02/06/2010

Nintendo slashes price of its DS consoles in Japan

Nintendo on Wednesday said it would slash the price of its portable DS game consoles by 20 percent in Japan for the first time in order to revive flagging demand for its products.

Like the writer, Agatha was a brief mystery

Tropical Storm Agatha made landfall this weekend in El Salvador and Guatemala, and crossed into the western Caribbean. Like Agatha Christie, the famous mystery writer, Agatha was somewhat of a forecasting mystery until today.

Going underground to monitor carbon dioxide

A technique originally, applied to monitor the flow of contaminants into shallow groundwater supplies, has been repurposed to monitor carbon dioxide pumped deep underground for storage.

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