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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:12:49 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: "Fantastic Voyage" Not So Far-fetched
"Fantastic Voyage" Not So Far-fetched
A new paper published in the May 2009 issue of the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States, Scientific American, asks readers to imagine producing vehicles so small they would be about the size of a molecule and powered by engines that run on sugar. To top it off, a penny would buy a million of them.
The concept is nearly unthinkable, but it's exactly the kind of thing occupying National Science Foundation supported researchers at Penn State and Rice ...
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:57:05 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Fire is an Important and Under-Appreciated Part of Global Climate Change
Fire is an Important and Under-Appreciated Part of Global Climate Change
Fire must be accounted for as an integral part of climate change, according to 22 authors of an article published in the April 24 issue of the journal Science. The authors determined that intentional deforestation fires alone contribute up to one-fifth of the human-caused increase in emissions of carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas that increases global temperature.
The work is the culmination of a meeting supported by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and the ...
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:42:12 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research
National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced it has awarded nearly $5 million in grants to 14 universities through its Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program to participate in the IBM/Google Cloud Computing University Initiative. The initiative will provide the computing infrastructure for leading-edge research projects that could help us better understand our planet, our bodies, and pursue the limits of the World Wide Web.
In 2007, IBM and Google announced a joint university ...
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