Staples will begin selling Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader this year, making the US office supply chain the second brick-and-mortar store to offer the device.
Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 31, 2010
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University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites from campus, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in ...
Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- RT @UCRiverside: #Computerscience and #art student create tool to track Twitter's top trending topics over time.
Computer Sciences
Aug 31, 2010
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Two new groundbreaking scientific papers by researchers at UC Santa Barbara demonstrate the synthesis of nanosize biological particles with the potential to fight cancer and other illnesses. The studies introduce new approaches ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 31, 2010
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In December 2010, IceCube -- the world's first kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, which is located beneath the Antarctic ice -- will finally be completed after two decades of planning. In an article in the AIP's Review ...
General Physics
Aug 31, 2010
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A new imaging system using six different wavelengths to illuminate the interior of the eyeball (ocular fundus) may pave the way for doctors to easily screen patients for common diseases of the eye, such as age-related macular ...
General Physics
Aug 31, 2010
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With no clear signs the nation is either on the road to economic recovery or showing signs of entering another recession, Florida’s consumer confidence remained stagnant, inching up only one point to 67 in August, according ...
Economics & Business
Aug 31, 2010
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Fogged or frozen windows are the bane of drivers' lives in winter. German researchers have developed a process that allows them to manufacture not just transparent, but heatable films. These films also prevent condensation, ...
Materials Science
Aug 31, 2010
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The puzzle of why some oily whale bones make great habitats for weird and wonderful deep sea creatures has been solved by Natural History Museum scientists this month.
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight. The ...
Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2010
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