 Obama has huge lead over McCain -- in cyberspace October 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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If the US presidential election was being held in cyberspace, Barack Obama would win in a landslide. The Democratic candidate has raised tens of millions of dollars more than Republican John McCain online ... | |
 This is your grid on brains October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that ... | |
 StumbleUpon steps up online discovery service October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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StumbleUpon stepped up its personalized Website recommendation service on Wednesday by launching an online query page and alliances that include The Huffington Post and Rolling Stone. | |
 Taking a Norse to water: New clues to Viking voyages October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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The mouse could help lift the veil on how the Norwegian Vikings established a seafaring kingdom that ranged from the tip of Scotland and Iceland to Greenland and Newfoundland, scientists said on Tuesday. | |
Groundbreaking discovery may lead to stronger antibiotics October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The last decade has seen a dramatic decline in the effectiveness of antibiotics, resulting in a mounting public health crisis across the world. A new breakthrough by University of Virginia researchers provides physicians ... | |
Canada's shores saved animals from devastating climate change 252 million years ago October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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The shorelines of ancient Alberta, British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic were an important refuge for some of the world's earliest animals, most of which were wiped out by a mysterious global extinction event some 252 ... | |
 Tectonic fragment linked to Tokyo's quake peril: scientists October 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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A massive slab of rock lurking beneath the Kanto Plain on the central Japanese island of Honshu is a major source of the earthquake threat that dogs Tokyo, scientists said on Sunday. | |
Are we trading energy conservation for toxic air emissions? October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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A team of Yale scientists has found that certain countries and some U.S. states stand to benefit from the use of compact fluorescent lighting more than others in the fight against global warming. Some places may even produce ... | |
Cells that Avoid Suicide May Become Cancerous October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a cell's chromosomes lose their ends, the cell usually kills itself to stem the genetic damage. But University of Utah biologists discovered how those cells can evade suicide and start down the path ... | |
Switching e-mail addresses doesn't have to hurt October 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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In many ways, changing your e-mail address is harder than changing your mailing address. There's no post office to make sure that your mail gets forwarded and senders are notified of the switch. Plus, you have to deal with ... | |
New findings indicate HIV/AIDS pandemic began around 1900, earlier than previously thought October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in colonial Africa set the stage for the HIV/AIDS pandemic. | |
E-mail accounts easy to break into October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The hacker who infiltrated Sarah Palin's e-mail account last month may have intended to embarrass the Republican vice presidential candidate, but the prank also exposed one of the Internet industry's most uncomfortable secrets: ... | |
Mystery illness kills four in South Africa: official October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Four people, two of them Zambians, have died in Johannesburg of a mystery flu-like illness, the health department spokesman said Monday. | |
 Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found -- Discovered in Nevada October 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters ... | |
Outer Solar System Not as Crowded as Astronomers Thought October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a treasure hunt comes up empty-handed, the hunters are understandably disappointed. But when astronomers don't find what they are looking for, the defeat can provide as much information as a successful ... | |
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