http://www.webremixed.info/ Aggregation of tags: education Webremixer http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6449477.html An unmanned yellow submarine of the U.S. Navy is nearing the halfway mark in its effort to travel from New Jersey to Spain to collect scientific data along the way, media reported Monday. It, less than 8 feet (2.4 meters) long and a ... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:13:37 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6449477.html 2008-07-14T02:13:37Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90877/6449472.html Microsoft has finally announced the long-anticipated price drop for the standard 20GB Xbox 360, bringing it down by 50 U.S. dollars to 300 dollars, according to media reports Monday. Also, the new 60GB Xbox 360, identical to the 20G ... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:12:27 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90877/6449472.html 2008-07-14T02:12:27Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/6449337.html A joint proposal by Microsoft and activist investor Carl C. Icahn to buy out Yahoo has been rejected. In a statement issued Saturday night, Yahoo said it had rejected the proposal which was substantially similar to a previous offer ... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:09:34 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/6449337.html 2008-07-14T01:09:34Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6449149.html An opening ceremony of China's first "North Pole University" was held on Sunday aboard the ship Xuelong during China's third scientific expedition to the North Pole. The Principal of the North Pole University Zhang Haisheng, also ch ... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:13:46 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6449149.html 2008-07-14T00:13:46Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6449147.html Using PET scans, U.S. researchers successfully pinpoint and track prostate cancer cells as they spread to the lymph nodes in mice, a method they believe has the potential to improve the way advanced prostate cancer is treated in men. ... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:12:10 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6449147.html 2008-07-14T00:12:10Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6449077.html China's scientific expedition to the North Pole is purely aimed at studies on climate change in the area rather than exploration of natural resources, the expedition's chief scientist said Friday. "The impact of global environmental ... Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:19:07 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6449077.html 2008-07-13T05:19:07Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6449076.html China launched its third scientific expedition to the North Pole on Friday, with a group of110 scientists and logistics staff participating in the 75-day journey on the icebreaker Snow Dragon. The following is a brief history of the ... Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:17:56 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6449076.html 2008-07-13T05:17:56Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90877/6449075.html The launch of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone became an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working. A spokesman for AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the United States, was qu ... Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:17:11 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90877/6449075.html 2008-07-13T05:17:11Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90864/6448833.html Huge crowds of Apple fans Friday lined outside Apple's flagship Store on 5th Avenue in New York as the company rolled out its revamped iPhone 3G. The sequel to the wildly-popular iPhone went on sale at 8 a.m. "I just love th ... Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:20:53 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90864/6448833.html 2008-07-12T01:20:53Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448808.html Educational Testing Service (ETS) has been selected for the second time as the exclusive English assessment partner for China's "21st Century-Lenovo Cup" National English Speaking Competition. The organization's TOEIC (Test of Engli ... Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:51:28 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448808.html 2008-07-12T00:51:28Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6448775.html Russian cosmonauts of the International Space Station (ISS) successfully removed an explosive bolt during an unscheduled six-hour spacewalk, the Mission Control Center said Friday. The ISS Expedition 17 crew -- Sergei Volkov and Ole ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:53:46 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6448775.html 2008-07-11T11:53:46Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6448747.html The words,Olympics and Hi-techs,are becoming more and more frequently appeared together as the information age comes. Our Olympic journalist will take a "hi-tech tour" with you in the newly-opened 2008 Beijing International Media Center (BI ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:46:39 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6448747.html 2008-07-11T09:46:39Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6448680.html Researchers using a vast database to study 11,735 asteroids have discovered that asteroids change shape over time, and they think they know the reason why. Gyula Szabó from the University of Szeged [Hungary] is the lead author of th ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:43:35 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6448680.html 2008-07-11T08:43:35Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6448678.html A silicon device with thousands of slats of tiny mirrors lined up to resemble a jalousie window could speed the efficiency of NASA's next generation space telescope, the Constellation-X Observatory, according to a team of scientists at the ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:42:51 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6448678.html 2008-07-11T08:42:51Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448585.html With hundreds waving goodbye on the dock, an ultra-modern icebreaker left the eastern Shanghai port on Friday morning, marking the start of China's third scientific expedition to the North Pole. At 10 a.m., the National Bureau of Oc ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:56:21 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448585.html 2008-07-11T07:56:21Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448584.html A new