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The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (w/Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2009 |
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On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because ...
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Vietnam Internet users fear Facebook blackout
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.
Brazil blackouts result of cyber hacking: report
Nov 07, 2009 |
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Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS said Sunday.
Funding A Greener Grid: How Obama plans to spend billions on modernizing the U.S. electrical network
Oct 29, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that his administration plans to spend $3.4 billion on producing a safer, more efficient electrical grid. Obama underscored the need to find clean forms of energ ...
Researchers discover mechanism that helps humans see in bright and low light
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Ever wonder how your eyes adjust during a blackout? When we go from light to near total darkness, cells in the retina must quickly adjust. Vision scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...
Taking the juice for granted: Powering American cities in the new century
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Barring the occasional thunderstorm, most Americans take the electric current behind their power buttons for granted, and assume the juice will be there when they're ready to fire up an appliance or favorite ...
Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across Web
Aug 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia - but the collateral damage that left millions around the world ...
Web site tracks world online censorship reports
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When Shanghai blogger Isaac Mao tried to watch a YouTube clip of Chinese police beating Tibetans, all he got was an error message.
Doctor in 1999 South Pole rescue dies in Mass.
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole a decade ago, has died after the disease recurred. She was 57.
Shuttle launch delayed to July by hydrogen leak
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Jun 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- For the second time in less than a week, a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak early Wednesday forced NASA to delay shuttle Endeavour's launch to the international space station, this time until ...
Hydrogen gas leak forces another launch delay
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Jun 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA has called off Wednesday's launch attempt for space shuttle Endeavour because of another hydrogen gas leak.
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