report in the Oct. 6 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
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- New technique studies how plastic solar cells turn sunlight into electricity
12-11-2006 · EurekAlert!
A new analytical technique, featured on the cover of this week's issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B, could lead to the development of cheaper, more efficient solar cells. The information that this technique provides is a critical step in the development of a new class of solar cells, which promise significant savings in production costs compared to conventional silicon-based cells.
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- Expanded evening and day class programme offers courses from psychology to Pompeii
01-30-2007 · University of Bath
From the archaeology of the Cold War to a psychological investigation into criminals, the University of Bath's new programme of evening and day classes offers places on a variety of courses
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- Cosmic Vision 2015-2025:ready to launch
02-27-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Within a few days, ESA will invite the scientific community to propose the first missions for Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. The first medium-class mission should be launched in the 2016-2017 timeframe at the latest. The first large mission is targeted to launch in autumn 2018.
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- Class of PCB's causes developmental abnormalities in rat pups
04-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists have determined that a specific class of PCB causes significant developmental abnormalities in rat pups whose mothers were exposed to the toxicant in their food during pregnancy and during the early weeks when the pups were nursing.
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- Panel offers guidelines on skin reactions to new class of cancer drugs
05-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Skin reactions to a powerful new class of anti-cancer drugs are frequent, but manageable through a simple and rational treatment approach -- usually without the need to reduce the dose or interrupt treatment with potentially life-prolonging chemotherapy, according to an article in the May issue of "The Oncologist."
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- Identical twins graduate with identical first class degrees
06-27-2007 · University of Bath
Identical twins who achieved exactly the same A-level results both graduated with first class biochemistry degrees from the University of Bath today.
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- Brookhaven Physics Leaders Satoshi Ozaki and Michael Harrison Receive IEEE's Particle Accelerator Science & Technology Award
08-03-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
Satoshi Ozaki and Michael Harrison, physicist-administrators at Brookhaven who led the decade-long development and construction of the Laboratory's world-class particle accelerator, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), were awarded the 2007 Particle Accelerator Science & Technology Award.
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