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Skype founders looking to buy back company

The two founders of Skype are seeking to buy back the hugely popular Internet telephone service that they sold to online auction giant eBay in 2005, according to US media reports.

Technology / Internet

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Bad mood, better recall, researchers find

People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Low-tech tools take out phones in Silicon Valley

(AP) -- Forget, for a moment, computer viruses and sophisticated cybercrimes. A hacksaw and a few other tools were probably all it took for someone to sever eight fiber-optic cables in Silicon Valley this ...

Technology / Telecom

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Student warned over Facebook site wooing prospect

(AP) -- College sports fans, be careful of the company you keep on Facebook. You might get yourself - and the program you support - in trouble.

Technology / Internet

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NASA to announce module name on 'Colbert Report'

(AP) -- Stephen Colbert is still clinging to hope that NASA will name a new room at the international space station after him.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Madoff's tickets bid to $2,375 on eBay

(AP) -- Bernard Madoff is still making a market - at least his Citi Field seats are.

Technology / Internet

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7th surgery shows face transplants gaining ground

(AP) -- Five years ago, it was the stuff of science fiction: Replace someone's face with one from a dead donor. But on Thursday, Boston doctors performed the world's seventh such transplant - less than a week ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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Uni-flipper turtle gets it straight with swimsuit

(AP) -- Allison, a green sea turtle with only one flipper, has been going around and around and around for most of her life.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Scientists model 3D structures of proteins that control human clock

In an Early Edition issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on April 9, 2009, the researchers report that they have been able to determine the molecular structure of a plant photolyase protein that ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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