Polar bears could become extinct over the next century as their habitat melts away, a report warns.

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A new technique for detecting forged photographs will help newspapers and magazines check celebrity pictures that might have been doctored to make them more newsworthy, and prevent hackers from tampering with sensitive legal ...

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Some 400 Lufthansa employees at Frankfurt Airport (Germany) have begun testing fingerprint-based check-in and boarding procedures. In its efforts to make its airport handling processes faster, more secure and more efficient, ...

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National Semiconductor Corp. today introduced a family of RF power detectors for wireless applications that require high frequency and range, such as mobile phone power controls and power amplifier modules, wireless local ...

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A new research article outlines another aspect of Quantum Cryptography In "No Signaling and quantum key distribution", a new paper published in Physical Review Letters 95 (010503 – 2005), Barrett, Hardy and Kent give the firs ...

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Verizon Wireless and Motorola, Inc. today announce the availability of the Motorola E815 consumer handset. The latest addition to the V CAST lineup, the Motorola E815 delivers Verizon Wireless' hot V CAST ...

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A revolutionary new laser under development at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could drastically reduce casualties by U.S. forces. The Solid State Heat Capacity Laser program has already successfully ach ...

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A genetic study finds Polynesians and the indigenous inhabitants of Taiwan are closely related.

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A new U.S. study finds that children with televisions in their bedrooms have lower scores on standardized tests.

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Albany NanoTech, a leading global center for nanotechnology research, development and deployment, today announced the delivery of a new state of the art tool for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography research, ...

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Dust and gas are seen in these images of Comet 9P/Tempel 1, as observed with the 1-metre ESA Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope, located at the Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife, Canary Islands. ...

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ESA's XMM-Newton observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 revealed that the object is a weak X-ray source. These data were acquired on 4 July 2005 by one of the EPIC X-ray cameras on board the spacecraft during the ...

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Scientists using the Swift satellite witnessed a tale of fire and ice today, as NASA's Deep Impact probe slammed into the frozen comet Tempel 1. The collision briefly lit the dim comet's surface and exposed, ...

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Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates, according to a new Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study.

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On the eve of this week's Group of Eight summit that is to include climate change talks, Europe's pollution costs jumped to record levels.

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