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Green Up: Game time, Day 2

In late January the development team of "America's Army," the United States Army's free video game for the Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems, arrived in Camp Guernsey, Wyo., for three days of hands-on training ...

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Green Up Journals: Game time

It is late January and the development team of "America's Army" -- the U.S. Army's free video game for the Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems -- has arrived in Camp Guernsey for three days of hands-on training ...

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Expert: You too can be creative; it just takes hard work

Do you desire to be a more creative person but don't think you have the "creative" gene? You may have some hard work ahead, but it's possible to become the next Walt Disney or Martha Stewart, says an expert ...

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Seeing stardust: New image shows speck of comet dust from NASA mission

This photo from NASA shows a mote of comet dust embedded in a tiny wedge of aerogel extracted from the Stardust collectors that returned to Earth Jan. 15. The comet dust was extracted by University of California, ...

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Anti-spam added to Unified Communications

McAfee's anti-spam technology has been added to AT&T's Unified Communications wireless and broadband services.

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New measurements prove myosin VI can act as molecular transporter

In living organisms, hundreds of different kinds of molecular motors perform a variety of essential, but little understood tasks that result in such actions as muscle contraction, cell division and the movement ...

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'Trust me, I'm a physicist' – the weird world of quantum entanglement

Declaring that it is always useful to start a lecture with a literary quote, Professor Sir Peter Knight began his on quantum entanglement with the statement: "Let's just say we want to avoid any Imperial entanglements."

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Scientists find protein that helps synchronize fly's internal clocks

Scientists have identified a receptor protein that helps the fruit fly know when to start and shut down its day, a step that should help them learn more about internal clocks in higher organisms such as humans.

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New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa

A new, more robust analysis of recently derived human gene trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, shows three distinct major waves of human migration out of Africa instead ...

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New Medical Device Combines Wireless and MEMS Technology

Winning a thumbs-up from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CardioMEMS Inc. has launched its EndoSure sensor, which makes testing safer and more convenient for aneurysm patients.

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World's first MOSFETs with epitaxial Gd2O3

Researchers at AMICA and Technical University of Darmstadt have successfully fabricated the world's first MOSFETs on ultra-thin-body silicon-on-insulator (SOI) material and bulk silicon with a crystalline gadolinium oxide ...

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Briefs: Telstra calls for open N.Z. broadband loop

The head of Australia's TelstraClear Friday called for the unbundling of New Zealand's local loops as a means of expanding Kiwi broadband service.

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Globe Talk: Students meet innovation needs

Summer may seem an eternity away for those still struggling to weather the bleak winter season, but for college students, the race to snag a spot with some of the hottest internships around is already well under way. And ...

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Spyware poses a significant threat on the Net

Spyware is alive and well on the Internet. That's the overall message of a new study by University of Washington computer scientists who sampled more than 20 million Internet addresses, looking for the programs that covertly ...

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Briefs: Brasil Telecom beefing up broadband net

Brasil Telecom is upgrading its broadband service to handle multimedia offerings in three regions of the country.

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