US senator wants Baidu to stop censorship
Assistant Senate majority leader Richard Durbin is calling on leading Chinese Internet firm Baidu to protect human rights and stop censoring search results.
May 04, 2011
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NASA: Blown circuit found in shuttle fuse box
(AP) -- NASA says a switch box removed from space shuttle Endeavour has a blown circuit.
May 04, 2011
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Review: Iconia is dual-screen laptop, but why?
There's an amusing trend among gadget makers: They keep trying to improve their products by adding a second screen. All too often, this is less like adding a second patty to a hamburger and more like adding ...
May 04, 2011
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New statistic aims to answer question: How good is that goalie?
Dwayne Roloson of the Tampa Bay Lightning has embodied the role of the prototypical Stanley Cup playoff hot goaltender, leading his team to a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals against the top seeded ...
May 04, 2011
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Study: Prostate cancer surgery helps younger men
Men under 65 with early prostate cancer had better survival odds if they had surgery right away instead of waiting for treatment only if their cancer got worse, a study in Sweden found.
May 04, 2011
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Attention, please -- how innovations and Nobel Prize winners make it
"The rich-get-richer effect," is famous not only in sociology. It applies to the success of innovators as well. But if attention is paid only to people who are already at the top, how are scientific revolutions possible? ...
May 04, 2011
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News Corp. net profit down 21 percent (Update)
The lack of a new blockbuster hit like 2009's "Avatar" helped push third-quarter profits down 21 percent, media and entertainment giant News Corporation said Wednesday.
May 04, 2011
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Facebook gets big slice of online display ad pie
Facebook served up nearly a third of the 1.11 trillion display ads delivered to US Internet users in the first three months of this year, industry tracker comScore said on Wednesday.
May 04, 2011
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Pet? Companion animal? Ethicists say term matters
(AP) -- Are you the "owner" of a dog or cat? Maybe you should consider yourself a "human caregiver" instead. And Fido and Fluffy? Perhaps they should be "companion animals," not just "pets."
May 04, 2011
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Newly discovered plant fossil reveals more than age
Over 100 million years ago, the understory of late Mesozoic forests was dominated by a diverse group of plants of the class Equisetopsida. Today, only one genus from this group, Equisetum (also known as hor ...
May 04, 2011
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Hitting target in cancer fight now easier with new nanoparticle platform
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to use nanoparticles to deliver payloads of cancer-fighting drugs to tumors in the body could herald a fundamental change in chemotherapy treatment. But scientists are still at a relatively early ...
May 04, 2011
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USGS economic analysis updated for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
The U.S. Geological Survey assessment on the economic recoverability of undiscovered, conventional oil and gas resources within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) and adjacent state waters is now available.
May 04, 2011
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AIDA 2.0 brings a full panel, plus some, location display to drivers (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you remember the AIDA (Affective, Intelligent Driving Agent) system, which came out roughly a year and a half ago, then you remember that it was a joint project, made by MIT and Volkswagen, ...
May 04, 2011
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Researchers show heparan sulfate adjusts functions of growth factor proteins
When the human genome project produced a map of human genes, the number of genes in humans turned out to be relatively small, approximately the same number as in primitive nematode worms. The difference in complexity between ...
May 04, 2011
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Apple updates iPhone to address privacy worries
Apple is updating the iPhone to reduce the amount of time the device stores information about its users' whereabouts.
May 04, 2011
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