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Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 25, 2009 |
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The holiday season is as much a time for tech as for toys. Electronic gadgets are at the top of many wish lists and account for an ever-growing share of holiday shopping budgets. Fortunately for shoppers, tech gifts don't ...
Software takes a hard look at traffic fatalities
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Bergen County Police and a Hackensack, N.J., drug treatment center are among a growing number of agencies using a software program to identify dangerous intersections, spot teen driving trends and reduce accident fatalities.
Lose the fat: Targeting grease to curtail sewer overflows
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Sewer overflows are a nasty business, posing dangers to human health and the environment. North Carolina State University is launching a new project with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that targets ...
COBE Satellite Marks 20th Anniversary
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. Developed and built at Goddard ...
No-entry zones for AIDS virus
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 12, 2009 |
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The AIDS virus inserts its genetic material into the genome of the infected cell. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have now shown for the first time that the virus almost entirely spares particular ...
A bubbling ball of gas (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2009 |
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The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing ...
Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.
Tags reveal white sharks have neighborhoods in the north Pacific
Nov 03, 2009 |
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The white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers has discovered that the sharks have maintained such a consistent pattern of ...
Wolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity?
A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, when harvest conditions are less than ideal, silage with lower-than-optimum moisture levels is put into a silo, potentially leading to excessive heating and a spontaneous-combustion ...
The CoRoT space mission: Early results
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a special issue this week dedicated to the early results of the CoRoT space mission. The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits) satellite is a 30 centimeter space ...
Beware of highway robbers on Wi-Fi
Oct 12, 2009 |
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As the number of Wi-Fi hot spots grows, travelers might want to heed a word of caution from the Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit industry group that promotes Wi-Fi technology: Think security.
Phase 1 of PCB removal on Hudson wrapping up
Oct 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Crews dredging a polluted stretch of the upper Hudson River this year battled high water, old logging debris and unexpected levels of PCB contamination that slowed progress.
Seasonal flu vaccine delayed for some US providers
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The largest U.S. supplier of seasonal flu vaccines said it is running behind on shipping those vaccines - partly because of the crunch to produce millions of doses of the swine flu vaccine.
Pink Visual software lets iPhones map sexual exploits
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Adult entertainment studio Pink Visual on Tuesday unleashed software that lets people use iPhones to map sexual exploits.
