The Web: An iPod for your car
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Would you like some digital music downloaded directly to your dashboard -- not just your desktop? That may be the next phase of mobile music, as automotive aftermarket suppliers and computer and consumer electronics companies ...
HP, Cingular team on wireless laptops
Apr 05, 2006 |
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Hewlett-Packard will design its new laptop computers to connect to third-generation wireless networks worldwide.
Avian flu outbreak affecting feline world
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Albert Osterhaus and colleagues at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, warn the role cats play in spreading bird flu is being ignored.
Hubble finds 'dust clouds' in Milky Way
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NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has photographed opaque, dark knots of dust and gas called "Bok globules" in our Milky Way Galaxy.
Study: Cancer cure worth $50 trillion
Apr 05, 2006 |
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University of Chicago economists say finding a cure for cancer would be worth about $50 trillion in social value.
Health insurance to be mandatory in Mass.
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Massachusetts is poised to become the first state to require mandatory health insurance coverage under the risk of fines.
GAO critical of Bush's global AIDS plan
Apr 05, 2006 |
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The Government Accountability Office is criticizing U.S. President George Bush's AIDS plan for causing confusion and eroding prevention efforts in some nations.
Faster, Less Expensive Approach to Fluid Meter Design
Apr 05, 2006 |
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NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has patented a faster way to determine flow rates of liquids through channels or pipes. Its balanced flow meter provides 10 times the accuracy of standard orifice-based ...
Scientists search for dark galaxies through the AGES
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First results from the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (AGES) suggest the discovery of a new dark galaxy. The AGES survey, which started in January 2006, is the most sensitive, large-scale survey of neutral hydrogen to ...
Oh, what a feeling - dancing on the ceiling!
Apr 05, 2006 |
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Ever wondered how flies are able to walk on the ceiling without falling off? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart (Germany) are investigating this James Bond-style ability of insects to hang ...
Study: Horses adjust to a rider's weight
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A study showing horses change their back position and alter limb movements to adjust to a rider's weight was presented Tuesday in Canterbury, England.
Giant filament structures give a rare insight into galaxy cluster evolution
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A new image of the centre of a cluster of galaxies has revealed massive filamentary structures that give a rare insight into the evolution of galaxy clusters.
70 million in U.S. have sleep disorders
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The U.S. Institute of Health estimates as many as 70 million people in the United States suffer from chronic, treatable sleep disorders.
Fish on acid: Hagfish cope with high levels of CO2
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The Pacific Hagfish is a strange animal: it feeds by gnawing its way into a carcass and staying inside to feed for up to 3 days. Scientists at the University of British Columbia (Canada) believe the Hagfish’s gruesome method ...
Slow motion mergers in galaxy clusters provide conditions to transform spirals to smooth disks
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Astronomers at Liverpool John Moores University may have solved the mystery of how spiral galaxies in clusters are transformed over time into smooth disks. Results from a study of galaxy clusters confirms that ...
