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Breakthrough Mine-Detection Turns Ocean Floor 'Transparent'
February 29, 2004 — Navies worldwide employ a host of mine-detection technologies and techniques, most of them complicated, expensive, and far from perfect. So a simpler, more effective method for detecting these mines, ... > full story -
Rare Disease Endemic In South America Is Model For Studying Autoimmunity
February 19, 2004 — A group of men living amid the gold mines and disappearing jungles of northeastern Colombia, is giving a Medical College of Georgia scientist unprecedented access to study how the wrong combination ... > full story -
This Valentine's Day, Give The Woman Who Has Everything The Galaxy's Largest Diamond
February 14, 2004 — If you really want to impress your favorite lady this Valentine's Day, get her the galaxy's largest diamond. But you'd better carry a deep wallet, because this 10 billion trillion ... > full story -
Chemistry Puts New Sparkle In Diamonds
February 12, 2004 — Diamonds are getting bigger, more colorful and cheaper, thanks to chemistry. A favorite gem at Valentine's Day is getting a makeover with synthetic diamond making processes, according to the Feb. ... > full story -
Scientists Report First Sequencing Of Environmental Genome
February 2, 2004 — In the first triumph of a field dubbed "environmental genomics," scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with the Joint Genome Institute, have for the first ... > full story -
Space Technology Goes Down To Earth To Support Mining
January 2, 2004 — Space exploration and underground mining both take place in extreme environments – so perhaps it is not too surprising that technology developed for one field is now being applied to the ... > full story -
Researchers Probe How Microbes Speed Up Acid Production At Mining Sites
December 12, 2003 — Microbes are everywhere, but when they are in mined soils, they react with the mineral pyrite to speed up acidification of mine run-off water. Scientists have been trying to understand the chemistry ... > full story -
Global Halt To Major Greenhouse Gas Growth
November 26, 2003 — The greenhouse gas, methane, has stopped growing in the global background atmosphere and could begin to decrease, CSIRO researchers ... > full story -
MIT Team Mines For New Materials With A Computer
November 18, 2003 — A computational technique used to predict everything from books that a given customer might like to the function of an unknown protein is now being applied by MIT engineers and colleagues to the ... > full story -
Researchers Use Glass Spheres To Tag And Trace Explosives
November 13, 2003 — In work that may help law enforcement officials better identify terrorists, researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are using glass microspheres -- each about the width of a human hair -- to ... > full story
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