compact method utilizing solar concentrators to generate electricity could make solar panels that contain expensive photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity a thing of the past. Solar concentrators can be used ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:55:31 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448584.html 2008-07-11T07:55:31Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6448581.html Crime scene DNA is typically recovered from blood or semen stains, but the DNA that exonerated members of JonBenet Ramsey's family came from invisible skin cells. This so-called "touch DNA" is left behind when people touch things, b ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:54:36 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6448581.html 2008-07-11T07:54:36Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448558.html The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica is clinging to the continent by a disintegrating, slender ice bridge connecting it to Charcot Island and is not expected to survive much longer, scientists announced Thursday. Since the connection ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:31:42 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448558.html 2008-07-11T07:31:42Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6448557.html Fossils of fish with one eye atop its head and another on its side that is most likely an ancestor of modern flat fish -- such as sole, flounder and halibut -- were unearthed more than 200 years ago, but have just recently been brought to l ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:29:24 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6448557.html 2008-07-11T07:29:24Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6448546.html The Mexican Agriculture Ministry said U.S. health authorities have confirmed that Mexican are not the source of the salmonella outbreak in 23 American states, local media reported Thursday. Mexican Agriculture Secretary Alberto Car ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:24:18 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6448546.html 2008-07-11T07:24:18Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6448462.html Two environmental programs in China are generally successful, and key reforms could transform them into a model for the rest of the world, according to research results published this week in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Aca ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:04:36 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6448462.html 2008-07-11T06:04:36Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6448346.html Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building, according to a report by Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The work, appe ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:47:55 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6448346.html 2008-07-11T02:47:55Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6447998.html A galaxy 12.3 billion light years away from the Milky Way, nicknamed "Baby Boom", is seen in this undated handout image released to Reuters July 10, 2008. Telesco ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:35:16 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6447998.html 2008-07-11T01:35:16Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448132.html PARIS -- New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat remote ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:52:24 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6448132.html 2008-07-11T00:52:24Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6448120.html Tiny green and orange glass balls brought back from the moon nearly 40 years ago by astronauts show evidence that water existed there from the very beginning, scientists reported on Wednesday. They used a new method of analyzing elements ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:51:03 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6448120.html 2008-07-11T00:51:03Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90864/6447985.html Apple will roll out its next-generation iPhone on Friday across 22 countries, it was reported on Thursday. Apple aims to position itself as a leading maker of pocket PCs at a pivotal moment in the worldwide smart-phone market, accor ... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:14:53 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90864/6447985.html 2008-07-11T00:14:53Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6447273.html China's third manned spaceship, Shenzhou VII, set to launch in October, reached the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu Province on Thursday, a military source said. The space shuttle was transported to the lau ... Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:52:50 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6447273.html 2008-07-10T08:52:50Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6446237.html According to Xinhua Net, on July 8 the 7th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Language Competition for college students in the world kicked off in Changsha. Held by the Office of Chinese Language Council International, "Chinese Bridge" is an inter ... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:41:40 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6446237.html 2008-07-09T08:41:40Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6446230.html A second sample of Martian soil has been delivered to Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry laboratory, NASA officials said Monday. Data beamed back to Earth on Sunday night confirmed the lander's robotic arm had successfully delivered ... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:37:09 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90876/6446230.html 2008-07-09T08:37:09Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6445935.html Electric, hybrid, LPG, or biofuel-propelled cars... the green car market is booming as more and more people in France and around the world become aware of the adverse effects of fossil fuels on the environment. The situation has bee ... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:57:02 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6445935.html 2008-07-09T07:57:02Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90877/6445205.html Google unveiled a free online service called "Lively" that allows people to embody a cartoonish avatar and have text-based conversations with other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. The new service, announced in a post on the com ... