For the first time, a text has been found in Old Persian language that shows the written language in use for practical recording and not only for royal display. The text is inscribed on a damaged clay tablet from the Persepolis ...
Archaeology
Jun 18, 2007
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U.S. scientists are trying to determine the affect the Phoenix Mars Lander's descent will have on later soil experiments on the Red Planet.
Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2007
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The population of the official Texas state bird -- the mockingbird -- is in sharp decline, experts say.
Jun 18, 2007
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Wildlife officials in China released a rare paddlefish into Yangtze River Sunday after nursing it back to health from injuries inflicted by fishermen.
Jun 18, 2007
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The Arizona monsoon season produces up to a third of the region's annual rainfall but it is tough for forecasters to predict.
Environment
Jun 18, 2007
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A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force – the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged ...
General Physics
Jun 18, 2007
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An international research team has documented the link between the way an animal moves and the dimensions of an important part of its organ of balance, the three semicircular canals of the inner ear on each side of the skull. ...
Jun 18, 2007
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Although it may sound like an oxymoron, a University of Iowa anthropologist and his colleagues report the first discovery of a skull from a "pygmy-sized" giant panda -- the earliest-known ancestor of the giant panda -- that ...
Jun 18, 2007
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Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania are using a new technique to craft some of the tiniest metal nanostructures ever created, none larger than 10 nanometers.
Nanophysics
Jun 18, 2007
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Fujitsu today announced the development of a platform technology for 45 nanometer generation LSI logic chips, which combines technologies for low power consumption and high-performance interconnect.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jun 18, 2007
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