Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Ancient "Fossil" Virus Shows Infection To Be Millions Of Years Old

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INFECTIOUS INSERTIONS: Today's songbirds are harboring traces of ancient viral strains in their genomes, giving researchers a new unders...

Freshly Discovered Earth-Like Planet Orbiting Nearby Star Could Be The First Truly Habitable Exoplanet

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Gliese 581 Digital Sky Survey/ESO From Popular Science: A couple of math geeks recently calculated that the discovery of the first “habitab...

The Difference Engine: Bigger Than Wi-Fi

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From The Economist: HAVE you ever wondered, if you are of an age with your correspondent, about those missing channels on old television set...

The Carbon Age: Dark Element, Brighter Future

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Image : A computer-rendered view inside a carbon nanotube. (Credit: ghutchis/Flickr) From CNET: Humankind has seen the Stone Age, the Golden...

Mars Moon Phobos Likely Forged By Catastrophic Blast

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From Space.com: One of the two moons of Mars most likely formed from rubble catapulted into space after a comet or meteorite slammed into th...

Sneaking Spies Into A Cell's Nucleus

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Tuan Vo-Dinh, left, and Molly Gregas are researchers at Duke University. (Credit: Duke University Photography) From Science Daily: ScienceDa...

Mysterious, Rare Red Diamond On Display

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The Kazanjian Red Diamond, one of only three red diamonds of more than five carats, is on display at the American Museum of Natural History....

Quantum Leap Towards Computer Of The Future

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An artist's impression of a phosphorus atom (a red sphere surrounded by a blue electron cloud) coupled to a silicon single-electron tran...

Solar Or Wind Power? Why Not Both?

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Solar wind doesn't act like wind on Earth, and the satellite wouldn't generate electricity like a windmill. iStockphoto From Discov...

Kindle For The Web

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One-Fifth Of World's Plants At Risk Of Extinction

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Photo: Plants such as artemisia sweet wormwood provide valuable drugs - in this case, for malaria From The BBC: One-fifth of the world'...

The End of Time Is Nigh (In A Cosmic Sense, Anyhow)

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The End of Time Ticking off the seconds until the end of time, some 3.7 billion years from now. Leo Reynolds via Flickr From Popular Scien...

Deceptive Robots Hint At Machine Self-Awareness

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From New Scientist: A robot that tricks its opponent in a game of hide and seek is a step towards machines that can intuit our thoughts, int...

The End Of An Era In British Military Aviation

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Last flight? The Cold War Vulcan bomber may not take to the skies again, unless its owners can raise £400,000 by the end of October Last Vul...

Google's Boss Envisions a Utopian Future

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Credit: Dave Getzschman/TechCrunch From Technology Review: Google's CEO Eric Schmidt played make believe and sketched out his vision of ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Why Are There No Hyenas In Europe?

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Profile of an alert spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta). (Credit: iStockphoto) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2010) — A team from th...

Diet and Exercise Trump Diabetes Drugs

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From Live Science: A news search on the word "Avandia," the diabetes drug, will pull up thousands of results, nearly all pertainin...

Depressing Lottery Simulator Lets You Play 1000 Times a Second, Shows All The Millions You Didn't Win

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Big Pile O' Cash, But Not For Me aresauburn on Flickr From Popular Science: Thanks to one man, I don’t need to play the lottery. I alr...

The Effects Of World War I And II Are Still With Us

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Bomb Hotspots Of Northern Europe -- New Scientist If you want to avoid being blown up by a bombs lost during World Wars I and II, be careful...

Revealed: Europe's Hybrid 'Helicraft' That Makers Hope Will Smash The Speed Barrier... And Steal U.S. Rival's Business

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High-speed: The X3 is equipped with two turboshaft engines that power a five-blade main rotor system and two propellers installed on short-s...