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Dogs of war: Historian shows the role of canines in World War II

Seventy years since the United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a BYU historian has a new look at an often overlooked breed of soldier.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NOAA Locates U.S. Navy Ship Sunk in World War II Battle

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

DNA may identify sailor 68 years after Pearl Harbor

The call came unexpectedly a few weeks ago, the sharp ring and a calm voice asking whether she was Starring Winfield's sister.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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Red, white and solar: 160,000 military homes to get rooftop arrays

The last time I checked in with SolarCity was back in June when underwater hockey enthusiast Lyndon Rive's San Mateo, Calif.-based photovoltaic powerhouse had just received a whopping $280 million investment from that ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Historian: 3 possible Japanese airmen for skull

(AP) -- The skull found in Pearl Harbor believed to be from a Japanese pilot in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack could belong to one of three airmen who were aboard a torpedo plane that was shot down where the surprising discovery ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nation's fight against cyber intruders goes local

The next frontier in the fight to keep crucial electronic networks safe from harm will play out as close to home as Town Hall and require more involvement from private industry, which controls 85 percent of the infrastructure, ...

Technology / Internet

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

WWII shipwrecks could threaten US coast

On the evening of Feb. 2, 1942, an unarmed tanker with 66,000 barrels of crude oil on board was steaming in the Atlantic, about 90 miles off Ocean City, Md. Without warning, it was struck by German torpedoes. The attack set ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 17, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 11

Tut, tut: Microbial growth in pharaoh's tomb suggests burial was a rush job

In the tomb of King Tutankhamen, the elaborately painted walls are covered with dark brown spots that mar the face of the goddess Hathor, the silvery-coated baboons -- in fact, almost every surface.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

ONR's TechSolutions creating green ideas that light up ships and submarines

One Sailor's request to replace humming fluorescent bulbs with a quiet alternative inspired the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to create the Solid State Lighting (SSL) project, currently being evaluated aboard ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stuxnet worm brings cyber warfare out of virtual world

A mysterious computer worm that has struck Iran has raised the spectre of a cyber attack as a new weapon of war, a danger NATO identifies as a key threat, experts say.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MIT historian examines path of war in new book

"Japanese psychology," wrote Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan at the outset of World War II, is "fundamentally unlike that of any Western nation." The Japanese mentality “cannot be measured ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Is there really a cyberwar? Term might be misused

(AP) -- Is there really a "cyberwar" going on? Some officials and computer security companies say yes, arguing that armies of hackers are stealing online secrets and using the Internet to attack infrastructure such as power ...

Technology / Internet

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NATO's cyber-brains gaze at the future of war

Behind the walls of a high-security lab, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's top cyber-minds are trying to predict the evolution of conflict in an Internet-dependent world.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 24, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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