Science news articles about 'ramps'

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A fast-growing vine that's left parts of Indiana beneath tangles of greenery is coming under assault as the state ramps up its efforts to kill the leafy invader....

Internet retail titan Amazon has ramped up its attack on Apple's iTunes by having links to its MP3 online music and movie store built into a "Google phone" due out next month.

... AP) -- Online retailers are ramping up heavy-duty deals to turn skittish shoppers into buyers ...

Australia's best bet for reducing greenhouse gases over the next 10 years is to ramp down coal, ramp up natural gas and invest in renewables.

The rover for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity, exercised its mobility system by driving over raised ramps in recent testing at JPL.

General Motors Tuesday launched its battery-powered Chevrolet Volt and a major hiring program to ramp up production of green vehicles.

Faced with aggressive public outreach by China, the United States must ramp up its own efforts and do a better job fighting Internet censorship, a Senate committee report says.

US President Barack Obama, taking aim at climate change, proposed Monday to ramp up research in clean energy including small nuclear reactors while slashing subsidies for fossil fuels.

... , providing strong evidence that the supernova activity is ramping up. The diffuse emission observed by Chandra also supports ...

... distance WiFi, even at the expense of bandwidth, On-Ramp Wireless has unveiled a product capable of delivering ... than 5 bits of data per second, On-Ramp chief technology officer, Ted Myers ...

... the people in the control room at the utilities determine when ramp events may occur and how that will affect the power generation ... identified important weather variables associated with ramp events," Kamath said. "This information could be used by the schedulers to reduce ...

... accelerator's rf, or radiofrequency, components. As the SNS ramps up toward its full 1.4 megawatts ...

... them stack together in a spiral parking ramp-type structure that quickly lengthens the tip ...

... interference with humics and other materials,” Pennell noted. “Ramping up the complexity will make this research a real challenge ...

... dragged the particles back and forth in the fluid as they ramped up the intensity of the lasers that formed the tweezers. As they expected ... grip on captured particles, but only up to a point. Eventually, ramping up the laser led to a poorer control of the particles ...