| April 2010 |
Designed to deliver |
| The US navy’s newest warship is built for ferrying Marines to combat zones in safety and, yes, style. |
The USS New York, currently in pre-deployment sea trials, is the US Navy’s newest Landing Platform Dock ship, designed to deliver the Marine Corps to wherever it’s needed. The 700 Marines on... |more| |
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Seatbelts with a surprise |
| The world's first inflatable car seatbelt. |
Michigan-based Key Safety Systems has unveiled the world’s fi rst infl atable car seatbelt, which enhances a traditional three-point shoulder belt with an airbag. When the vehicle detects a... |more| |
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Tangling with pirates |
| Commercial shipping vessels could have a way to defend themselves from pirate attacks. |
Commercial shipping vessels desperate for ways to defend themselves from pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia could soon have a nonlethal way to fight back. The Buccaneer, built... |more| |
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Risks of clicks |
| A snapshot of the best and worst domains for malware. |
Not all URLs are equal when it comes to passing along unwanted malware. Internet security company McAfee mapped the most dangerous domains in a recent report. Here’s a snapshot of the best and... |more| |
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Solo act |
| New forensic analysis shoots a hole in a kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. |
Digital forensic tools have added to the evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman rather than part of a conspiracy to kill President John F Kennedy. Hany Farid, director of the Neukom... |more| |
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R9,2 million in milk money |
| Why is missy the most expensive dairy cow in the world? |
When a trio of investors bought Missy the cow for a record-setting R9,2 million at an auction at Toronto’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, outsiders gained a glimpse into the arcane world of... |more| |
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Faster, lighter space engines |
| Interplanetary travel may await propulsion systems lifted from sci-fi novels. |
Chemical combustion engines are an unbeatable technology for escaping Earth’s atmosphere and gravitational pull. In space, however, these rockets are inefficient – they burn through huge... |more| |
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Shape-shifting beams lead a laser revolution |
| Modern nano- and micro-optics inspire SA-based scientists to a world-leading advance in laser tech |
It’s debatable whether Theodore Maiman could have foreseen his invention being put to uses as diverse as surgery and psychedelic light displays. But there’s no question about the far-reaching... |more| |
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| March 2010 |
Crashing stars resolve a mystery |
| Need more bulk? Steal it from your neighbour |
For almost 50 years, astronomers have puzzled over the youthful appearance of stars known as blue stragglers. These are the timeworn Hollywood starlets of the cosmos: they shine brightly, they are... |more| |
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| February 2010 |
Newsbriefs |
| Reports from the edge of science. |
Power sink efforts to curb the output of global warming gases are taking a toll on the already unimpressive efficiency of coalpower plants. For example, experimental carbon-capture and... |more| |
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