Briefs: U.K. to extend mobile termination limits
British regulators Thursday proposed extending controls on termination charges for wholesale wireless phone calls after their scheduled expiration in 2007.
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Rare whales die beached in South Florida
Three rare, deep-dwelling whales that became beached Wednesday on Florida's South Hutchinson Island reportedly have been euthanized.
Mar 30, 2006
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Russian 'Jurassic park' under development
Thirty Canadian bison are being donated to Russia for Pleistocene Park, an ice age reserve under development that will feature the area's extinct species.
Mar 30, 2006
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Google's latest stock sale raises concerns
For those invested in Google, the last few weeks have been a heart-thumping ride indeed, and what's more, the roller coaster might well keep on going with its highs and lows.
Mar 30, 2006
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Virtual swimmer to speed up athletes
CSIRO and the Australian Institute of Sport are using mathematics in a bid to speed up our top swimmers by testing changes to swimming strokes. The research will make use of the same software CSIRO uses for other fluid simulations ...
Mar 30, 2006
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MINOS experiment sheds light on mystery of neutrino disappearance
An international collaboration of scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today the first results of a new neutrino experiment. Sending a high-intensity beam of muon neutrinos ...
Mar 30, 2006
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Warbots to Replace Human Soldiers?
Any good student of military history can tell you that technological change can make a huge difference on the battlefield. History is replete with examples: the English longbow at Crecy overmatched the Genovese crossbowmen. ...
Mar 30, 2006
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Sandia-designed supercomputer ranked world's most efficient in two of six categories
A new series of measurements -- the next step in evolution of criteria to determine more accurately the efficiency of supercomputers -- has rated Sandia National Laboratories' Red Storm computer the best in the world in ...
Mar 30, 2006
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Briefs: Comptel challenges FCC ruling on Verizon
The telecom industry group Comptel is challenging a recent FCC ruling that stripped a wide range of regulations from Verizon's high-capacity data services.
Mar 30, 2006
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Briefs: No conclusion in whale stranding study
The National Marine Fisheries Service says it cannot determine if Navy sonar caused 36 whales to become stranded on the North Carolina shore last year.
Mar 30, 2006
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