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Smart-1: Smackdown In Moon's 'Lake Of Excellence'
The European Space Agency's Smart-1 mission ends on September 3, 2006. Appropriately for such a successful mission, its final resting place will be an area of the Moon known as the "Lake of Excellence."During its 3-year lifespan, Europe's first mission to the Moon has advanced both lunar science and the technology that underpins it. Library Use Value Calculator
Use this online form to estimate the value of the library services you use each month. Services listed include materials borrowed (books, movies, audio books, museum passes), magazines used in library, interlibrary loan, children's programs attended, computer use, reference questions, and more. From the Maine State Library. Everything Valentine's
"Looking for Valentine's Day gifts, cards, and treats for the classroom, spouses, or little Cupids in your life? Here are 100s of easy-to-do ideas for the sweetest Valentine's Day ever."Includes illustrated instructions. From FamilyFun magazine. Dinosaur To Birds: Height Or Flight?
Paleontologists have long theorized that miniaturization was one of the last stages in the long series of changes required in order for dinosaurs to make the evolutionary "leap"to take flight and so become what we call birds. New evidence from a tiny Mongolian dinosaur, however, may leave some current theories about the evolution of flight up in the air. Glory Restored: The Spruce Goose Finds a Home
Archive of news articles and feature stories about the 2000 move of aviator Howard Hughes' HK-1 Flying Boat (the "Spruce Goose") to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. Provides history of the aircraft, details about its journey to the museum, many photos, and related material. From the News-Register, based in McMinnville. Teens and Technology: Youth Are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wire
This July 2005 report finds that the "number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24%in the past four years and 87%of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online,"and that "the variety of technologies that teens use to support their communication, research, and entertainment desires has grown."Includes the text of the report and the underlying questionnaire. From the Pew Internet &American Life Project. Mothers'Second-hand Smoke Exposure Linked To Psychological Problems Fo
Children whose mothers were exposed to second-hand smoke while they were pregnant have more symptoms of serious psychological problems compared to the offspring of women who had no prenatal exposure to smoke, according to a new study. Duke Chemists Isolating Individual Molecules Of Toxic Protein In Alzhe
To understand the formation of the brain-clogging deposits that cause such disorders as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, Duke University chemists have figured out how to capture and "micromanipulate"the single molecular building blocks of the deposits. Ultra-bright Single Photon Source Developed
Important advances have recently been made in high-performance single-photon sources that bring such possibilities closer to reality. In particular, single photons can be used to implement absolutely secure optical communication, also known as quantum cryptography. With this new source, recording a single-photon signature that took eight hours five years back can now be achieved on a millisecond time scale. This remarkable progress was achieved by developing a novel type of microcavity structure which strongly enhances the light extraction from the optically active material. Everything I Need to Know About (Real) Robots I Learned From Transform
Transformers don’t care about people, period. That's what I learned growing up in the 1980s, religiously watching a race of robot Titans from outer space wage a secret war on Earth.
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