 The 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show. | |
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ... | |
 Drought threatens drinking water for a million Australians July 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Up to a million people in Australia could face a shortage of drinking water if the country's drought continues, a report on the state of the nation's largest river system revealed Sunday. | |
 Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists ... | |
 Consumer spending: Why nine is the magic number July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Retailers' belief that customers like a price ending in a nine rather than a rounded-up zero -- 199.99 instead of 200.00, for instance -- has been borne out by scientific research on a restaurant menu. | |
Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry products, air fresheners July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical regulated as toxic or hazardous ... | |
 N.M. cavers chart unique 'snowy' river of crystals July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits. The ... | |
Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Although state lotteries, on average, return just 53 cents for every dollar spent on a ticket, people continue to pour money into them — especially low-income people, who spend a larger percentage of their incomes on lottery ... | |
 Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ... | |
 N.M. researchers hope to cultivate 'calming herb' 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The plant has been described by local residents as magical, its qualities almost mythical. The native herb yerba mansa, translated from Spanish as the "calming herb," has been used for centuries throughout ... | |
 New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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They're torn and faded and have the woven texture of a flattened Triscuit. At first glance, the ancient Egyptian texts look like scraps of garbage. And more than 2,000 years ago, that's exactly what they were—discarded ... | |
 Category 2 Hurricane Dolly Crosses South Padre Island, Texas July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
At 12:00 p.m. CDT (1:00 p.m. EDT) Dolly's eye was located near latitude 26.2 north and longitude 97.0 west or about 35 miles northeast of Brownsville, Texas, and she was crossing South Padre Island.
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 NASA Conducts Full-Scale Test Firing of Orion Jettison Motor July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA completed a full-scale rocket motor test on Thursday, July 17, to further development of the Orion jettison motor, which will separate the spacecraft's launch abort system from the crew ... | |
 COROT's new find orbits Sun-like star July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than 50 000 ... | |
 Russian scientists begin trial exploration of world's deepest lake July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Russian scientists leading a submarine expedition to probe the world's deepest lake on Thursday carried out test dives ahead of the start of the operation next week, reports said. | |
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