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Cow power could generate electricity for millions

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (35) | comments 6

Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse ...





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NASA Chooses Three Finalists for Future Space Science Mission to Venus, an Asteroid or the Moon

NASA Chooses Three Finalists for Future Space Science Mission to Venus, an Asteroid or the Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better ...


Looks Can Be Deceiving

Looks can be deceiving: Lizards acquire the same camouflaging adaptation in different ways

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 10 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does it matter if nature solves the same problem multiple ways? A NSF-supported study of lizard populations in White Sands, New Mexico has helped researcher Erica Rosenblum of the University ...


South African doctor sees drug-resistant HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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(AP) -- It's 8 a.m. and Dr. Theresa Rossouw is already drowning behind a cluttered desk of handwritten HIV charts - new, perplexing cases of patients whose lifesaving drugs have turned against them.


NTT DoCoMo is a Japan's mobile telephone giant with 55 million subscribers

Japan's mobile phone marvels go back to the future

Technology / Hi Tech

created 10 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the Japan of 2020 a stressed-out salaryman may unwind from his hectic futuristic lifestyle by time-travelling back a few centuries and taking a virtual stroll through medieval Tokyo.


Famous San Francisco sea lions leave in droves (AP)

Famous San Francisco sea lions leave in droves

Biology / Plants & Animals

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(AP) -- Two mysteries surround a huge herd of sea lions that were hanging out on a pier in San Francisco Bay: Why did so many show up, and why did so many leave at once?


Google announced plans to hold a press event next month about its Android mobile phone operating system

Google plans Android event in January

Technology / Internet

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Google announced plans on Tuesday to hold a press event next month about its Android mobile phone operating system amid speculation the Internet giant plans to release its own smartphone.


NASA awards CU-Boulder $3.3 million for concept study for mission to Venus

NASA awards CU-Boulder $3.3 million for concept study for mission to Venus

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $3.3 million for a detailed, one-year concept study for a lander mission to Venus to study the history of its surface, climate and atmosphere and to predict ...


Keyboard symbolizing a hacker

Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case

Technology / Internet

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A 28-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hacking into corporate computer networks and carrying out what US officials have described as the largest credit card theft in US history.


UMass Amherst Chemists Discover How Cells Create Stability During Critical DNA-to-RNA Information Transfers

Chemists Discover How Cells Create Stability During Critical DNA-to-RNA Information Transfers

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemists believe they have for the first time explained how the main players in transcription -- RNA polymerase, RNA (red in illustration) and ...


New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI

New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's going to take infrared eyes to see farther back in time than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and that's what the James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI or Mid-Infrared Instrument detectors ...



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