A Jurassic tree grows in Australia October 17, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The Wollemi pine, a 200 million-year-old tree from the Jurassic period long thought to be extinct, has reportedly been found growing in Australia. | |
Shark attack worries? Driving to the beach is more deadly June 29, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Which is more likely to happen - you being in a car wreck or being bitten by a shark?
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Metals take a walk July 12, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Scientists in the Organic Chemistry Department of the Weizmann Institute of Science have caught a glimpse of platinum-based complexes 'walking' a path to their destinations
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 Spitzer Captures Cosmic 'Mountains of Creation' November 10, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals billowing mountains of dust ablaze with the fires of stellar youth. | |
 Hubble, Sloan Quadruple Number of Known Optical Einstein Rings November 17, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Astronomers have combined two powerful astronomical assets, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, to identify 19 new "gravitationally lensed" galaxies. Among these 19, they ... | |
Substance that knocks out anthrax November 29, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers at Stockholm University have found a substance that quickly knocks out the anthrax bacterium. The bacterium has been used in terrorist attacks in the US and Japan, for example. | |
Self-monitoring cars to detect own faults December 05, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Discovery News has reported a major leap forward in automobile technology: future cars will be able to diagnose and monitor their faults. According to the report, the new technology will determine which parts are damaged ... | |
New manufacturing process helps metals lose weight December 12, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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A pioneering manufacturing process that can turn titanium, stainless steel and many other metals into a new breed of engineering components could have a big impact across industry. | |
Breakthrough in puzzle of giant explosions in space December 14, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire have helped to solve one of the longest standing puzzles in astrophysics— the nature of the enormous explosions known as short-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs). | |
 The end of cheap gas: U.S. automakers are running on empty December 22, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The federal government recently acknowledged that the era of cheap gas has come to an end. Now it's high time that U.S. automakers did the same, says University of Michigan auto industry expert Walter McManus. | |
 Measuring the size of a small, frost world January 04, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Being in the right place at the right time gave a group of Massachusetts research astronomers a unique opportunity to study Pluto's largest moon Charon. The resulting measurements, to unprecedented accuracy, ... | |
Author feature: Counterfeiting January 09, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A booming knockoff community might be the product of evolving technology and inefficient law enforcement, according to one counterfeit expert. | |
Researchers confirm role of massive flood in climate change January 10, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Climate modelers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) have succeeded in reproducing the climate changes caused by a massive freshwater pulse into the North Atlantic that occurred at the beginning of the current ... | |
 Space Probes Detect Enormous Natural Particle Accelerator January 12, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A fleet of NASA and ESA space-weather probes observed an immense jet of electrically charged particles in the solar wind between the Sun and Earth. The jet, at least 200 times as wide as the Earth, was powered ... | |
 Stardust placed into hibernation mode January 31, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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NASA's Stardust spacecraft was placed into hibernation mode yesterday. Stardust successfully returned to Earth samples of a comet via its sample return capsule on Jan. 15. The spacecraft has logged almost seven ... | |
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