Officeworks has today claimed the title as the first Australian retailer to sell a 3D Printer in stores. The Cube 3D Printer, described as a “must have item”, will retail in 21 selected Officeworks stores across the country for ...
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Having grown into the world’s factory through an abundance of cheap labor, China is now rushing to introduce industrial robots in response to rising wages and a worker shortage created by its one-child policy. The casting industry ...
To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated into bodies of core, mantle, and crust. ...
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Snowpack west of the Continental Divide is looking bleak. However, the east side of the divide has snowpack at or above average, better than it has in years. According to reports by the USDA’s Natural Resources and Conservation ...
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Images gathered by University of Oregon scientists using seismic waves penetrating to a depth of 300 kilometers (almost 200 miles) report the discovery of an anomaly that likely is the volcanic mantle plume of the Galapagos Islands. It's ...
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There are many industries which make use of stainless steel hardware in several departments and sectors. This material enjoys extremely high goodwill all over the world. It is not a surprise that people call it a metal which is the father ...
The Malaysia Kitchen Program USA under the Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), has newly appointed Christina Arokiasamy as Malaysia's Food Ambassador to the U.S. As a spice expert and acclaimed cookbook author, ...
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Users from Northwestern University, working with the Center for Nanoscale Materials EMMD Group at Argonne, have demonstrated the first growth of graphene on a silver substrate. Unique wave-like electron scattering at the edges of the ...
Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces ...
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Devastating supervolcanoes can erupt simply due to changes that happen in their giant magma chambers as they slowly cool, according to a new study. This finding marks the first time researchers have been able to explain the mechanism behind ...
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Scientists studying the atmosphere above Barrow, Alaska, have discovered unprecedented levels of molecular chlorine in the air, a new study reports. Molecular chlorine, from sea salt released by melting sea ice, reacts with sunlight to ...
Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest single contributors to world sea-level rise, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimetre (0.4 inches) to ocean levels in 20 years, a study said Sunday. The glacier ...
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The bitter chill gripping North America is a result of Arctic air that has spilled southwards, and global warming may be a cause, an expert said on Monday. Arctic air is normally penned in at the roof of the world by a powerful circular ...
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Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now if not for life, instead becoming a planet covered nearly entirely in ocean. If not for life, Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now, instead becoming a planet ...
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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Transportation -- A patent application by the inventors Ogawa, Takayuki (Yokohama-shi, JP); Nishi, Mizuki (Matsusaka-shi, JP); Furuhashi, Kazunori (Matsusaka, JP), filed on March 2, 2012, ...
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