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Drilling Down Into MarsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2010 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2010 A catalogue of places on Earth where one can find Mars-like conditions might include Antarctica's Dry Valleys, Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, the hyper-acidic Rio Tinto in Spain, and Chile's bone-dry Atacama Desert. But it probably wouldn't include Brooklyn. And yet it's in Brooklyn where, in an otherwise unexceptional warehouse, Honeybee Robotics has installed a massive stainless steel chamber whose interior environment can be made more Mars-like than mo ... read more |
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Corvallis OR (SPX) May 28, 2010Researchers at Oregon State University have made an important fundamental advance in robotics, in work that should lead toward robots that not only can walk and run effectively, but use little energy in the process. By achieving an optimal approach with robotic mechanisms, studies are moving closer to robots that could take on dangerous missions in the military, create prosthetic limbs for ... more  
Galliano, Louisiana (AFP) May 31, 2010Dozens of species of fish including one just discovered six months ago, could be wiped out by the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that has been spewing crude into the sea for six weeks, a scientist said Monday. "We may very well lose dozens of vulnerable fish species," Prosanta Chakrabarty, a fish scientist at Louisiana State University, told AFP by email. "Currently there are no ... more  
Galliano, Louisiana (AFP) May 31, 2010BP officials warned Monday they may not be able to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil leak until August as Louisiana residents warned the spill would wipe out their way of life. "Drilling relief wells is still seen as the best solution," but they will not be onstream for at least eight weeks, BP spokesman John Currie told AFP, as US officials warned the spill is now the worst environmental disaster ... more |
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'Top kill' failure deals blow to oil spill weary LouisianansGrand Isle, Louisiana (AFP) May 30, 2010 With the failure of "top kill", BP's latest attempt to stop oil spewing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, residents of this last inhabited barrier island in Louisiana braced for slick-related problems for awhile to come. "It took 30 days for the oil to reach Grand Isle once the leak started," said Mark Becnel as he ate dinner at the Starfish restaurant on Grand Isle, where fishing, tourism and oil are the lifeblood of the people. "Even once they've shut off the leak, it'll be another ... read more |
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