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Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (26) | comments 7

Homer's Iliad tells the story of Troy, a city besieged by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Today, a lone robot sits besieged in the sands of Troy while engineers and scientists plot its escape.


Galileo satellite platform tests under way

Galileo satellite platform tests under way

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The engineering model of the first Galileo satellites has completed platform integration tests at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome. The platform is now undergoing functional testing. ...


Poll finds sexting common among young people (AP)

Poll finds sexting common among young people

Technology / Other

created 11 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Think your kid is not "sexting"? Think again. Sexting - sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online - is fairly commonplace among young people, despite sometimes grim ...


Nicotine Levels Higher in Children Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in the Home

Medicine & Health / Health

created 12 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative’s efforts for a home smoking ban, according ...


Kindle DX

Will 2010 be the breakout year for e-book readers?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 16 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

When Sheila Effan found a Kindle electronic reader among her gifts last Christmas, one of her first thoughts was whether she would miss the smell and feel of real paper. She got her answer five months later.


Pulitzers change rules to allow more online work

Technology / Internet

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Pulitzer Prize board announced Wednesday that it will open its doors wider to journalism entries from online-only news publications.


Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes (AP)

Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the lakes to the Mississippi ...


A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease

A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease (w/ Video)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It turns out that wearing a cap is good for you, at least if you are a mammal cell.


BetOnSports fined $28 million, gets probation

Technology / Internet

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Defunct online gambling site BetOnSports.com has been sentenced to probation and a $28.2 million fine that lawyers on both sides say probably will never be paid.


Santa's Sleigh: NC State Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick?s Christmas Magic

Santa's Sleigh: Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick's Christmas Magic

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Santa skeptics have long considered St. Nick’s ability to deliver toys to the world’s good girls and boys in the course of one night a scientific impossibility. But new research shows that ...



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