04/11/2010

Storms in Fla. delay space shuttle launch again

(AP) -- Storms prevented Discovery from blasting off on its final journey Thursday, the latest in a series of postponements for NASA's oldest and most traveled space shuttle.

Ancient shrimp monster not so fierce after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cambrian sea creature, Anomalocaris Canadensis, had long been thought to be a fearsome predator of trilobites, equipped as it was with barbed feelers and an armor-plated mouth, but new research suggests ...

Fluorographene: The world's thinnest insulator

(PhysOrg.com) -- The remarkable properties of graphene and Teflon have been combined in a new material by the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics.

Samsung aims to sell 1 mln Galaxy Tabs by year's end

South Korea's Samsung Electronics launched its tablet computer in the domestic market and said it aims to sell more than a million of the Galaxy Tabs worldwide by the end of this year.

PayPal patches hacker hole in iPhone application: report

PayPal has rushed out a patch for a flaw in its iPhone application that could let hackers access accounts at the online financial transactions service, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Facebook shrinks Web page fonts

Facebook set some users to squinting by shrinking text size on pages of the world's most popular online social networking service.

Obama drops plan to limit global warming gases

(AP) -- Environmental groups and industry seem headed for another battle over regulation of greenhouse gases, as President Barack Obama said he will look for ways to control global warming pollution other than Congress placing ...

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