 New Orleans regroups after dodging Gustav bullet September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Emergency workers hustled on Tuesday to revive a hurricane-battered New Orleans area nearly devoid of power and people, as evacuees waiting in far-away shelters clamored to return home. | |
Cell division study resolves 50-year-old-debate, may aid cancer research September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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A new study at Oregon State University has finally resolved a controversy that cellular biologists have been arguing over for nearly 50 years, with findings that may aid research on everything from birth defects and genetic ... | |
 Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 100 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at ... | |
 Internet phone fits inside laptop September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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There are literally dozens of Internet phone services these days. These services use a technology known as Voice over Internet Protocol, or more commonly "VoIP." The idea behind VoIP is fairly simply to understand ... | |
 Trichoplax genome sequenced -- 'rosetta stone' for understanding evolution September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature's most primitive multicellular ... | |
 Google chief admits to 'defensive component' of browser launch September 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Google's chief executive admitted Thursday there was a "defensive component" to the Web search giant's launch of its own Internet browser, thereby pitting it against Microsoft's dominant software. | |
Caught in a trap: bumblebees vs. robotic crab spiders September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Bumblebees learn to avoid camouflaged predators by sacrificing foraging speed for predator detection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London. | |
 Researchers Find 'Junk DNA' May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Out of the 3 billion genetic letters that spell out the human genome, Yale scientists have found a handful that may have contributed to the evolutionary changes in human limbs that enabled ... | |
Gait may be associated with orgasmic ability September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official ... | |
 New technique makes corn ethanol process more efficient September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are proposing to borrow a process used in breweries and wastewater treatment facilities to make corn ethanol more energy efficient. They are ... | |
Thumbs up -- a tiny ancestral remnant lends developmental edge to humans September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Subtle genetic changes that confer an evolutionary advantage upon a species, such as the dexterity characteristic of the human hand, while difficult to detect and even harder to reproduce in a model system, have nevertheless ... | |
Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US 22 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal ... | |
 Pyrenees glaciers will melt by 2050: Spanish study 7 hours ago | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Climate change will melt the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains before 2050, a group of Spanish researchers said Friday. | |
 Satellite phones make cowboys wildfire sentinels August 31, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
(AP) -- The craggy gullies where Idaho cowboy Paul Nettleton runs 1,200 head of cattle are often precious minutes from reliable cell phone coverage. That could spell disaster in this region where sudden summertime ... | |
 Plague threatens prairie dogs, endangered ferrets August 31, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation's largest colonies of ... | |
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