An increasing number of Americans reportedly favor donating to health charities that have a policy against funding animal experiments.

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Nov 30, 2005 1.8 / 5 (5) 0

Planets are everywhere these days. They have been spotted around more than 150 stars, and evidence is growing that they also circle "failed," or miniature, stars called brown dwarfs. Now, astronomers using ...

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Nov 30, 2005 4.6 / 5 (7) 0

Maxtor Corp. was named among Silicon Valley's best places to work by San Jose Magazine.

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Nov 30, 2005 4 / 5 (2) 0

A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star. It would do this by "nulling" out the light of the parent star by exploiting its ...

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Nov 30, 2005 4.8 / 5 (11) 0

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) will take a journey 66 million years back in time on December 1, to showcase Jane, a Tyrannosaurus Rex exhibit at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, IL. Dozens of presenters, ...

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Nov 30, 2005 3 / 5 (2) 0

Life may have had a tough time getting started in the ancient environment that left its mark in the Martian rock layers examined by NASA's Opportunity rover. The most thorough analysis yet of the rover's discoveries ...

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Nov 30, 2005 3.5 / 5 (4) 0

InPhase Technologies announced that Turner Network Television became the first television network to air content originating on holographic storage.

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Nov 30, 2005 4.4 / 5 (7) 0

One of the most elusive questions in science has finally been answered: How do bees fly? Although the issue is not as profound as how the universe began or what kick-started life on earth, the physics of bee ...

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Nov 30, 2005 4.2 / 5 (62) 0

One of the most powerful computer clusters in the academic world has been created at the California Institute of Technology in order to unlock the mysteries of earthquakes. The Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences' ...

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Nov 30, 2005 4.3 / 5 (12) 0

Yale University scientists have mapped, for the first time, the proteins and kinase signaling network that control how cells of higher organisms operate.

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Nov 30, 2005 3.4 / 5 (7) 0

Engineers at Purdue University are the first researchers to create a material that has a "negative index of refraction" in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications, a step that could lead to better ...

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Nov 30, 2005 4.3 / 5 (11) 0

F-Secure launched Wednesday a new system to protect Internet service providers from network abuse by buying out ROMmon.

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Nov 30, 2005 4 / 5 (1) 0

Freedom to choose what gets fed into a television set piece by piece is not only better for parents of small children, but also for cost-conscious consumers as well, or so the Federal Communications Commission's chief argued ...

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Nov 30, 2005 4 / 5 (1) 0

In yet another step to woo foreign investors and new players to its burgeoning telecom sector, India has decided to open up the latest mobile rage of 3G services only to new telecom players that have not started operations ...

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Nov 30, 2005 3.6 / 5 (8) 0

Strong turbulence in the upper atmosphere, a second ionospheric layer and possible lightning were among the surprises found by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI) during the descent to Titan’s ...

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Nov 30, 2005 4.4 / 5 (5) 0