Science

LIBYA: How online mapping helped crisis response

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Soon after the Libyan crisis broke, decision-makers and humanitarian workers faced a critical challenge: lack of...

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Supercomputer Simulates Extreme Physics

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Fusion experiments, like this one National Ignition Facility at LLNL, previously required complex and expensive equipment....

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Five New Technologies That Will Change Enterprise Computing

This fall will see the adoption and increased widespread use of new technologies that will alter the way enterprise computing is accomplished. Some of these technologies come from the consumer technology side of the business, some are grown from labs...

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Boeing Delivers Super Hornet Trainers to Royal Australian Air Force

Boeing today announced it has completed delivery of six F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircrew and maintenance trainers to the Royal Australian Air Force at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland.

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Apple iPhone 4 Antenna Works with Bumper: Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports retested the Apple iPhone 4, this time with a “bumper” case on it, and found the bumper fixed the smartphone’s antenna issues. Still, the magazine said it was up to Apple, not consumers, to pay for such a fix.

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NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris

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Faint dust plumes bookend asteroid (596) Scheila, which is overexposed in this composite....

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Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space

Voyager: Humanity's Farthest Journey
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Mission team members discuss the past and future of the...

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Twin dangers: Malnutrition and obesity

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Harvard Global Health Institute Director Sue Goldie, the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public...

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