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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 55 weeks 5 days 10 hours 45 minutes ago
"Chemistry look what you've done to me," Donna Summer crooned in Science of Love, and so, it seems, she was right. Just in time for Valentine's Day, a panel of scientists examined the mystery of what happens when hearts throb and lips lock. Kissing, it turns...(more)
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Interesting story, but a warning: Russia is thick with scientists who believe in UFOs and claim dinosaurs still walk the earth, etc. Anyhow, from the story:
"Russian scientists working at a 'graveyard' of extinct mammoths and woolly rhinos in Siberia claim to have found a bacterium...(more)
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submitted by M Walker 112 weeks 2 days 9 hours 58 minutes ago
UC Berkeley researchers analyzing fossil bones of the big beasts have found that they matured early, grew fast and were ready for sex before their teen years.
But the dinosaurs also had a heavy price to pay: After an early grow spurt, they died young, the scientists...(more)
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submitted by M Walker 56 weeks 3 days 2 hours 41 minutes ago
The Greek god of thunder and lightning had Earthly beginnings, and scientists think they know where.
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AFP - Facing budgetary constraints, President Barack Obama will scale back US space ambitions, abandoning plans to return to the moon by 2020 and confining NASA to lower orbits for years to come.
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The 1,400-year-old octagonal press measures 21ft by 54ft and was discovered in southern Israel, around 25 miles south of both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
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submitted by Collin Frost for team Batboy's revenge! 96 weeks 3 days 17 hours 45 minutes ago
The Allied airmen and women of World War II were certainly brave and skilled in battle, but even they couldn't win the war on their own.
Plagued in the early, low-tech years of the war by dangerous afflictions such as altitude and decompression sickness, pilots got some...(more)
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submitted by MikeK 125 weeks 1 hour 46 minutes ago
PC World - Much of the attention for Apple has been on the iPhone lately, but the company's hardware business is showing strength too. Apple's hardware shipments for the third-quarter surged 15.9 percent over the same quarter last year, according to a report released Wednesday by...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team kids stuff 56 weeks 2 days 11 hours 23 minutes ago
You might think you're pretty hot stuff because you've figured out how to change your Facebook status from your iPhone, but you've got nothing on nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen.
This young prodigy from Singapore is fluent in six programming languages, according to a BBC report this week,...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 2 weeks 6 days 6 hours 37 minutes ago
NASA's Stardust spacecraft zooming through the solar system fired up its engines this week to fine-tune its approach to a bruised comet.
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submitted by Jazz 94 weeks 2 hours 58 minutes ago
Astronomers have seen the aftermath of spectacular stellar explosions known as supernovae before, but until now no one has witnessed a star dying in real time. While looking at another object in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, using NASA’s orbiting Swift telescope, Carnegie-Princeton fellows* Alicia Soderberg...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 8 weeks 2 days 10 hours 36 minutes ago
PC World - Hardware vendors at last week's Consumer Electronics Show showed off numerous new tablet and notebook designs. Some offerings, including the Lenovo Skylight Smartbook, earned cheers. Others -- yeah, we're looking at you, Microsoft-HP tablet -- heard mostly jeers. Apple wasn't at CES, of...(more)
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