Hawaii's stark volcanic landscape that once served as a training ground for lunar astronauts might soon be a resource for Mars training.

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Rumors abound that eBay, the world's biggest and most successful online auction house, will buy out Skype Technologies, an Internet-based telecommunications group.

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This week's revelations involving a Chinese journalist sentenced to 10 years in jail for revealing state secrets indicates the weaknesses of human rights and corporate behavior in the virtual world.

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The Chinese government was reportedly on the verge Friday of slapping a ban on some Voice over Internet Protocol telephone service.

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Researchers say they've determined humans were influencing the planet's climate long before the Industrial Revolution.

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Three astronomers who in July discovered the solar system's "10th planet" this week announced finding two more objects far beyond the orbit of Pluto.

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The makers of a University of Southern California computer translation system consistently rated among the world's best are teaching their software something new: English grammar.

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Sep 09, 2005 2 / 5 (1) 0

Photonic crystals, with highly periodic structures that can be designed to control light, have the potential to revolutionize everything from computing to communications. But researchers need more effective and affordable ...

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Sep 09, 2005 1 / 5 (1) 0

Efficient and highly scalable new chemical synthesis methods developed at the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics have the potential to revolutionize the production of quantum ...

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Sep 09, 2005 5 / 5 (1) 0

One single photon. One solitary quantum pulse of electromagnetic radiation, no more, no less, produced by one single electron, will be the product of a new device under construction by nanotechnologists at ...

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Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by the University of Rochester has detected gaps ringing the dusty disks around two very young stars, which suggests that gas-giant planets have formed there. ...

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The recent hurricane Katrina disaster has resulted in an oil crisis. Apart from the shortage there are reports of oil spills. Interface Science Corporation has announced that the company is launching its ...

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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died last Saturday at age 80, may be known to the public as a conservative intellectual, but his rulings influenced much more than just the political landscape of the United States. ...

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Japan's Access said Friday it will buy out PalmSource for $324 million.

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Oil from storage tanks ruptured by Hurricane Katrina is threatening the Gulf of Mexico.

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