New Web tool WolframAlpha launches test run
May 16, 2009 |
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Google rules the roost when it comes to Internet search and has easily brushed aside efforts by Yahoo!, Microsoft and others to knock it off its perch.
Spacewalkers pull off toughest Hubble repairs yet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a better view of the cosmos by installing a new high-tech instrument Saturday, then pulled off their toughest job yet: fixing a broken camera.
Complex repairs face weary Hubble spacewalkers
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Astronauts are getting ready for what could be the most complex spacewalking of their mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
Study looks at early Navajo use of smoke signals
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Archaeologists and volunteers armed with special flares will fan out over part of the Four Corners region on Saturday to study how early Navajos could have used smoke signals to warn against invaders.
Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds
May 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threatens to wipe out that bird population in the United States.
Swine flu closes more NYC schools, spreads in Asia
May 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The swine flu virus continues spreading among children in the city, closing more schools, and the disease reached further into Asia among travelers returning from the United States.
AIDS patients with serious complications benefit from early retroviral use, study shows
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 16, 2009 |
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HIV-positive patients who don't seek medical attention until they have a serious AIDS-related condition can reduce their risk of death or other complications by half if they get antiretroviral treatment early on, according ...
WHO says confirmed swine flu cases top 8,400
May 16, 2009 |
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The number of confirmed swine flu cases has reached 8,451, a rise of nearly 1,000 in 24 hours, the World Health Organisation said on Saturday.
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