They are also mining data looking for potentially risky activity below the surface.

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It would allow the skin to feel activity on the surface.

BBC: Sensors

Magnetic activity on the stellar surface could also be caused by accretion of material onto it.

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This will be useful because the location and activity of receptor proteins on surface membranes can be a matter of life and death for a cell or a virus.

ECONOMIST: Microscopy

"We think that magnetic activity on or around the stellar surface creates the super-hot plasma, " Hamaguchi said.

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The researchers specifically rejected any assumption that the 1995 increase of hurricane activity was related to any global surface temperature increases over the past century that might be ascribed to anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gases.

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Paradoxically, its surface appears to be shaped by the deformation of the crust and by volcanic activity.

ECONOMIST: Planetary science

The buoys, which measure movement on the surface, are linked to sensors, placed on the ocean floor to detect sea activity.

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On the surface at least, Amazon.com and Google have dominated the buzz (and developer activity) around cloud computing more than Microsoft.

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