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December 2, 2005
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Tiny swimmer makes a splash - PhysicsWeb Left: Swimming competition Physicists in Israel have designed a tiny swimming robot that could help to answer fundamental questions in biology and may also have applications in medical nanotechnology. The "micro-swimmer" also outperforms, in theory, other man-made swimmers and simple biological organisms (New Journal of Physics 7 234). |
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SpaceDev Orders SpaceX Falcon Launch Vehicle - SpaceDaily SpaceDev has signed a contract with SpaceX to purchase specified launch services on a Falcon I launch vehicle. The launch vehicle is planned for multiple primary microsatellite payloads and multiple secondary nanosatellite payloads produced by SpaceDev or other suppliers. SpaceDev has tentatively scheduled the first launch for May 2008, with additional optional launches to follow. "SpaceDev considers the Falcon I launch vehicle, which is capable of delivering more than 600kg (1300 pounds) to low earth orbit, to be one of the most cost-effective ($4,500 per pound) domestic launch vehicles currently available. SpaceDev's success in obtaining contracts to develop microsats and to conduct feasibility studies for multiple microsats and nanosats, as well as research commissioned by the California Space Authority, indicate that the demand for SpaceDev's type of low cost high performance space vehicles is increasing." |
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Bush Aide Hints At US Targets On Greenhouse Gas Emissions - SpaceDaily US President George W. Bush's top environmental adviser hinted Tuesday that Washington could be ready to agree to voluntary targets on greenhouse gas emissions. "I don't discount targets, I don't discount voluntary partnership measures," James Connaughton told BBC radio during a visit to London ahead of a major UN environmental conference in Montreal that opens next Monday. Connaughton said his view reflected a shift by other members of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations, rather than a U-turn by the United States which never adopted the Kyoto protocol on limiting greenhouse gas emissions. |
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Biosciences:
12/2/2005: South Korea Supports Cloner - Wired News
12/2/2005: Scientists Link Genetic Pathway to Development of Hearing ... - FirstScience
12/2/2005: Panda cub takes Washington by storm - MSNBC
12/2/2005: Males can drive species decline
-
Nature
12/2/2005: Secrets of bee flight revealed - New
Scientist
Climate, Environment:
12/2/2005: Bush Aide Hints At US Targets On Greenhouse Gas Emissions - SpaceDaily
12/2/2005: Water Shortage Socks North Carolina - Wired News
12/2/2005: U.N. Climate Conference to Open in Canada ... - L. A. Times
12/2/2005: Action urged on illegal timber ... - L. A. Times
12/2/2005: Poachers could turn coral atolls into a marine desert ... - FirstScience
12/2/2005: CO2: This time it's personal -
BBC
12/2/2005: Sands of
time: The Kalahari desert is expanding (Video) -
BBC
12/2/2005: Summit seeks climate solutions -
BBC
12/2/2005: Climate meeting to discuss 'son of Kyoto' - New
Scientist
12/2/2005: Hurricane season refuses to blow over - New
Scientist
Computers:
Devices
12/2/2005: Addictive Dragon Quest Awes - Wired News
12/2/2005: IPods Top Jukeboxes, DJs - Wired News
12/2/2005: U.S. Developers Talk Revolution - Wired News
12/2/2005: After Tetris, Hexic - Business
Week
12/2/2005: • Air Force Commissions 'Wargame Maker' - Business
Week
12/2/2005: • Ridge Racer 6 - Business
Week
12/2/2005: Banking on virtual economy - C/Net
12/2/2005: Group labels 10 most violent games
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Smash my Xbox 360
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Are we on the verge of a gaming
crash? - NY
Times
12/2/2005: Nintendo makes its Wi-Fi move - Seattle
Times
12/2/2005: Run your own studio in 'The Movies' - CNN
12/2/2005: It's both a gadget and a garment - CNN
Communications
12/2/2005: 3G Hell, Italian Style - Wired News
12/2/2005: Search Technology Comes to the Camera Phone - Wired News
12/2/2005: Home broadband sign-ups 'soar' -
BBC
12/2/2005: 3G industry optimistic for 2006 -
BBC
12/2/2005: Public Enemy's New Wireless Order - Business
Week
12/2/2005: VoIP
Providers: Heeding the Call? - Business
Week
12/2/2005: TI's new 3G chip to cut handset prices
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Net phone operators reach E911 deadline
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Internet phones might get hung up over 911 - CNN
Technology
PC's
Internet
12/2/2005: Wall Street agog over Google - C/Net
12/2/2005: Chart: What a share gets you - C/Net
12/2/2005: Hello, this is Google, your operator, speaking - C/Net
12/2/2005: Loans for rural Internet hard to get
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: US net body challenged over .com -
