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Increases in carbon dioxide emissions will prevent us from experiencing the next Ice Age, which experts believe would have occurred within the next millennium, according to research published in this week's edition of the journal Nature Geoscience. An international team of scientists examined variations in the Earth's orbit, as well as global weather and climate patterns, determining that the next worldwide deep-freeze should begin within the next 1,500 years, the Telegraph reported on...
One of the 21st century’s most brilliant public figures Stephen Hawking has recently placed an advertisement on his website for a personal assistant at a starting salary of around $40,000. The 69-year old professor at Cambridge University says he is not looking for a fellow physicist, just someone with technical savvy to help him with diverse tasks. Professor Hawking, whose work in theoretical physics, cosmology, and quantum gravity have established him as one of the century’s most...
MRS Communications apps are now available for the iPad, iPhone, and Android. The newest journal serving the materials research world comes in multiple electronic formats, offering digital editions of journal issues for all the leading mobile devices. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 13, 2011 MRS Communications apps are now available for the iPad, iPhone, and Android. The newest journal serving the materials research world comes in multiple electronic formats, offering digital editions of...
The Milky Way galaxy continues to devour its small neighboring dwarf galaxies and the evidence is spread out across the sky. A team of astronomers led by Sergey Koposov and Vasily Belokurov of Cambridge University recently discovered two streams of stars in the Southern Galactic hemisphere that were torn off the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. This discovery came from analyzing data from the latest Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) and was announced in a paper released today that connects...
BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE), a global provider of biometrics and medical imaging software, today announced that it has supplied Cambridge Assessment, the University of Cambridge's international exams group, with a biometric verification solution based on its COTS Biometric Services Platform (BioSP(TM)) and user interface development services. The advanced solution forms the basis of 'Identica,' which is part of Cambridge Assessment's exam...
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy Corporation, an HP Company, today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Mike Lynch, has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution to UK IT Award at the UK IT Industry Awards 2011, held at a ceremony in London last night. The UK IT Industry Awards, presented by the British Computer Society (BCS), the Chartered Institute for IT, in association with Computing magazine, represent the benchmark for...
A Cambridge University professor and one of Britain’s top ocean experts says that Arctic sea ice could melt away entirely by 2015, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday. Although the ice would reappear again every winter, its absence during the peak of summer would deprive polar bears of their summer hunting ground, which could put them at risk of extinction, said Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University. The vast mass of sea ice between northern Russia, Canada and Greenland waxes...
BATH, England, November 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IPL, an IT services company specialising in Business Intelligence [http://www.ipl.com/papers/Business intelligence in a cold climate.pdf ] (BI) and Information Management [http://www.ipl.com/markets/bankingandfinance/information-management.php ] (IM), will be attending the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (DW&BI) Conference in November. The conference will be held at the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, in London from...
Scientists and engineers from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford are launching a gigantic helium balloon to investigate the feasibility of climate engineering. The balloon is being launched in October and will investigate the engineering challenges posed by such a project. The university scientists will also be working with Marshall Aerospace on the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) project. The 65-foot long balloon will rise 12...
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambridge University Press and ecch (The European Case Clearing House) are among a global group of partners who have just signed deals to present their world-class content to college and graduate school faculty users of AcademicPub(TM), the higher education unit of SharedBook Inc. Cambridge University Press, a unit of Cambridge University in the United Kingdom (UK), publishes some of the finest academic and educational writing from around the world....
