Huge asteroid hurtles toward Earth
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An asteroid that's about one-half-mile wide is hurtling toward Earth, expected to narrowly miss the planet early Monday.
New process makes diesel fuel and industrial chemicals from simple sugar
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The soaring prices of oil and natural gas have sparked a race to make transportation fuels from plant matter instead of petroleum. Both biodiesel and gasoline containing ethanol are starting to make an impact ...
Scientists Confirm Folk Remedy Repels Mosquitoes
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Swatting mosquitoes and dodging other biting bugs is nearly a year-round chore in the Southeast, but such pests are swarming across the country with the advent of summer weather. And with warnings about West ...
Catastrophic 'lake burst' chills climate
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Ocean circulation changes during the present warm interglacial were more extensive than previously thought, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Cardiff University.
Link between income and happiness is mainly an illusion
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While most people believe that having more income would make them happier, Princeton University researchers have found that the link is greatly exaggerated and mostly an illusion.
Drivers on cell phones are as bad as drunks
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Three years after the preliminary results first were presented at a scientific meeting and drew wide attention, University of Utah psychologists have published a study showing that motorists who talk on handheld ...
Beware of exploding laptops
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Exploding laptops could be deadly, a Canadian research group reported Thursday.
I Robot, your companion
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Robotic technology is advancing apace and now a top team of European scientists and engineers hope to make the leap from single function ‘dumb’ machines to adaptive learning machines.
Study: Tasmanian Devil may face extinction
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A rare cancer is reportedly decimating Australia's dwindling Tasmanian Devil population, ABC News reported Thursday.
Method to Better Predict Software Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerability defects in software that can allow hackers to bypass security measures have emerged as a significant threat in a society that increasingly relies on computer systems and the Internet for commerce and other uses.
Great hammerhead shark sets litter record
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A great hammerhead shark caught off the Gulf Coast of Florida last month was reportedly pregnant with 55 "pups" -- setting a record.
Cold Gas in the Andromeda Galaxy
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A new radio frequency map of the Andromeda galaxy has been made by a German-French research team of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn and the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique ...
Boomerang-shaped liquid crystals focus of new study
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A group of researchers from Kent State University's Department of Physics and Liquid Crystal Institute has been awarded an $536,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to study a new class of liquid crystal molecules, ...
NASA GPS software to calculate quake size
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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GPS software developed by NASA could be the answer to determining the scale of an earthquake.
Study says night light may promote cancer
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A New York researcher says frequent exposure to artificial light at night may increase the risk of breast cancer.
