Applied Physics
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17 years ago, September 26, 1991, 8 brave souls locked themselves inside a sealed dome to simulate what it would be like to live in an artificial closed ecological system.
It was called Biosphere 2 (the original 'biosphere' being Ma Earth here) and was made in Oracle, Arizona by Space Biosphere Ventures.
The idea was to learn about ecology but it ended up being about anthropology as well - as fellow Scientific Blogging scribe Jane Poynter says, they discovered that even in tiny groups, and much as they might have protested the notion in advance, they broke into factions.
Who would choose to…
Nothing says fun to physicists and mathematicians like baseball - it's the perfect sport for the numbers-oriented crowd, and because it's the only game where the defense has the ball, it's ideally suited for the rebel mentality.
With baseball playoffs heating up and the World Series right around the corner, it's guaranteed that fans will see daring slides, both feet-first and head-first, and even slides on bang-bang plays at first. But the eternal question has always been, who gets there faster, the head-first slider or the feet-first?
The heads first player, says David A. Peters, Ph.D.,…
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LONDON, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --
Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Sperry Marine business unit has been selected by Novorossiysk Shipping Company (Novoship) to supply integrated bridge systems (IBS) for ten new tankers being built in Korea and China.
The newbuilds include four 112,000 deadweight ton (dwt) tankers at Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea and six 156,000 dwt tankers at Nantong Rongsheng in China, for delivery in 2008-2009. Each of the ships is being fitted with a complete navigation suite that includes radars, electronic chart display and information system, digital…
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SAN MATEO, California and COLOGNE, Germany, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --
- Bizanga to Integrate eco's Certified Senders Alliance Whitelist and Make it Available to its Growing Installed Base
ECO, the association of German Internet enterprises, and Bizanga, provider of the world's leading email and message management platform, have today reached an agreement to collaborate on an initiative for sharing a common repository of information between ISPs in order to combat spam effectively without affecting the transmission of legitimate e-mails. In addition, Bizanga will integrate the eco…
MIT researchers have designed a new robotic underwater vehicle that can hover in place like a helicopter — an invaluable tool for deepwater oil explorers, marine archaeologists, oceanographers and others.
The new craft, called Odyssey IV, is the latest in a series of small, inexpensive artificially intelligent submarines developed over the last two decades by the MIT Sea Grant College Program’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory. The Odyssey series revolutionized underwater research in the 1990s by introducing the thrifty and highly capable underwater robots. But the previous Odyssey…
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LONDON, September 24 /PRNewswire/ --
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is introducing a new family of multisensor marine speed log products at the 2008 SMM maritime technology exhibition in Hamburg, Germany this month.
A photo accompanying this release is available at: http://media.primezone.com/noc/
The NAVIKNOT 600 series of products, which are being marketed under the Sperry Marine brand, are based on a new satellite speed sensor that yields dual axis speed over ground.
The satellite speed log can serve as a standalone device or be integrated with a single-axis electromagnetic or…
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PARIS, September 24 /PRNewswire/ --
- New customers, partners represent Jaspersoft's growth throughout Europe; company opens fifth European office in Paris
Jaspersoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI) and the world's most widely deployed BI software, today announced a number of milestones representing its commercial success and increasing priority on the European market. Recent customer deployments include EnergySys Limited, INTECO and La SACEM, contributing to over 200 percent growth in subscriptions for Jaspersoft's Professional Edition products in…
As a car accelerates up and down a hill then slows to follow a hairpin turn, the airflow around it cannot keep up and detaches from the vehicle. This aerodynamic separation creates additional drag that slows the car and forces the engine to work harder. The same phenomenon affects airplanes, boats, submarines, and even your golf ball.
In work that could lead to ways of controlling the effect with potential impacts on fuel efficiency and more, MIT scientists and colleagues report new mathematical and experimental work for predicting where that aerodynamic separation will occur.
The…
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ARNHEM, The Netherlands, September 24 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design, engineering and management services company, announced today that it has won several large infrastructure projects in Poland, with a total value for the company of approximately EUR 20 million. It concerns two road contracts, and two rail assignments. Up until 2013, Poland, supported by European Union funding, plans to invest approximately EUR28 billion in road and rail infrastructure.
The road projects relate to 135 km of the S19 express road, the main thoroughfare for…
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AUBURN HILLS, Michigan, September 23 /PRNewswire/ --
- Company Introduces Three Advanced Electric-Drive Vehicle Prototypes
Actions speak louder than words.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080923/CLTU074-a ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080923/CLTU074-b ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080923/CLTU074-c ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080923/CLTU074-d ) -- One targeted to be produced in 2010 for consumers in North American markets, and European markets after 2010 -- Chrysler LLC to have approximately one hundred electric vehicles on…