Kids walking to, from school are healthier
Children who walk to school have higher overall daily physical activity levels compared with those who travel by car, bus or train, a British study says.
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Nintendo to sell cell-phone-size games
Nintendo said Friday it will launch a video-game console that will be as portable as the cell phone.
Aug 19, 2005
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Nottingham research sheds new light on how chemical reactions work
Research from The University of Nottingham’s School of Chemistry has contributed to a breakthrough in the complex world of understanding how the quantum mechanics of chemical reactions work.
Aug 19, 2005
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Swedes bringing faster Internet to U.K.
Great Britain is expected to soon approve a new generation of broadband offered by a Swedish ISP that is capable of speeds of 24 Mbps.
Aug 19, 2005
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Discovery Set for Return to Kennedy Space Center
NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery ferry flight departs no earlier than Friday morning, Aug. 19, and arrives at KSC no earlier than 5:30 p.m. EDT, Saturday. Live coverage of Discovery's departure and arrival will be available ...
Aug 19, 2005
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Swift Satellite Finds Newborn Black Holes
Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite say they have found newborn black holes, just seconds old, in a confused state of existence. The holes are consuming material falling into them while somehow propelling other material ...
Aug 19, 2005
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'Fold here,' say 130,000 computers
It's already made computations equal to a single PC running continuously for more than 14,000 years. It has 83,000 human members and more than 130,000 machines. It may be among the 20 largest "computers" in the world. It's ...
Aug 19, 2005
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GE Global Research Develops ''Ideal'' Carbon Nanotube Diode
GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Company, announced the development of an ideal carbon nanotube diode that operates at the "theoretical limit," or best possible performance. ...
Aug 19, 2005
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Station Crew Wraps Up Spacewalk
Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John Phillips closed the airlock hatch of the Pirs docking compartment at 8 p.m. EDT Thursday, ending a successful spacewalk on the International Space Station. ...
Aug 19, 2005
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New Microprinting Technique Improves Nanoscale Fabrication
Scientists will announce next month a new technique called microdisplacement printing, which makes possible the highly precise placement of molecules during the fabrication of nanoscale components for electronic and sensing ...
Aug 19, 2005
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