Small furry animal lived with dinosaurs
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The fossil of a small, furry insect-eating animal that walked like a platypus has been found in China.
Putting pedestrian safety in the driving seat
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Every year in the European Union there are over 9,000 deaths and 200,000 injured victims in road accidents in which pedestrians and cyclists collide with a car. Hoping to improve on these grim statistics, is ...
Digital killed the video store
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The livelihood of video stores and online rentals might be numbered, now that the video-download movement is underway. The dawn of convenient video downloads of movie and television shows follows in the steps of audio music ...
Mystery Solved: High-Energy Fireworks Linked To Massive Star Cluster
Jan 12, 2006 |
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Call it the Bermuda Triangle of our Milky Way Galaxy: a tiny patch of sky that has been known for years to be the source of the mysterious blasts of X-rays and gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers, led by ...
Small telescope may speed star search
Jan 12, 2006 |
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Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a very young star nearly 100 light years away using a relatively small, publicly accessible telescope.
Massive vacuum vessel arrives for world-leading neutron source
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A massive vacuum vessel for the new scientific instrument Merlin is being delivered to the ISIS Neutron Source at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire on Thursday 12 January.
Giant catfish protected in Cambodia
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Conservationists in Cambodia are working to save the giant catfish -- the largest freshwater fish in the world.
Ancient bodies found in Irish bog
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Researchers in Ireland and Britain are revealing details about two 2-millennia-old bodies found in Irish peat bogs.
Astronomers weigh 'recycled' millisecond pulsar
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A team of U.S. and Australian astronomers is announcing today that they have, for the first time, precisely measured the mass of a millisecond pulsar -- a tiny, dead star spinning hundreds of times every second. ...
Macworld new products and reactions
Jan 12, 2006 |
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The Macworld Expo show floor buzzed with its usual annual energy Wednesday as hundreds of vendors and thousands of attendees converged to discuss new products, Apple's recently introduced hardware and upcoming technologies. ...
Fossil Galaxy Reveals Clues to Early Universe
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A tiny galaxy has given astronomers a glimpse of a time when the first bright objects in the universe formed, ending the dark ages that followed the birth of the universe.
Quasar Study Provides Insights into Composition of the Stars That Ended the 'Dark Ages'
Jan 12, 2006 |
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A team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence about the stars whose formation ended the cosmic "Dark Ages" a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Report calls for nanotechnology regulation
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A report says more aggressive oversight and new resources are needed to manage the potential adverse effects of nanotechnology.
Boeing satellites will support wireless
Jan 12, 2006 |
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The trio of high-powered satellites that will be built by Boeing will support upgraded wireless service in North and South America.
Briers: Sirius with Rolls Royce for free
Jan 12, 2006 |
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Sirius Satellite Radio said Wednesday its sets will be included in all Rolls-Royce cars sold in the United States, including a lifetime subscription.