BBC
12/2/2005: 7 figures for single-digit domain names - CNN
Miscellaneous
12/2/2005: Inside Symantec's security bunker
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Photos: In the bunker
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Kazaa to install anti-piracy tool -
BBC
12/2/2005: Young 'prefer illegal song swaps' -
BBC
12/2/2005: Spitzer's on Sony BMG's Case - Business
Week
12/2/2005: Newsmaker: Baking privacy into personal data
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Taste for illegal tunes strong for Europe's youth
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Scrapbooking goes digital - CNN
Energy:
12/2/2005: China Adjusts Vehicle Tax - Wired News
12/2/2005: Nuclear protest hits Blair speech -
BBC
12/2/2005: Have Your Say: Should we make more use of nuclear
power? -
BBC
Health:
Cardiovascular
Cancer
12/2/2005: Scientists Determine How Tumor Gene Controls Growth ... - FirstScience
Infectious
12/2/2005: Raising
awareness: What group of diseases does Aids refer to? -
BBC
12/2/2005: Report identifies obstacles for AIDS treatment plan
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Nature
Non-Infectious
12/2/2005: Pollutants link to diabetes risk -
BBC
12/2/2005: Obese teens' liver damage warning -
BBC
12/2/2005: Diabetes theory over salt death -
BBC
12/2/2005: Anti-smoking drug may cut crystal meth craving - New
Scientist
Miscellaneous
12/2/2005: Simply the
best: A look at what the UK could learn from the Swedish health system -
BBC
12/2/2005: Patients lose Vioxx legal appeal -
BBC
12/2/2005: Obesity stops jabs hitting target -
BBC
12/2/2005: Everyone’s eyes are wired differently - MSNBC
12/2/2005: Mind trick 'whittles the waist'
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Nature
12/2/2005: Will a pastry a day keep the doctor
away? - New
Scientist
History, Anthropology:
12/2/2005: Scientists Probe Lewis & Clark Encampment ... - FirstScience
12/2/2005: Illinois Yields Bounty of Mastodons and Mammoths ... - Live Science
12/2/2005: Prehistoric farm villages found in Greece - MSNBC
Miscellaneous:
12/2/2005: Can Satellites ID CIA
Prisons? - Wired News
12/2/2005: Ex-Green Party Member to Challenge Clinton ... - Live Sciences
12/2/2005: Ex-BHP chief in running for science role ... - Live Science
12/2/2005: Perspectives: Fuzzy logic behind Bush's cybercrime treaty
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Explore the
'stans': Central Asia explained in maps, facts and figures -
BBC
12/2/2005: Science 'must teach experiments' -
BBC
12/2/2005: • Info Tech Stocks Worth Downloading - Business
Week
12/2/2005: Perspective: Massachusetts assaults monoculture
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: Limbaugh video heads to iPods - C/Net
12/2/2005: Technology pushing political films to forefront - CNN
12/2/2005: Japanese held over fake news site - CNN
12/2/2005: Cosmic
Log: Santa-tracking season - MSNBC
12/2/2005: Air guitarists’ rock dreams come true - New
Scientist
12/2/2005: A farewell to nuclear arms in the
UK? - New
Scientist
Neurosciences:
12/2/2005: Romantic love 'lasts just a year' -
BBC
12/2/2005: Disorder ruining parents' sleep -
BBC
12/2/2005: Infant mental checks needed -
BBC
12/2/2005: Feeling fat can be 'in the mind' -
BBC
Physics and Astronomy:
Prolongevity
Robotics:
Space:
12/2/2005: SpaceDev Orders SpaceX Falcon Launch Vehicle - SpaceDaily
12/2/2005: Asteroid probe to start journey home ... - FirstScience
12/2/2005: Hong
Kong can contribute to nation's space mission ... - FirstScience
12/2/2005: Chinese astronauts tour Hong Kong Disneyland, mingle with Buzz Lightyear(Updated 05-48 p.m.) ... - FirstScience
12/2/2005: China Hopes To Men On The Moon in 15 Years ... - FirstScience
12/2/2005: UK space expertise 'on the line' -
BBC
12/2/2005: NASA criticised over space station management - New
Scientist
12/2/2005: Cassini snapshot reveals Saturn's volcanic moon - New
Scientist
12/2/2005: Thruster problem may scupper Hayabusa's return to Earth - New
Scientist
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Technology:
12/2/2005: Tiny swimmer makes a splash - PhysicsWeb
12/2/2005: The CueCat Is Back - Wired News
12/2/2005: Bose Suspension Takes on Potholes - Wired News
12/2/2005: Turner Entertainment Turns to Holographic Storage - Wired News
12/2/2005: Cost questions dog Blu-ray DVD - C/Net
12/2/2005: Scientists embrace technology for cyberhugs
- NY
Times
12/2/2005: New DVDs to use old video format - C/Net
12/2/2005: What's the
buzz? Teens can't stand it - NY
Times
12/2/2005: Don't put another dime in the jukebox - CNN
12/2/2005: Seagate, Sony up ante in 1-in. hard disk drive market - El.
Engr. Times
12/2/2005: NanoDynamics to commercialize nano technologies - El.
Engr. Times
12/2/2005: Samsung claims to have flexible 7-inch LCD - El.
Engr. Times
12/2/2005: Researchers develop hybrid silicon laser - El.
Engr. Times
12/2/2005: Invention: Hot-air plane - New
Scientist