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Field Tests Advance Seismic Landmine-Detection System
March 2, 2004 A landmine-detection system under development at the Georgia Institute of Technology offers potential advantages over existing technologies and could ultimately help prevent the thousands of injuries ... > full story -
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 -
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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
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