Archive: 09/20/2005
Hubble finds mysterious disk of blue stars around a black hole
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though the light ...
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Rogers, Videotron team on wireless service
Rogers Wireless and Videotron signed an agreement Tuesday to provide an array of telecom and Internet services to Canadian customers starting next year.
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Global plan prepared to save amphibians
A plan approved by a recent environmental meeting in Washington, D.C., to save the world's amphibians from extinction may cost more than $400 million.
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Museums prepare for creationist visitors
U.S. museums are preparing for increasingly vocal challenges to evolution exhibits, including those of the Washington-based National Science Foundation.
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Tokyo Game Show's soaring allure
Long gone are the days when computer games were seen as a bastion for awkward teenagers. From the commuter eagerly playing a game on his cellular phone on the train to tiny tots playing games with characters from their favorite ...
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Wisconsin lawmakers consider cloning ban
Wisconsin reportedly is considering a ban on cloning that critics say would undermine embryonic stem cell research in the state where it was discovered.
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Vo-Dinh sees new journal advancing nano-bio field
Editor in Chief Tuan Vo-Dinh envisions the new international peer-reviewed journal NanoBiotechnology providing a forum that leads to "explosive growth" where nanotechnology and biomedical sciences converge.
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Hitachi Software to unveil reform plan
Hitachi Software Engineering will be focusing more on developing information security systems, a Japanese financial daily said Tuesday.
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Bill limits Fed power to protect species
The chairman of the House Resources Committee has introduced a bill in Washington to limit federal powers to protect endangered species.
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Canon ranked as best co. by Nikkei
Photocopying giant Canon topped a Japanese survey of top companies Tuesday.
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N.Z. Telecom has hot spots for PlayStation
Telecom New Zealand has opened up its wireless hot spots for connections to PlayStation Portable game devices.
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Breakthrough in micro-device fabrication combines biology and synthetic chemistry
Nanostructured micro-devices may be mass produced at a lower cost, and with a wider variety of shapes and compositions than ever before, for dramatic improvements in device performance by utilizing very small biologically ...
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Global mobile-phone subscribers hit 2B
There are now over 2 billion mobile subscribers around the world, an industry group reported Sunday.
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Study: Preschool kids have math skills
Harvard psychologists in Cambridge, Mass., say 5-year-olds are able to grasp numeric abstractions and arithmetic concepts even without formal education.
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