FDA begins major hiring initiative
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is starting a major hiring initiative designed to fill more than 1,300 public health positions.
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Apr 30, 2008
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Microsoft device helping solve crimes
Microsoft said thousands of U.S. and international police officers are using a special USB thumb drive to gather digital evidence.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 30, 2008
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Samsung Introduces P960 Mobile TV Slider Phone
Samsung Electronics announced today P960, the world’s first slider type Digital Video Broadcast - Handheld (DVB-H) mobile TV phone P960.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 30, 2008
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Scientists discover new ocean current
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are important in ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2008
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Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy
By an enormous burst of gravitational waves that accompanies the merger of two black holes the newly formed black hole was ejected from its galaxy. This extreme ejection event, which had been predicted by theorists, has now ...
General Physics
Apr 30, 2008
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Zebrafish may help solve ringing in vets' ears
Ernest Moore, an audiologist and cell biologist at Northwestern University, developed tinnitus -- a chronic ringing and whooshing sound in his ears -- twenty years ago after serving in the U.S. Army reserves medical corps. ...
Apr 30, 2008
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Scientists find rings of Jupiter are shaped in shadow
Scientists from the University of Maryland and the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of anomalies in Jupiter's gossamer rings.
Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2008
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Rocks under the northern ocean are found to resemble ones far south
Scientists probing volcanic rocks from deep under the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean have discovered a special geochemical signature until now found only in the southern hemisphere. The rocks were dredged from the remote ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2008
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Researchers explain how birds navigate
It has long been known that birds and many other animals including turtles, salamanders and lobsters, use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, but the nature of their global positioning systems (GPS) has not been completely ...
Apr 30, 2008
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GIOVE-B spacecraft in good health
A second test satellite for Galileo, Europe's rival to the US Global Positioning System, is "in good health" despite a hiccup that emerged after it was placed in orbit last Sunday, the European Space Agency said on Wednesday.
Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2008
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