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 Science, November 16, 2007PDF | English | 27.1 MB
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A collection of undersea robots and ocean-observing platforms monitor upwelling during the 2003 Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network program in Monterey Bay, California.
A Robotic Future
Technology and automation have provided a huge number of labor-saving devices and have at times relieved humans from having to do monotonous and dangerous jobs such as painting sheet metal or cleaning oil pipelines. However, there are times when one really needs to interact with another human being, and at these times, the automated "customer service" or banking machine is a poor substitute for a human.
Hurricane Katrina's Carbon Footprint on U.S. Gulf Coast Forests
Hurricane Katrina killed or damaged about 320 million large trees, representing a loss of about 105 teragrams of stored carbon.
The Genomic Landscapes of Human Breast and Colorectal Cancers
Tumor growth seems to be driven by many genes mutated at low frequencies, most of which act through well-known signaling pathways.
Orbital Reconstruction and Covalent Bonding at an Oxide Interface
A charge transfer from Mn atoms in an oxide layer to Cu atoms in a superconductor layer changes the orbital configuration of the Cu atoms and the properties of the layered structure.
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