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E-Mail Hoax That's Out of This World
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Last Updated: 5:41 PM 08/06/10 - A chain e-mail has been circulating that tells how during August, the planet Mars will be as large as the full moon in the sky. (Full Story) |
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Twitter Unveils Tool to Share Tweeting Locations
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Last Updated: 8:46 PM 03/11/10 - Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities. (Full Story) |
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NOAA Dispatches High-Tech Research Plane to Improve Winter Storm Forecasts
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Last Updated: 3:39 PM 01/12/10 - NOAA’s Gulfstream IV aircraft, known for investigating Atlantic hurricanes, will begin flying over the North Pacific Ocean to fill gaps in atmospheric observations, which will enhance forecasts of winter storms for the entire North American continent through improved computer modeling. (Full Story) |
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Charter Cable Rated as Worst Again by Consumer Reports
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Last Updated: 6:33 PM 01/08/10 - Television, internet, and phone services are getting new grades in the new issue of Consumer Reports - and it's not good news for Charter. (Full Story) |
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It's Now Illegal to Dump Electronics in Landfills
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Last Updated: 11:25 PM 10/23/09 - MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Jim Doyle has signed into law a bill designed to cut down on the amount of computers and other electronics dumped in landfills. (Full Story) |
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- Steve Jobs file reveals frank assessments
Late Apple co-founder and CEO at one point held a Top Secret government clearance, was targeted for extortion in 1980s - How Earth's next supercontinent will form
Amasia is (very slowly) coming this way - Zebras' stripes tell nasty flies to buzz off
To see how unappealing zebra stripes might be, researchers visited a horsefly-infested horse farm near Budapest - Obama hosts White House science fair
Student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country visited the White House - Video: Almanac: Indiana's pi bill
February 5, 1897 was the day the Indiana House of Representatives endorsed the idea of a small town doctor Edwin Johnston Goodwin who came up with a method of "squaring a circle" with the incorrect value for the mathematical constant, pi.
- Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years
NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington. - Shuttle lands at California air base
NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth, citing poor weather conditions. - iReporters watch planets, moon align
- Inspiration for 'Contact' still listening
From a remote valley in Northern California, Jill Tarter is listening to the universe. - Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise
Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft.
- iPad retains value longer than Kindle
Technology is not like wine. - Will Google 'do no evil'?
Frida Ghitis says online hoarding of our private information is not something we can afford to "dismiss."
- Nearly 1 in 20 US adults over 50 have fake knees
CHICAGO (AP) -- Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population.... - Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited.... - Researchers probe 200-year-old shipwreck off RI
WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) -- For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.... - Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.... - La Nina going away, but too late for Texas drought
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal weather forecasters say the La Nina weather phenomenon that contributed to the southwestern U.S. drought is winding down....
- Tesla Model X
Tesla took the wraps off its third all-electric model at its Los Angeles design center. The Model X is built on the same platform as the Model S, but uses an SUV-style body. - Google developing home entertainment system
The search engine giant enters the consumer electronics market - Amazing "printer" makes real things
Brooklyn-based MakerBot Industries makes personal 3D printers - Spotify gets President Obama's official 2012 campaign playlist
Obama for America releases the official campaign playlist on the popular music streaming service - Read FBI background report on Apple CEO Steve Jobs
George H. Bush considered Steve Jobs for an appointment on the President's Council and the FBI checked out the CEO's background
- iPad retains value longer than Kindle
Technology is not like wine. - Will Google 'do no evil'?
Frida Ghitis says online hoarding of our private information is not something we can afford to "dismiss."
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