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Dr. Ken Yeang – The Man Who Greens The High-RiseDr. Ken Yeang, a Malaysian architect and ecologist who has been designing ecological, bioclimatic and energy efficient architecture for 40 years. Beginning his architectural practice in l974, Yeang designed large scale projects, skyscrapers, and ecomasterplanning and wrote books on ...
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'Cloud ship' scheme to deflect the sun's rays is favourite to cut global warming - Telegraph'Cloud ship' scheme to deflect the sun's rays is favourite to cut global warming Ships with giant funnels which travel the world's seas creating more clouds to deflect the sun's rays could help cut global warming, say scientists. Published: 7:58AM BST 07 Aug 2009 The "cloud ships" are ...
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Nokia Prototype Generates Power from Ambient RadiationNokia Prototype Generates Power from Ambient Radiation Shane McGlaun June 10, 2009 1:03 PM Future Nokia devices may charge batteries without needing an AC outlet Markku Rouvala, a researcher from the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge, U.K., and a group of researchers are working ...
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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: How to Use Pulsars for Interstellar NavigationThe Global Position System has revolutionised navigation on Earth. It consists of a network of satellites that each broadcast a time signal. A receiver on Earth can then work out its position in three-dimensional space by comparing the arrival times of the signals from at least three satellites. ...
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Hal, Call Your Office - Computers That Act Like Physicists - NYTimes.comTheoretical physicists are not yet obsolete, but scientists have taken a couple of steps toward replacing themselves. In an article in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, two Cornell scientists describe a computer program that sifts raw and imperfect data to uncover fundamental laws of ...
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Film review: The Age of Stupid - opinion - 14 March 2009 - New ScientistThe Age of Stupid directed by Franny Armstrong . UK cinema release 20 March/US release September NO ONE likes being preached to, which doesn't bode well for any film on climate change. The latest offering is the part sci-fi movie, part-documentary The Age of Stupid . Set in 2055 on a ...
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How to survive the coming century - environment - 25 February 2009 - New ScientistALLIGATORS basking off the English coast; a vast Brazilian desert; the mythical lost cities of Saigon, New Orleans, Venice and Mumbai; and 90 per cent of humanity vanished. Welcome to the world warmed by 4 °C. Clearly this is a vision of the future that no one wants, but it might happen. ...
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Unnatural selection: Robots start to evolve - tech - 04 February 2009 - New ScientistLIVING creatures took millions of years to evolve from amphibians to four-legged mammals - with larger, more complex brains to match. Now an evolving robot has performed a similar trick in hours, thanks to a software "brain" that automatically grows in size and complexity as its physical body develops....
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Tests that show machines closing in on human abilities - tech - 22 January 2009 - New ScientistIt may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers striving to produce a machine at least in some respects equal with a human. Nowadays, although UK mathematician Alan Turing's test is still ...
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Pioneers science exhibitionPioneers09, 4 March 2009 - A free showcase science event in London, UK, engineered to bring together forward thinking researchers and business people who have with a passion for innovative science and technology. * An interactive, 'hands-on' exhibition featuring over 20 universities ...Jenny Whitehouse added 10 months ago
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