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People surf the Internet in Jinan, in eastern China's Shandong province

China blocking Twitter, websites: RSF

Technology / Internet

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

China blocked access to Twitter, Flickr and other websites Tuesday, two days ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said, expressing "outrage" at the ...


Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf (AP)

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Biology / Other

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(AP) -- An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.


A panda cub plays at the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu

China to mark 140th anniversary of giant panda 'discovery'

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

China is to retrace the steps of the French missionary who made giant pandas known to the West to mark the 140th anniversary of their discovery by the outside world, state media said Tuesday.


US astronaut Buzz Aldrin

Apollo astronaut Aldrin urges US to land on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 13

NASA should focus on sending a man to Mars and helping other nations travel in space, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin said Friday.


Al-Qaida Web sites down ahead of 9/11 anniversary

Technology / Internet

created Sep 12, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(AP) -- A U.S.-based group monitoring militant Web sites said Friday that jihadist forums have been experiencing technical problems on the eve of Sept. 11, finally going offline a day before the 8th anniversary of the al-Qaida ...


Teaching science: Is discovery better than telling?

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Western Michigan University researchers have discovered that in the academic debate over whether young science students learn more through experimenting or direct instruction, there's little difference.


The man who could have been Henry VIII

The man who could have been Henry VIII

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This year has seen the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession, and the start of the third television series of The Tudors -- yet we might so easily have been celebrating King Arthur I ...


NASA celebrates Chandra X-Ray Observatory's 10th anniversary

NASA celebrates Chandra X-Ray Observatory's 10th anniversary (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Ten years ago, on July 23, 1999, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia and deployed into orbit. Chandra has doubled its original five-year mission, ushering in an ...


British scientist Stephen Hawking

Britain's Royal Society puts rare scientific manuscripts online

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Historic manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and other ground-breaking scientists will be published online for the first time, Britain's Royal Society said Monday.


Ex-Rocky Mountain News staffers plan news Web site

Technology / Internet

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Former Rocky Mountain News staffers plan to start an online newspaper if they can get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23.



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