Global warming greatest in past decade September 01, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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Researchers confirm that surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer over the last 10 years than any time during the last 1300 years, and, if the climate scientists include the somewhat controversial data ... | |
 Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 75 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On August 8, the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, began the process of slowly throttling to full power. When its proton beams are circling ... | |
Ice Age lesson predicts a faster rise in sea level August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated. | |
 Global sea-rise levels by 2100 my be lower than some predict, says new study September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new University of Colorado at Boulder study concludes that ... | |
 Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. ... | |
 Scientists Develop New Method to Investigate Origin of Life September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary ... | |
 Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for ... | |
 Warmer seas linked to strengthening hurricanes September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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The theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic over the past 30 years is bolstered by a new study led by a Florida State University researcher. The study will be ... | |
Study: Teen suicide spike was no fluke September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A troubling study in the September 3rd Journal of the American Medical Association raises new concerns about kids committing suicide in this country. After a one year spike in the number of suicides, doctors were hoping ... | |
Not enough space: The dicey game of storing, backing up files September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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About five years ago, a technical disaster struck Fernando Santos: His computer hard drive failed. The San Francisco resident lost everything on it and had to reformat his drive. "I lost a lot of nice pictures," said Santos, ... | |
 World's glaciers facing huge threat: UN September 01, 2008 | User rating: 2.2 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The United Nations said Monday that swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers by the end of the century if global warming continues at its projected rate. | |
 Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp. Controversy has swirled around Toumai, ... | |
 Google takes aim at Microsoft with new Web browser September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search ... | |
LHC switch-on fears are completely unfounded: new research paper 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published on Friday, 5 September, provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)'s switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to ... | |
Court: US can block mad cow testing August 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday. | |
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