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Games Consoles ‘Not Green Enough’
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not doing enough to eliminate potentially harmful chemicals and metals from their games consoles, Greenpeace has said.
The body examined materials used inside the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. Greenpeace said that while all three machines complied with European laws, the consoles still contained harmful […]
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Vast Cracks Appear in Arctic Ice
Dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap has emerged from research during an expedition by the Canadian military.
Scientists travelling with the troops found major new fractures during an assessment of the state of giant ice shelves in Canada’s far north. The team found a network of cracks that stretched for more […]
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Satellite Catches a Star Going ‘Kaboom!’
When a gigantic star blows up, astronomers call it a “supernova.” Over the past 100 years, astronomers have observed thousands of these explosions. But in every case, they were seeing the star after the explosion took place. They were seeing the hot debris from the explosion racing outward. It would be like seeing fireworks a […]
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Researchers Make First Automated Surgery Milestones
by Shane McGlaun - DailyTech.com
Rudimentary robot was able to perform simple surgical procedures without human assistance.
Doctors and surgeons already make use of some types of robots to perform procedures where the precision of the operation required is often more than a human can consistently offer. Some researchers say that the day when these robots can […]
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Victorian ‘Supercomputer’ is Reborn
by Maggie Shiels - BBC News
The world of computing could have been very different to that of today had a machine that was designed over 150 years ago been built at the time.
That is the view of Doron Swade, the man who is behind realising the creation of the famed Difference Engine No 2 which […]
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Secrets Of Massive Black Hole Unveiled: Workings Of Giant Galactic Particle Accelerators Discovered
by ScienceDaily
At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of astrophysics. The leading theory says the particles are accelerated by tightly-twisted magnetic fields close to the black hole, but confirming […]
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