A Russian mini-submarine on Tuesday reached the bottom of Lake Baikal in Siberia, setting a world record for the deepest dive in a lake, the crew told organisers from the vessel.
A Calgary endurance athlete is catching his breath after claiming a world record for the greatest distance travelled in 24 hours on flat water via human power.
... -tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an ... 2008, and helped Wojtek Czyz beat the world record by an incredible 27 cm."
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... with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm.
... male 100·m sprinters could one day get the record down to an incredible 9.48s, running 0. ... , Denny predicts that males could cut the current world record, held by Haile Gebrselassie, by between 2min7s ...
2008 was a great summer for sports' fans. World records tumbled at the Beijing Olympics. Usain Bolt shattered both the 100m and 200m world records, knocking tenths of a second off each.
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... the event, the Go program MoGo TITAN sets two new world records by winning a 19x19 competition with a 7-stones handicap against the 9P dan professional Go player Jun-Xun Zhou ...
Pakistan set the Guinness World Record for tree planting, beating India in a healthy and productive international competition contributing to preserving fragile and endangered forests...
... Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, report that they have bested the world record, set last year by Elizabeth ... 77.8 percent of the space. The previous world record was set in 2006 by Torquato and John ...
... solar cell from 21.9 to 23.2 percent (a relative improvement of 6 per cent). This new world record is being presented on Wednesday May 14 at a major solar energy conference in ...
... get themselves into Olympic form. But by the time the world short-course swimming championships in Manchester, England wrapped up in early April, 37 world records had fallen. New swimsuit technology ...
French parachutist Michel Fournier, 64, will try Monday to break a skydiving world record by plunging from a balloon into thin air 40 kilometers (25 miles) above Canada's vast western plains.
... at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that ...
... ) -- An ultra-lightweight plane built from carbon fiber and powered using paper-thin solar panels has broken the world record for longest-lasting unmanned flight, its manufacturer ...
Scientists at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into ...
