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ESG Product Brief: HP 3PAR Storage - Extending Tier 1 Storage Choice
Check out this white paper to learn what top tier storage means today. In addition to performance and reliability, you'll have to start worrying about power, flexibility, and ease of use.
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School to build world's highest-res 'holodeck' facility
With the help of a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Stony Brook University will build what they call a "Reality Deck" capable of providing visitors with 1.25 billion pixels...
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Microsoft, NSF team to provide research in the cloud
Microsoft and the National Science Foundation announced on February 4 that they are teaming to provide NSF-selected researchers with free cloud computing resources built around Microsoft's Windows...
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Explosive deep-ocean volcano (photos)
Scientists funded by NOAA and the NSF explore and analyze volcanoes erupting at 4,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean.
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Forget the cockroach, jellyfish shall inherit the planet
If global warming increases the surface area covered by ocean as predicted, jellyfish may ride the waves of the future. Not those landlubber cockroaches. There's a new summary put together by...
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Firefly satellite will study thunderstorms
The Firefly mission is the second project under the new U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CubeSat program. The goal of this program is to provide a low cost access to space research. Firefly...
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HP, Intel, Yahoo join NSF, schools for global cloud research
Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo will join universities and the National Science Foundation to launch a "global collaboration" into researching and experimenting with cloud computing, the...
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Laser-aided software for tunnel construction
If you ever have cruised on California's Highway 1, you know it offers spectacular views of the Pacific ocean. But several areas of this road are potentially dangerous because they can be affected...
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Explaining science with drawings
A recent news release from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) mentions a project it helped to fund, 'Picturing to Learn.' For this project, college students have to create pencil drawings to...
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Cooking at the South Pole
In a freely available article, The Wall Street Journal reveals how chefs cook at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. You might find surprising to find such a post here, but cooking at the South...
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Parsing the federal budget: The tech highlights
President Bush unveiled his $3.1 trillion--yes trillion--fiscal 2009 budget and there are a lot of technology highlights to go around. Whether this budget ever gets approved anywhere near its...
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Foams with good memory for space applications
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently reported that two research teams have developed a new porous foam of an alloy that changes shape when exposed to a magnetic field. The NSF...
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New nanomaterials able to cover large areas
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomanufacturing technique which can be used to produce nanostructures measuring tens of square centimeters. This new technique, dubbed...
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Borexino, the Sun neutrino hunter
An international team of more than 100 researchers has used the huge Borexino detector to detect low-energy solar neutrinos for the first time. These results confirm recent 'theories about the...
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To controversy, NSF taps IBM, U of Illinois for supercomputer
The National Science Foundation has chosen to IBM to help it build the world's fastest supercomputer at a cost of up to $400 million, The New York Times reports. The news of the contract award...
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Bush cuts funding for science education
This is 'competitiveness'? No funding for teacher training, ignoring grades 9-12 and falling appropriations in new budget.
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Two more proposals in underground lab contest
In a contentious process for NSF funding, WA and MN add proposals to operate underground science lab.
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Three IT programs chosen for $1.3m NSF grant
At Olathe district in Kansas, $250,000 grant will fund projects to blend science and tech education.
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Science education needs serious commitment
NSF-created commission emphasizes need for fundamental improvements in US math and science education.
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$2.1mn NSF grant to Boston College's Urban Institute
Grant to develop urban environmental curriculum, texts and multimedia program.
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Bipartisan legislation supports NSF role
President's budget had moved math and science program to Dept. of Ed. Bill approved by committee returns control to NSF.
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