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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:11:51 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Metals Shape Up with a Little Help from Friends
Metals Shape Up with a Little Help from Friends
For 5,000 years the only way to shape metal has been by the "heat and beat" technique. Even with modern nanotechnology, metalworking involves carving metals with electron beams or etching them with acid.
Now Cornell researchers have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex configurations with structural details about 100 times smaller than a bacterial cell by guiding metal particles into the desired form using soft polymers.
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:27:44 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Despite Frustrations, Americans Are Pretty Darned Happy
Despite Frustrations, Americans Are Pretty Darned Happy
We're number 16 ... in world happiness. Feel the joy.
The United States ranks ahead of more than 80 countries, but below 15 others in happiness levels, according to new World Values Survey data released in the July issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
The World Values Survey (WVS) is the work of a global network of social scientists who perform periodic surveys addressing a number of issues. The latest surveys, taken in the United States and in ...
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:36:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Lasers, Software and the Devil's Slide
Lasers, Software and the Devil's Slide
Running for more than 1,000 kilometers along picturesque coastline, California's Highway 1 is easy prey for many of the natural hazards plaguing the region, including landslides.
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is currently building a kilometer-long tunnel to bypass one of the most landslide-prone stretches of the highway, the Devil's Slide, to help ensure drivers' safe passage.
Using a new software package developed by researchers at Virginia Tech in ...
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