It is illegal in California to place most consumer electronics, such as computers and televisions, as well as fluorescent bulbs and batteries in the trash.

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Feb 10, 2006 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

A University of Pittsburgh panel has ruled that a biologist committed no scientific misconduct involving fraudulent South Korean cloning research.

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Feb 10, 2006 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

They may not be able to make love last, but a team of University of Florida researchers has figured out how to at least make the flowers go the distance.

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Two UC Davis researchers are cracking both the hieroglyphic code and cultural and mathematical understandings behind a 5,000-year calendar that is still used today in Mexico and Central America.

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Feb 10, 2006 4.8 / 5 (29) 0

By changing individual atoms in key places in proteins, Duke University chemists have found new evidence for the importance of comparatively weak "hydrogen bonds" in enabling stringlike proteins to fold into the maximally ...

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A trip to the neighborhood florist is proof positive that flowers have an array of scents to pique our senses, but researchers are also investigating the myriad other functions of these aromas--known to scientists ...

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An international team of astronomers released to the public the first data collected as part of the Radial Velocity Experiment, an ambitious spectroscopic survey aimed at measuring the speed, temperature, ...

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Feb 10, 2006 4.9 / 5 (13) 0

After an almost six-hour spacewalk last week, the crew began the week with a little time off; then returned to science investigations, routine maintenance and equipment tests.

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Feb 10, 2006 4.3 / 5 (9) 0

Rod Durmiendo is a software developer in Manila, and like many Filipinos, he sends money back home to family members living outside of the capital. In Durmiendo's case, he sends money to his brother in the southern city of ...

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Verizon's new mobile music on demand Vcast service is a customized version of WiderThan's music platform.

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Feb 10, 2006 3.5 / 5 (4) 0

A Northern Ireland newspaper Friday called for a ban on cell phones in hospitals due to the germs they can carry.

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Crystalline sapphire could help steer carbon nanotubes into orderly rows to create transistors and flexible electronics with, experts told UPI's Nano World.

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Feb 10, 2006 4.3 / 5 (26) 0

Whale meat, a cheap source of protein that helped Japan ward off malnutrition after World War II, has dropped in popularity.

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Feb 10, 2006 4.5 / 5 (11) 0

You've heard of the "Sundance Channel," the independent movie network on cable TV founded by Robert Redford. Someday you may be hearing more about the "Thumbdance Channel" and other mobile-phone nets, from FreemantleMedia, ...

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Feb 10, 2006 5 / 5 (2) 0

A feature of the Earth's atmosphere which has long puzzled scientists is replicated in the atmosphere of Saturn, according to new research.

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Feb 10, 2006 4.3 / 5 (23) 0