Baidu decision a win for IPR
Intellectual-property rights scored a small victory Wednesday when state media reported Baidu.com, a Chinese search engine, agreed to remove links to sites selling pirated music.
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Emerging markets pushing cell-phone growth
Cell phones no longer are rare status symbols in developing countries. In fact, mobile-handset manufacturers worldwide should be looking to emerging markets for the bulk of their sales in the near future, an industry analysis ...
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How long does it take an electron to travel from an atom to the next atom?
Scientists say they have discovered how long it takes electrons to hop between atoms: about 320 quintillionths of a second. The journal Nature publishes this week a study of electronic dynamics ("Direct observation of electron ...
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Sighting of rare woodpecker is questioned
Three biologists are questioning a claim by a bird expert of seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker -- a bird believed extinct in the United States.
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Zero Gravity Corporation Successfully Inaugurates ZERO-G Learning Lab
This past weekend, fifteen very lucky Florida science teachers experienced the thrill that only a few hundred astronauts have had -- flying in zero-gravity. The selected teachers were participants on the inaugural flight ...
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Space Tourism: The Road Ahead
When will space flight trips into Earth orbit be as safe and routine as flights on commercial planes today? Michel Van Pelt's 'Space Tourism' looks at the technological challenges that still need to be overcome. Principally ...
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Chief Calls On Congress To Fund Stealth Destroyer DD(X)
Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee's Projection Forces Subcommittee July 19, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Vern Clark strongly urged Congress to fully fund the Navy's next generation destroyer, DD(X). ...
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ORNL mirrors powerful tools for studying micro-, nano-materials
Precision mirrors to focus X-rays and neutron beams could speed the path to new materials and perhaps help explain why computers, cell phones and satellites go on the blink.
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NASA Announces Deep Impact Future Mission Status
As NASA's Deep Impact flyby spacecraft prepares to execute its sixth trajectory correction maneuver, program managers at agency headquarters in Washington are investigating future options.
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Scientists hear the earth ripping apart
Scientists are using nuclear test monitoring microphones to analyze sounds caused by December's massive Indian Ocean earthquake and resulting tsunami.
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