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Army to test XM25 'smart' grenade launcher rifle (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The US Army has recently announced plans to test the high-tech XM25 airburst grenade launcher this summer in Afghanistan, unleashing a weapon that veterans predict could be a game-changing ...

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Yahoo confirms misleading info on new CEO's resume

(AP) -- A disgruntled Yahoo shareholder questioned the qualifications and integrity of recently hired CEO Scott Thompson after exposing a misrepresentation about the executive's education.

Technology / Business

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The fireballs of February

In the middle of the night on February 13th, something disturbed the animal population of rural Portal, Georgia. Cows started mooing anxiously and local dogs howled at the sky. The cause of the commotion was ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Netflix strikes movie deal with Weinstein Co.

(AP) -- Netflix has locked up the right to show "The Artist" and other movies from The Weinstein Co. on its Internet video service before the films are released to the leading pay-TV channels.

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Epic race to South Pole remembered on 100th anniversary

One hundred years ago Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen won the race to the South Pole in a dramatic and ultimately fatal duel with British adventurer Robert Scott that captured the world's attention.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ex-US general warns of growing cyber threat

A US adversary would currently be unable to bring down the entire US electrical grid using cyber weapons but such a scenario is conceivable within two to five years, the former vice chairman of the Joint ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Historian follows the guns

The geo-political map of the world changed many times through the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries but historian Brian DeLay sees a fresh narrative to help make sense of this transformation. At the center ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pseudomonas deploys a toxin delivery machine to breach cell walls of rivals without hurting itself

Microbiologists have uncovered a sneaky trick by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa to oust rivals. It deploys a toxin delivery machine to breach cell walls of competitors without hurting itself.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Disease claims young victims in Ivory Coast crisis

(AP) -- Kneeling family members bent in prayer over two little bodies wrapped in sheets on the grass in the hospital grounds. Then two women among them released heart-rending wails.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stardust flyby '1,000 percent successful'

In most cases, a Valentine's Day rendezvous that resembles a flight through artillery fire is less than ideal.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

S. Korean hackers trade cyber blows with N. Korea

Computer hackers from South and North Korea are waging an apparent propaganda battle in cyberspace, less than two months after their militaries traded artillery fire across the tense sea border.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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