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:53:11 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90877/6445205.html 2008-07-09T06:53:11Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90877/6444963.html DreamWorks Animation SKG has chosen Intel to supply the processors for the creation of 3D movies, tossing the AMD chips the movie studio has previously been using, media reported Wednesday. DreamWorks will use Intel's visual computin ... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:06:33 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90877/6444963.html 2008-07-09T03:06:33Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6444686.html Britain has said it will go slow on biofuels following a new scientific report that suggests they could eventually harm the environment and contribute to food price increases. British Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly and Environment S ... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:59:34 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90878/6444686.html 2008-07-09T00:59:34Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90864/6444511.html DreamWorks Animation has formed a strategic alliance with chip maker Intel aimed at improving the studio's technology for creating 3-D animated movies, the companies said Tuesday. Under the deal, Intel will provide DreamsWorks Anima ... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:10:25 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90864/6444511.html 2008-07-09T00:10:25Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90864/6444507.html Microsoft announced on Tuesday it would sell a package of four server products to U.S. companies by the end of this year for 15 U.S. dollars per PC user per month. The software giant listed the four products as Exchange On-line, Sha ... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:09:31 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90864/6444507.html 2008-07-09T00:09:31Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444379.html Nanopaper made of gently processed natural cellulose nanofibers is found to have a tensile strength almost equaling that of structural steel, according to Lars Berglund of the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. Berglund discovere ... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:48:00 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444379.html 2008-07-08T09:48:00Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444378.html Japanese chemists say they have created the world's first DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts, which could lead to improvements in gene therapy, nano-sized computers and other high-tech advances. Scientists have tr ... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:47:27 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444378.html 2008-07-08T09:47:27Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444377.html Japanese electronics maker Pioneer announced Monday it has developed a read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 GB, which is far more than any optical discs currently available. The optical disc has 16 layers; each of them can ... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:46:53 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444377.html 2008-07-08T09:46:53Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444376.html The iPhone is ready to go to work with business appeal one year after becoming the stylish pocket PC for consumers, it was reported on Monday. The latest version of the mobile device, which goes on sale Friday, will take advantage o ... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:46:11 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444376.html 2008-07-08T09:46:11Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444375.html A 3-mile-wide comet that shattered over glaciers and ice sheets in Canda during the last Ice Age may have scattered diamonds and precious metals in the eastern United States and set North America on fire, leading to a mass die-off of anima ... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:45:27 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444375.html 2008-07-08T09:45:27Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444374.html An Ariane 5 ECA rocket with two telecom satellites on board blasted off from Europe's Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on Monday night. The rocket carrying ProtoStar I and Badr-6 took off at 2153 GMT Monday and the satellites ... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:44:48 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444374.html 2008-07-08T09:44:48Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444373.html NASA announced on Monday target launch dates for the remaining space shuttle missions on the current manifest in fiscal year 2009 and 2010. The manifest includes one flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, seven assembly flights to t ... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:44:06 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6444373.html 2008-07-08T09:44:06Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6444341.html At a grand mosque modeled on India's Taj Mahal, Ma Chunjun, 24, a graduate from the Islamic Scripture College of Ningxia, the only higher school which trains senior Islamic clergymen in the region, was telling a group of visitors of the his ... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:20:42 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6444341.html 2008-07-08T09:20:42Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6443589.html On the afternoon of July 6, the Clean Energy Automotive Engineering Center of Tongji University (CEAEC) held a ceremony to debut a new hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. The car was researched and built independently by China； and is leaving the ... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:28:54 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6443589.html 2008-07-07T08:28:54Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6443492.html A new climate change report of increased drought, heatwaves and less rain for Australia in the future prompted the nation's agriculture minister to say it reads like a "disaster novel." "Parts of these high level projections read mor ... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:25:21 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6443492.html 2008-07-07T06:25:21Z http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6443391.html Toyota Motor Corp. plans to install solar panels on its next-generation Prius hybrid cars to power the vehicle's air conditioning, according to Monday's Nikkei Business Daily. The Prius, the world's first mass-produced gasoline-elec ... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:34:40 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6443391.html 2008-07-07T03:34:40Z