An unusual 120-foot-long, two-seat prototype aircraft is being developed in Ohio in hopes it will usher in a new transportation era.

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Feb 01, 2006 4.1 / 5 (27) 0

It may still be "king of the beasts," but the African lion's kingdom is shrinking, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society reported.

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Feb 01, 2006 3.9 / 5 (11) 0

Clues to finding current or past life on Mars now or at some point in the past begins with an examination of Earth's most extreme environments and the adaptable microscopic life that thrives there, according ...

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Feb 01, 2006 3.5 / 5 (12) 0

It's a case of evolutionary detective work. Biology researchers at Lewis & Clark College and the University of Arizona have found evidence for an ancient transfer of a toxin between ancestors of two very dissimilar organisms--spiders ...

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Feb 01, 2006 3.8 / 5 (12) 0

The U.S. project office for ITER, a major international fusion experiment, is relocating from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to optimize the roles of the two Department of Energy national lab ...

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Feb 01, 2006 3.7 / 5 (11) 0

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UT-Battelle today announced a wide-ranging collaborative agreement to share facilities, staff and scientific resources aimed at significantly increasing ...

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Australian scientists say a deadly facial-tumor disease threatening a carnivorous Australian marsupial known as the Tasmanian devil might be infectious.

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Amazon.com Wednesday launched a program to allow authors to post messages directly onto the company's homepage.

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Feb 01, 2006 3 / 5 (2) 0

As human beings, its easy to feel big - we have machines that allow us to see particles that are less than a billionth of a metre big, we've built towering skyscrapers hundreds of metres tall, we fly thousands ...

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Feb 01, 2006 4.1 / 5 (22) 0

Expedition 12 Commander and NASA Science Officer Bill McArthur activated the Protein Crystal Growth Monitoring by Digital Holographic Microscope for the International Space Station, or PromISS-4 experiment on Jan. 19. It ...

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Philips Electronics, austriamicrosystems, MAGWEL, IMEC and the universities of Lisbon, Bucharest and Delft today announced that they have joined forces in the 'CHAMELEON-RF' project - a European Union IST (Information Society ...

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Feb 01, 2006 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

Developing radios no larger than a grain of sand to increase the drilling efficiency of oil wells, University of Houston engineers see promise for reducing prices at the gas pump.

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Feb 01, 2006 4 / 5 (3) 0

Much as the famed starship Enterprise would deploy a deflector shield to evade enemy attack, tumor cells are capable of switching on a molecular force field of their own to fend off treatments aimed at killing them. Now University ...

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A British study suggests malaria epidemics can be predicted up to five months in advance by using a climate forecasting computer model.

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Feb 01, 2006 3.8 / 5 (5) 0

Nano has officially become the most misused word in the English language. Everything from the Ipod Nano to anything smaller than a Mac truck gets “nanoed” by clueless – or savvy, take your pick – marketing ...

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Feb 01, 2006 4.2 / 5 (73) 0