Physicists investigate how time moves forward 7 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and future. But, as scientists Edward Feng of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gavin Crooks of the Lawrence ... | |
 Solar energy can meet all the world's energy demands: expert 3 hours ago | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The world must speed up the deployment of solar power as it has the potential to meet all the world's energy needs, the chairman of an industry gathering which wrapped up Friday in Spain said. | |
Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their ... | |
 Robot Scout: Fly Me (Safely) to the Moon 6 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The first attempt to land humans on the moon -- Apollo 11 -- was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts ... | |
 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 ... | |
Pill that boosts productivity gaining favor, raising concerns among medical ethicists 3 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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In a place like Silicon Valley, where career prospects often hinge on a person's intelligence and ability to work hellishly long hours, "brain doping" probably was inevitable. | |
 Astronomer Discovers Upper Mass Limit for Black Holes 4 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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There appears to be an upper limit to how big the universe’s most massive black holes can get, according to new research led by a Yale University astrophysicist. | |
 Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search ... | |
 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. | |
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 ... | |
Comcast's new bandwidth limit irks some users 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Comcast's plan to place a cap on consumer Internet use worries some customers who have come to take unfettered Web surfing for granted, even though most users aren't affected by the move. | |
 Daimler and power group RWE to test electric car network in Berlin 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
German car maker Daimler and energy group RWE unveiled on Friday a pilot project to promote electric vehicles in Berlin that was inspired by one in London. | |
FDA posts list of potential problem drugs 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems, in an effort to better inform doctors and patients. | |
NASA delays Hubble mission 2 days due to storms 3 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- NASA has delayed next month's space shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope by two days. | |
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 ... | |
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