Archive: 09/21/2005
Nigeria reassures on cell-phone safety
Nigeria is reassuring the public that cell phones pose no verifiable health threat as cheap and second-hand units gain popularity.
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NASA Selects New Space Shuttle Program Manager
NASA announced Tuesday the selection of N. Wayne Hale Jr. as manager of the Space Shuttle Program. He has been deputy manager since July 2003 and succeeds Bill Parsons, who returned to NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi ...
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Earth's Wobble Burps
Open University researchers have uncovered startling new evidence about an extreme period of a sudden, fatal dose of global warming some 180 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs. The scientists' findings could ...
Sep 21, 2005 |
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The Roots Of Civilization Trace Back To ... Roots
About five to seven million years ago, when the lineage of humans and chimpanzees split, edible root plants similar to rutabagas and turnips may have been one of the reasons.
Sep 21, 2005 |
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New Star Survey Sheds Light On Milky Way's Evolution
The first survey of the entire northern Milky Way for forty years is shedding fresh light on the life-cycle of stars in our astronomical backyard.
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Venus Express Completes Integration And Testing
The Venus Express spacecraft is nearing completion now as the Gallium Arsenide Triple Junction Solar Arrays are integrated and tested, which will provide the required 1100 Watts of power to the spacecraft systems.
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The Web: Tools that manage app access
Oracle Corp. last week debuted new software that can be used to help grant -- or deny -- users access to information on PCs, and industry insiders told UPI's The Web the company's moves could provide momentum for a promising ...
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Japan mobile-phone sales dip 0.8 percent
Mobile-phone sales in Japan fell 0.8 percent in the first half of 2005, a research group said Wednesday.
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Toshiba Develops 30Gb Dual-Layer HD DVD-R Discs
Toshiba today reconfirmed the flexibility and expandability of the HD DVD format with the announcement of a 30GB dual-layer HD DVD-R (recordable) disc that extends the capacity for a write-once next generation DVD disc.
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Deep Impact Comet May Have Formed in Giant Planets Region
Comet Tempel-1 may have been born in the region of the solar system occupied by Uranus and Neptune today, according to one possibility from an analysis of the comet's debris blasted into space by NASA's Deep ...
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Nature gives a lesson in armor design
The ocean is a perilous environment for a soft-bodied creature like a sea snail, so nature gives it an advanced nanostructured armor system that is stiff and strong yet lightweight. It's called a shell. Now ...
Sep 21, 2005 |
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First Baby Photo of Stellar Twins
Newborn stars are difficult to photograph. They tend to hide in the nebulous stellar nurseries where they formed, enshrouded by thick layers of dust. Now, Smithsonian astronomer T.K. Sridharan (Harvard-Smithsonian ...
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Traffic pollution - measuring the real damage
Traffic fumes from individual vehicles are decreasing every year as engines become cleaner, but there are more vehicles on the road and the number continues to grow. The long term effects of living in urban ...
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Study: Sugar helps control cell division
Johns Hopkins scientists in Baltimore say they've discovered a deceptively simple sugar is really a critical regulator of cells' natural life cycle.
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