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Fuzziness on the road to physics' grand unification theory
Oct 06, 2008 |
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Leave it to hypothesized gravity to weigh down what physicists have thought for 30 years. If theoretical physicists, led by the University of Oregon's Stephen Hsu, are right, the idea that nature's forces ...
Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations Rewards Bold Ideas
May 06, 2009 |
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Even in troubled times, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recognize innovation for the betterment of mankind takes money. The Gates Foundation is providing $100,000 to 81 cutting edge health researcher ...
Grand Canyon to change 'unfair' permit system
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system.
Water experts: Mining near Grand Canyon is risky
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Water experts are telling Congress that uranium mining near the Grand Canyon would court disaster.
Google, on tricycle, captures gardens of Versailles
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Google's tricycle-mounted cameras on Monday shot footage of the 17th century gardens of France's Chateau de Versailles destined for its Street View service by year's end.
MR enterography eliminates unnecessary radiation exposure in patients with small bowel disease
Apr 23, 2009 |
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MR enterography is an effective tool to evaluate and guide treatment of patients with Crohn's Disease (a common form of inflammatory bowel disease that typically affects young people) without exposing them to radiation, according ...
'Call of Duty' setting entertainment records
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" is blasting its way into entertainment history.
Interior halting uranium mining at Grand Canyon
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Thousands of mining claims dot 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says his department has a responsibility to ensure those resources are developed in a way that ...
Leaked video game footage shows terrorist attack
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Footage leaked from "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" reveals that players of the upcoming video game can shoot innocent civilians in an airport in a realistic rendering of a terrorist attack.
Grand prizes might help induce sports 'hot streaks'
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Mar 17, 2009 |
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Dangling a lucrative financial carrot at the end of a professional sport season can cause certain players to exert the effort necessary to put together a string of successful performances, sometimes known in sporting circles ...
Take-Two posts larger 4Q loss on higher charges
Dec 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Charges and expenses outweighed higher sales and drove video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. to post a wider fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, as billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn reported ...
Ann Arbor News to publish its last edition in July
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Ann Arbor News will cease publication in July after 174 years and will be replaced by a Web-focused community news operation built from the ground up.
'P.B. Winterbottom' finds a home at 2K Games
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Matt Korba and his pals are busy turning his interactive media thesis project from a rudimentary silent film-themed video-game prototype into a fleshed-out puzzler featuring over 80 levels that will ...
Researchers Look Beyond the Birth of the Universe
May 12, 2006 |
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According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the Big Bang represents The Beginning, the grand event at which not only matter but space-time itself was born. While classical theories offer no clues ...
Man indicted in death of Hawaiian monk seal
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted a 78-year-old Kauai man in the shooting death of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal in May.
