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Aero-astro team takes first place in competition
05-14-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)A team of MIT students in aeronautics and astronautics has taken first place in the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics' annual Design/Build/Fly competition, ending Oklahoma State's three-year reign.
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12-06-2006 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
A team of Oak Ridge High School students has won first place and $100,000 in the national Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology for their research thesis titled "Linking Supercomputing and Systems Biology for Efficient Bioethanol Production."
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- Bridge work
04-04-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
A team of eight undergraduates in civil and environmental engineering won the award for fastest construction and took second place overall in the regional Steel Bridge Competition held March 16-17 at the University of Connecticut.
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- Aero/astro alum wins Annenberg fellowship
05-08-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The prestigious Annenberg Fellowship has been awarded for the first time to an MIT graduate, Katonio A. Butler. Butler will spend at year at Eton College, where he will act as an American "ambassador" to the 1,300 students, aged 13 to 18.
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- ORHS students' research in national science contest
11-20-2006 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
A team of Three Oak Ridge High School students entered as finalists in a national science competition are explain their work at a seminar Monday night at Oak Ridge's Pollard Auditorium.
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- Discovery heads for KSC landing
12-22-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
After passing on the first opportunity to land Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, NASA's flight control team has given the 'go' to prepare for landing at KSC on the second opportunity. The four-minute deorbit burn took place at 22:26 CET, landing will follow at 23:32 CET (22:32 UT).
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- Victory seals Team Bath's place in play-off final
05-01-2007 · University of Bath
Team Bath FC are one more win away from promotion to the Conference South for the first time in their short history after beating Hemel Hempstead 3-1 in tonight's play-off semi-final.
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- Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor
01-30-2008 · EurekAlert!
New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6,000-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.
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- Stanford engineers shed light on the crash of the USS Macon, last of the 'flying aircraft carriers'
10-18-2006 · EurekAlert!
The 1935 crash of the Navy zeppelin USS Macon off the California coast marked an inglorious end to a unique experiment in aviation. The giant airship was one of only two ''flying aircraft carriers'' ever built, and both went down in the ocean without ever seeing combat. In September 2006, 71 years after the Macon plunged into the Pacific, a team of marine researchers, including Stanford engineers, conducted the first detailed survey of the airship's final resting place.
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- Men achieve creditable 11th place in pentathlon team relay
11-23-2006 · University of Bath
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- Team Bath players help England power to World Champs semis
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