 Robotic ants building homes on Mars? October 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be ... | |
 Microsoft Gets Patent for Patently Offensive Audio Content October 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft recently obtained a patent designed to create an | |
 CNN 'beams up' virtual correspondent November 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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CNN viewers saw double Tuesday when the cable news giant used a hologram to "beam up" a reporter from Chicago to New York for election analysis. | |
 Scientists revisit 1833 hydrogen production experiment November 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 127 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early 1800s, during the peak of the Industrial Revolution, modern science revolved around steam engines and other coal-powered applications. So it may seem a bit out of place that, ... | |
 NASA says Phoenix Mars mission has ended (Update 2) November 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months. As anticipated, seasonal decline in sunshine at the robot's arctic landing site is not providing ... | |
 Magic solar milestone reached: UNSW claims 25 percent solar cell efficiency title October 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 64 vote(s)
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University of New South Wales ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has reported the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent effiency. | |
 Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars October 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars. This discovery suggests that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a ... | |
 Japanese clone mouse from frozen cell, aim for mammoths November 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a mouse from a dead cell frozen for 16 years, taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths. | |
 Optical illusions: caused by eye or brain? November 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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When viewing the famous optical illusion painting Enigma by Isia Leviant, many people claim to see motion within the colored circles moving against the black and white striped background. Although this ... | |
 Qualcomm to link people to Internet without computers November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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US wireless technology titan Qualcomm on Wednesday said it is unleashing technology that will let people in poor countries connect to the Internet without personal computers. | |
 Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis ... | |
Natural gas rush stirs environmental concerns November 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Advanced drilling techniques that blast millions of gallons of water into 400-million-year-old shale formations a mile underground are opening up "unconventional" gas fields touted as a key to the nation's energy ... | |
Less ice in the Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 years ago October 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice ... | |
 Potent greenhouse gas more prevalent in atmosphere than previously assumed October 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC ... | |
 The beauty machine November 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Our mothers told us that true beauty is more than skin deep — but researchers from Tel Aviv University are now challenging Mom. | |
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