Sunday, March 8, 2009

Bad Marriages Strain Women's Hearts, But Not Men's

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From Live Science: An unhappy marriage can weigh heavily on anyone's heart, but apparently women may suffer the most ill health effects ...

Drug Blocks Two Of World's Deadliest Emerging Viruses

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Image: Hendra virus has a growing family tree. Pic courtesy CSIRO. From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2009) — Two highly lethal viru...

Horse Domestication Traced To Ancient Central Asian Culture

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A horse's tooth found at an ancient settlement in Kazakhstan displays parallel bands of wear (at left) typically produced by bits held i...

Daylight Saving Time Facts

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Electric Time Company employee Walter Rodriguez cleans the face of an 84-inch (213-centimeter) Wegman clock at the firm's plant in Medfi...
Saturday, March 7, 2009

The World's Hardest-Working Telescope

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Dinoj Surendran, Microsoft Research, and Mark Subbarao, Adler Planetarium/KICP/University of Chicago From Discover: By precisely mapping a v...

'Vampire' Discovered In Mass Grave

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To stop the "vampires" supposedly chewing shrouds and spreading disease, grave-diggers put bricks in the mouths of plague victims ...

First Successful Attempt To Breed Night Blooming And Day Blooming Flower

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Electric Indigo is a cross between the Egyptian White Water Lily that blooms at night and a blue Australian lily Nympaea Barre Hellquist tha...

Shall We Dance? Astronomers Spot Two Black Holes Performing Cosmic Minuet

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An artist's conception of the two supermassive black holes that orbit each other every 100 years. The findings were published in the jou...

Lake Superior Is Freezing Over

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From Watts Up With That? Lake Superior last froze over in 2003. It has now, again, frozen over. The frequency of freeze overs has historical...

Kepler Blasts Off In Search Of Earth-Like Planets

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In a timed exposure, spectators watch from Cocoa Beach as the Kepler satellite launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. March 6....

Naked Mole Rats May Hold Clues To Successful Aging

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A naked mole rat in a toilet paper roll. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) From Science ...

Wine and Beer May be Good for Your Bones

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From Live Science: A glass of wine or a bottle or two of beer a day may strengthen the bones of older men and women, but drinking more than ...
Friday, March 6, 2009

Facebook To Launch Redesigned Home Page - News Feed Going “Live” Next Wednesday (Updated With Screenshots)

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(Click The Above Image To Enlarge) From Inside Facebook: Today, Facebook announced that the News Feed, which has long been the most powerful...

The Lost World Beneath The Antarctic Ice

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Scientists start explorations in the two-mile-thick ice sheet above Lake Ellsworth in Antarctica. Press Handout From The Independent: Britis...

Q&A: Mitchell Baker On The Future Of Firefox

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Browsing The Future -- Newsweek Mozilla's Firefox gave Microsoft a run for its money. What's next? At least 18 percent of you alread...

Bionic Eye Lets The Blind See

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Ron who has a bionic eye as featured on BBC's Inside Out. From The Telegraph: A bionic eye has allowed a blind patient to see well enoug...

Telescope 'Cousins' Meet At Last

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Scheduled to launch in April 2009, the Herschel and Planck space telescopes bring capabilities never before available to study the origins o...

Yucca No Longer Option For Waste Site

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In this June 25, 2002, photo, the view from the summit ridge of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump near Mercury, looking west to...

The Kepler Telescope: Taking A Census Of The Galaxy

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At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, workers from Ball Aerospace check the star trackers on NASA's Keple...

How Are People Lost at Sea Found?

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SHIPWRECKED: The U.S. Coast Guard found boating accident survivor Nick Schuyler yesterday on the overturned vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. C...