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Smart Irrigation: A Supercomputer Waters the Lawn

In Silicon Valley the Campbell Union School District 's sprinklers used to dutifully water the soccer fields and gardens at 12 campuses even during spring showers. Temporarily shutting off each of the 45 irrigation control boxes, by hand, wasn't worth the custodians' time.

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Truckin’ Up to Low Earth Orbit–the Shuttle Era Is Go for History, Part 1

"The orbiter is a completely different vehicle than anything that has ever flown in space." It was a work platform, a spacewalk platform, a construction site with a robotic arm, a laboratory, a people mover. It was a complex vehicle operating at the edge of its performance, with very little margin for error," John Shannon, program manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston told Air & Space magazine in March.

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Lindau Nobel Meeting–Shakespeare and Beethoven and buckminsterfullerene for the uninitiated

Can one appreciate the deep beauty of science, without mastering calculus, quantum mechanics or molecular genetics? I reckon the answer is yes, but I know at least one Nobel laureate disagrees with me. Sir Harry Kroto made the following comparison during a tense press conference on Wednesday: "Try to explain the culture and the depth of Shakespeare to someone who does not speak the English language

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Cook breaks course record at Fontainebleau

John Cook shot a 6-under 66 on Sunday and set a tournament course record with a 21-under 195 to win the Montreal Championship by three strokes at the Fontainebleau Golf Club.

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Lindau Nobel Meeting–The future of global health

What can be done about global health? It's the question on everyone's minds following Peter Agre's moving talk on malaria 'without borders' earlier in the week and Christian De Duve handing the baton of all the world's challenges to the young researchers in

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Levet wins French Open by stroke

Thomas Levet shot a 1-under 70 in windy conditions to win the French Open, beating Thorbjorn Olesen and Mark Foster by a stroke Sunday.

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Corbin Mills wins US Amateur Public Links

Clemson's Corbin Mills became the first qualifying medalist to win the U.S. Amateur Public Links in 11 years, holing a 5-foot par putt on the 37th hole Saturday to finish off UNLV's Derek Ernst.

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UCLA’s Do wins Women’s Public Links

UCLA's Brianna Do won the Women's U.S. Amateur Public Links on Saturday, rallying to beat Texas high school star Marissa Dodd 1-up in the 36-hole final on Bandon Dunes' Old Macdonald course.

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