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Mars' soil is like Antarctica's
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped the icy soil of the “Wonderland” area on June 26, confirming that subsurface soil and icy...

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Farm Water Management Software

Friday, July 4th, 2008 - 12:00:29 - Anuradha Menon

A computerized toolkit designed to help drought-affected farmers manage their water resources will be presented at the World Imagine Cup finals in...

New Nano Technique Boosts Boiling Efficiency

Friday, June 27th, 2008 - 18:01:39 - Anuradha Menon

Whoever penned the old adage “a watched pot never boils” surely never tried to heat up water in a pot lined with copper nanorods. Researchers at...

Fire Under Arctic Ice

Friday, June 27th, 2008 - 08:25:26 - Ehud Rattner

A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the...

Ice on Mars Confirmed?

Saturday, June 21st, 2008 - 08:34:55 - Iddo Genuth

Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago...

IBM Aims to Cool Chips With Water

Sunday, June 8th, 2008 - 08:03:08 - Ehud Rattner

A network of tiny pipes of water could be used to cool next-generation PC chips, researchers at IBM have said. Scientists at the firm have shown off...

Nanosponges Could Soak Up Oil Spills

Monday, June 2nd, 2008 - 19:14:32 - Ehud Rattner

Researchers have created a sheet of entwined nanowires that sop up oil but leave water behind. The sponge, which resembles paper, can absorb 20 times...

Robotic Flying Jellyfish
Monday, May 5th, 2008 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Have you ever wondered whether it is possible to glide through the air just as jellyfish swim through water? Scientists at...