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submitted by Robby for team staff news 11 weeks 5 days 12 hours 51 minutes ago
At least six dust devils have been imaged by the Phoenix Mars lander the first ever observed by the probe
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 4 days 14 hours 50 minutes ago
3M's new Mobile ID Reader scans MRZ and RF chip data from passports and visas and immediately checks them against local or international watch lists by using wifi or GSM/GPRS EDGE networks. It seems like a great tool to further make you feel like you're living...(more)
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submitted by JKM 58 weeks 2 days 4 hours 15 minutes ago
Apple just stated in their earnings call that out of 1.4 million iPhones sold since launch, 250,000 are unlocked. They know this from subtracting the number of iPhones activated on AT&T from the number of iPhones sold total—which is 250k. That's a farmhouse load of unlocked...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 6 days 23 hours 51 minutes ago
Ten years ago, cosmologists discovered they were living a lie. The expansion of the universe was not slowing down as a result of gravity, as they had long believed: It was speeding up. The working explanation, though by no means the definitive one, is that...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 5 days 19 hours 50 minutes ago
As election day approaches, self-confessed floating voters have often already made up their minds they just don't know it yet
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AFP - The International Whaling Commission will next month start negotiations in a bid to find a compromise over restrictions on whale hunting, a newspaper said Saturday.
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submitted by AB 83 weeks 5 days 10 hours 54 minutes ago
A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia may be playing a crucial role in the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that is wiping out bees across the United States, UC San Francisco researchers said Wednesday.
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submitted by elvis 11 weeks 5 days 12 hours 32 minutes ago
In Alaska, voters have twice voted to outlaw aerial hunting -- because it's so outrageously unsportsmanlike. Both times a loophole permitted it to continue.
As governor, Palin both actively supports aerial hunting and, in fact, participates in it. Oh, and the grizzly hide her father shot that's...(more)
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submitted by Grace 27 weeks 3 days 4 hours 42 minutes ago
When powerful earthquakes strike anywhere in the world, their seismic waves go rippling through the ground and trigger smaller quakes thousands of miles away where no one had ever expected them, scientists have discovered.
Geophysicists reported Sunday that they have studied records on the aftermath of 15...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 10 weeks 2 days 6 hours 51 minutes ago
Ancient marine mammal bones, some showing signs of butchery, suggest that Neanderthals were adaptable and intelligent hunters
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