News tagged with box
Scientists Unravel Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists ...
Opening up a colorful cosmic jewel box
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Star clusters are among the most visually alluring and astrophysically fascinating objects in the sky. One of the most spectacular nestles deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross ...
Google's search box gets bigger
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Google just got bigger. Not the company, but the search box on its home page, that is.
Quantum ghosts are helpful
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea that far distant particles can somehow 'talk' to each other worried Einstein so much that he called it 'spooky action at a distance'.
Housing shortage alters reproductive behaviour in blue tits
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Increased competition for rare breeding sites causes female blue tits to invest more time in their current brood, to spend more time feeding their offspring and also to produce more male offspring ...
Microsoft Hopes To Win Back Browser Market Share With Internet Explorer 8
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has a lot at stake with the success of Internet Explore 8 since they lost 7 percent of their browser market to Firefox, Safari, and Chrome browsers. IE8 has been in release candidate ...
Twitter unveils new frontpage
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Micro-blogging service Twitter has unveiled a new frontpage featuring a prominent search box in a bid to attract new users.
Shedding light on ancient oceans
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a powerful source of energy humming away inside a laboratory at the University of Alberta. The energy is ultra-violet light, and it packs the same spectrum of rays that kept this planet ...
The Beatles Return to Mono
Nov 11, 2009 |
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From the White Album to Yellow Submarine modern releases of the Beatles present their music in stereo sound. But this Christmas, hard-core Beatles fans will eagerly unwrap "The Beatles in Mono," an 11-CD box set designed ...
Experts mull over lessons from Brazil plane crash
Jun 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The mysterious disappearance of an Air France jet this week while flying over the Atlantic in fierce thunderstorms is stirring a debate about whether new technologies and procedures are needed to prevent similar ...
Are you ready for digital TV?
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If everything goes as planned, on Feb. 17 the long-awaited switch from analog to digital broadcasting will take place and millions of analog television sets across the nation will go black. Temple University ...
Ideal set-top box would combine DVR, wireless and remote access
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 31, 2008 |
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Each week in the space I review gadgets and electronics and tell you which ones are worth buying. Frankly, it's a selfless job where I try to put your interests above my own. But now it's my turn.
Review: Creating virtual recipe box can be a snap
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- For years, I have tucked away recipe cards of all shapes and sizes in nooks and crannies of my kitchen, determined that one day I would actually use them. Sadly, for many recipes, that day never came, ...
Changing behavior helps patients take medication as prescribed
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Taking medication as the doctor prescribes is crucial to improving health. However, 26 to 59 percent of older adults do not adhere to instructions, according to a 2003 study published in Drugs and Aging. In ...
Free Spirit Testing Nearing Completion
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Mars rover engineers at JPL are winding down testing of different escape maneuvers using a test rover in a sand box filled with soil to mimic the Martian surface. It is possible that in early August the first ...
