News tagged with vintage
Electronic tongue tastes wine variety, vintage
Aug 04, 2008 |
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You don't need a wine expert to identify a '74 Pinot Noir from Burgundy – a handheld "electronic tongue" devised by European scientists will tell you the grape variety and vintage at the press of a button.
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Microsoft co-founder Allen treated for lymphoma
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.
Red, White Wine, Fish And Science
Oct 29, 2009 |
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The long-standing rule of matching wine and food -- red wine with red meat and white wine with fish -- actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, ...
Microsoft's naming math: Vista plus 1 is 7
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft's new operating system launches Thursday, and you may be asking: How did we get to Windows 7? Did I miss 5 and 6?
A scientific basis the 'golden rule' of pairing wines and foods
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific explanation for one of the most widely known rules of thumb for pairing wine with food: "Red wine with red meat, white wine with fish." The scientists ...
NASA dusts off forgotten artifacts in new exhibit
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The spacesuit was one of three made for the last man to set foot on the moon, but Doug Fisher found it balled up and forgotten at the bottom of a cardboard box.
NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission.
Review: Need advice? Aardvark can sniff it out
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- I like to get advice from friends on all sorts of things, and love to give it even more. In the past few years, instant messaging, e-mail and Twitter have sped up the process, but there's still room ...
Happy 30th birthday, Walkman
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Thirty years ago Sony launched the Walkman, a gadget which revolutionised the way people around the world listened to music but has since been overtaken by an icon of the digital age -- the iPod.
Sometimes the next big thing is no big deal
May 07, 2009 |
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I unpacked my vintage earphones and compact disc player on a recent flight to Washington and settled back for a few hours of uninterrupted fumbling with CDs and untangling various cords and wires.
Discovered after 40 years: Moon dust hazard influenced by Sun's elevation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2009 |
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the Apollo Moon Program struggled with a minuscule, yet formidable enemy: sticky lunar dust. Four decades later, a new study reveals that forces compelling lunar dust to cling to surfaces ...
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