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Mammoth Mystery: The Beasts Final Years
Posted by: STONERS 22 hours, 24 minutes agoWoolly mammoths once roamed the Earth for more than a half-million years, ranging from Europe to Asia to North America. These Ice Age giants vanished ...
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Comcast Sues the FCC Over "Net Neutrality"
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 18 hours, 46 minutes agoYou didn't seriously think Comcast would roll over without a fight, did you? It was only a matter of time after FCC's decision ...
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Gardasil: Safety of Genetically Engineered HPV Vaccine Still in Question
Posted by: engineer 23 hours, 57 minutes agoYou can't go anywhere these days without seeing a poster promoting vaccination against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) for prevention of the infection causing genital warts ...
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Four-Way SSD Round-Up, OCZ, Super Talent, Mtron
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 22 hours, 1 minute agoSolid State Drive technology is set to turn the storage industry on its ear; there is little doubt of this. When you consider the intrinsic ...
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Sea Level Rise May Be Twice More Than Expected
Posted by: DiffeeOnline 21 hours, 54 minutes agoIf the team's findings are right, some 145 million people living within 1 meter (3.3 feet) of sea level would be in danger ...
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Google's Chrome Already Tops Opera
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 10 hours, 12 minutes agoOpera is much-loved, but its more of a cult browser. Its users swear by it, but it's never been able to make inroads into ...
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Sony Recalls Notebooks Over Possible Overheating
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 23 hours, 30 minutes agoAt least we can say: this Sony recall is not about batteries. It is about a potential overheating / fire issue, though.
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Test your Website: A 57-Point Checklist for Maximum Usability
Posted by: bizexpert 9 hours, 57 minutes agoSo you've got a website, but do you know whether it's usable or not? The answer to this question can make the difference ...
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Star Clusters and Usain Bolt
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 day agoFrom the “physics answers the questions you really care about” file, some friends have treated the Olympic 100-meter dash as an astrophysics problem, and figured ...
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Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory
Posted by: Neophile 18 hours, 11 minutes agoScientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory , revealing not only where a remembered experience ...
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Hearing loss might not be a problem in the future | www.amazus.org
Posted by: pyderi 2 hours, 28 minutes agoThanks to a team of scientists we could be facing the cure for hearing loss. This team has managed to produce key ear cells in ...
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Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 day agoAstronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona ...
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iPhone "Special" at Best Buy offers setup w/ accessory purchase (offered for free at Apple stores)
Posted by: DiffeeOnline 11 hours, 27 minutes agoAccording to next week's circular, Best Buy will be promoting free in-store phone and email setup -- a complimentary offering at Apple's own retail ...
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Mars rover climbs out of crater to focus on plains
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 day agoAlmost a year after it drove into the Victoria Crater on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover last week made its way back out. Opportunity left ...
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Another Human-Powered Search Engine Hits the Streets
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 17 hours, 49 minutes agoToday ubExact launched its "direct navigation, action-based search engine" in beta. One setback to building a human-powered search site from scratch is that ubExact lacks ...
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