New findings indicate HIV/AIDS pandemic began around 1900, earlier than previously thought October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in colonial Africa set the stage for the HIV/AIDS pandemic. | |
Mystery illness kills four in South Africa: official October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Four people, two of them Zambians, have died in Johannesburg of a mystery flu-like illness, the health department spokesman said Monday. | |
 Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found -- Discovered in Nevada October 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters ... | |
Outer Solar System Not as Crowded as Astronomers Thought October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a treasure hunt comes up empty-handed, the hunters are understandably disappointed. But when astronomers don't find what they are looking for, the defeat can provide as much information as a successful ... | |
CSIRO's UltraBattery goes global in the auto sector October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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The CSIRO-invented UltraBattery is set to have a global impact on greenhouse gas emissions after Japan's Furukawa Battery Company, which has already begun production of the UltraBattery, and US manufacturer, East Penn, today ... | |
Researchers develop world's fastest bar code reader September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on a series of recent breakthroughs in ultrafast analog-to-digital conversion, UCLA engineers have designed a bar code reader that is nearly a thousand times faster than any device currently in use. | |
 The search for 'green' gold in the Amazon rain forest October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a hunt for plants in the Amazon rain forest that have potential to be used for sustainable light-weight construction beams, electronic cases or other high-performance materials, Cornell ... | |
 Google launches blog tracking service October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Google has launched an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading. | |
New study on antioxidants shows mixed results for life extension September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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First the good news: a study by scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research shows four common antioxidants extended lifespan in the nematode worm C. elegans. And the not such good news: those four were among 40 antioxidants ... | |
Calming your thoughts through mindfulness October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Our worries. They're crescendoing like the finale of Beethoven's "Ninth": Bailouts, buyouts. Recession, depression. | |
Computer hardware 'guardians' protect users from undiscovered bugs September 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs. But that may be OK, according to University of Michigan researchers who have devised a ... | |
Under pressure at the nanoscale, polymers play by different rules October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Scientists putting the squeeze on thin films of polystyrene have discovered that at very short length scales the polymer doesn't play by the rules. | |
 Ring-cellphone concept combines style and basic functions October 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Even though it's one of the tiniest cell phones you've probably ever seen, it would be difficult to lose this one. As its name implies, the "ring-cellphone" is worn on the finger, and includes all the components ... | |
 Dinosaurs survived 2 mass extinctions and 50 million years before taking over the world and dominating ecosystems September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Reporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, Professor Michael Benton, and colleagues at the University of Bristol show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that ... | |
 Internet pop-up "scareware purveyors" sued September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Microsoft and Washington state's top prosecutor have filed a lawsuit to stop "scareware purveyors" that trick people with pop-up messages claiming computers need critical repairs. | |
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