Iraq's marshes showing fast recovery
Re-flooding of Iraq's destroyed Mesopotamian marshes has resulted in what scientists say is a remarkable rate of recovery for its plants, fish and birds.
May 30, 2006
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St. Helens again spews steam and ash
Mount St. Helens displayed a Memorial Day reminder of its might, shooting steam and an ash plume to an altitude of about 20,000 feet.
May 30, 2006
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Briefs: New invertebrate species found in Israel
Scientists at Israel's Hebrew University in Jerusalem say they have discovered a new species of invertebrate animals.
May 30, 2006
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Warming Oceans Linked to Global Rise of Cyclone Intensity
Climate researchers at Purdue University have concluded in a new study that rising sea-surface temperatures over the past 40 years are linked to a trend of more globally intense tropical cyclone activity.
Environment
May 30, 2006
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Global warming seen in Alaska's greening
A forest ecologist in Alaska is warning that the state is losing its forests to global warming and could soon turn out to be a state of grasslands.
Environment
May 30, 2006
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Mars robots to become smarter
NASA reportedly plan to upgrade its Mars rovers' programs to help them more intelligently deal with observing phenomenon on the Red Plant.
Space Exploration
May 30, 2006
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KT Powertel launched S. Korea BlackBerry
KT Powertel and RIM Tuesday launched BlackBerry service for the first time in South Korea.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 30, 2006
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Nano World: Superior nanowire transistors
Transistors made with semiconductor wires just nanometers or billionths of a meter wide can exceed the performance of current state-of-the-art silicon transistors by three or four times, experts tell UPI's Nano World.
Nanophysics
May 30, 2006
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Text chat becoming useful customer service
Though it's long been thought that customer service by means of online text chat is too expensive and inefficient to deploy, it's starting to become a useful business tool, according to new research.
Software
May 30, 2006
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Networking: Old hardware, new applications
The market for virtual servers -- software that lets computer users employ more than one operating system, whether it is Windows or Linux, on a single server -- is surging. Experts tell UPI's Networking that more than 45 ...
Software
May 30, 2006
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