Location: Berkeley, United States
In a development that brings the promise of mass production to nanoscale devices, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have transformed carbon nanotubes into conveyor belts capable of ferrying atom-sized particles to microscopic...
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Location: Coventry, United Kingdom
Applied robotics research is leading to new applications in agriculture.
Robots are on the march again into the last bastion of labour intensive industry - farming and horticulture. Research engineers and horticulture specialists at the...
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Although metal detectors help commercial food processors keep metal fragments from ending up in finished products, these detectors can't identify plastic and other foreign objects.And as plastic becomes more widespread, used in everything from...
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Location: Colorado , United States
FORT COLLINS--Colorado State University's hurricane forecaster William Gray is maintaining his prediction for a 1999 hurricane season similar to last year's in the Atlantic Basin.
Today's update calls for 14 tropical storms, nine hurricanes and...
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Location: Colorado, United States
FORT COLLINS-Hurricane records since 1900, estimates of damage potential and a theory that a period of more intense hurricane activity may be beginning all contribute to a new statistical model that predicts hurricane landfall probabilities along...
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Location: Chicago, United States
Saltier tropical oceans and fresher ocean waters near the poles are further signs of global warming's impacts on the planet
Tropical ocean waters have become dramatically saltier over the past 40 years, while oceans closer to Earth's poles have...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
San Francisco, Calif. -- About 8,200 years ago, the world climate suddenly got colder and stayed that way for a few hundred years before temperatures returned to normal, according to a team of paleoclimatologists.
"This event, which we are...
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Location: NY, United States
NASA and university astronomers have found evidence that the 11-year sunspot cycle is driven in part by a giant conveyor belt-like, circulating current within the Sun.
The astronomers, Dr. David Hathaway, Robert Wilson and Ed Reichmann of NASA's...
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Location: Columbia, United States
Halt to Gulf Stream and Other Currents Could Freeze Europe; Dublin Would Share Spitsbergen's Icy Climate On the eve of the international meeting on global warming that opens Dec. 1 in Kyoto, Japan, one of the world's leading climate experts warned...
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Location: Washington , United States
When internal waves up to 300 feet first form they cause a mighty churning of ocean waters – something invisible to and unfelt by anyone at the surface.
Now in a novel use of mooring data, some of it three decades old, a University of...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT scientists propose that blood may help us think, in addition to its well-known role as the conveyor of fuel and oxygen to brain cells.
“We hypothesize that blood actively modulates how neurons process information,”...
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Location: Berlin , Germany
EUREKA project E! 2388 LOGCHAIN MUSIC has doubled freight train capacity on the intermodal service Duisburg-Lübeck, which links Norway, Sweden and Finland to Germany and the rest of Europe, through the development of an intermodal conveyor belt....
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Location: Penn State , United States
University Park, Pa. -- Just as in the chicken-and-egg story, geologists have debated which came first: the thickened crust at the Mendocino Triple Junction or the junction itself. Now, using heat flow patterns and numerical modeling, Penn State...
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Location: bonn, Germany
Physicists of the University of Bonn have taken one more important hurdle on the path to what is known as a quantum computer: by using 'laser tweezers' they have succeeded in sorting up to seven atoms and lining them up. The researchers filmed...
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Location: South Island ,Inland Kaikoura Range, New Zealand
The study in the Aug. 6 issue of the journal Nature expands our
understanding of the sources of earthquake failure," says Phil Wannamaker, the
study's main author and a geophysicist at the University of Utah's Energy and
Geoscience...
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Location: Institut für Angewandte Physik,Sekretariat Zimmer 307 ,53115 Bonn, Germany
Let's assume we carried out the following experiment: we put a coin in the
hand of a test person. We'll simply call this person Hans. Hans's task is now to
toss the coin several times. Whenever the coin turns up 'heads', his task is to
take...
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Location: Cincinnati, United States
Equipped with translucent, light-passing belt, AccuVision Internal Backlit
Conveyors use high-intensity LED modules, providing uniform light field for
automatic or manual visual inspection. Light field is available in 6 widths from
2-12...
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Location: Burlington, Canada
Built with 18 x 24 in. cleaning envelope, Wheelabrator® Model 1824 Structural
Pre-Blast Roll Conveyor features wear-resistant manganese blast compartment,
four 10 hp direct drive blast wheels, cast manganese wheel housings, and cast...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
The hard anodised profile of the PDU2 and its corrosion-resistant internal components help it survive regular cleaning.
Hygiene-conscious manufacturers can now make substantial cost-savings on the
labour-intensive process of...
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Location: CA, United States
TGW has enhanced its conveyor system portfolio with the launch of a high-performance accumulation roller conveyor.
The system has been designed to transport a vast array of cartons and totes,
with sizes that range from 150mm x...
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