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Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games
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eStadium application brings multimedia sports features to smartphones
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Norway court snubs call to block The Pirate Bay
6 Nov 2009, 4:09 pm
Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others
6 Nov 2009, 4:07 pm
Google's desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath
6 Nov 2009, 1:50 pm
Station Prepares For New Spacecraft, Monitors Debris
6 Nov 2009, 1:40 pm
Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease (w/ Video)
6 Nov 2009, 12:50 pm
'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies
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EBay settles lawsuit filed by Skype founders
6 Nov 2009, 12:38 pm
Think twice before you boo your competitor
6 Nov 2009, 12:12 pm
Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed
6 Nov 2009, 11:10 am
Researchers link health-care debate to risk of dying in US and Europe
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Kepler Mission Update
6 Nov 2009, 11:00 am
Pioneering Swiss solar-powered plane rolled out
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Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has discovered for the first time that dark chocolate rich in flavanols may provide significant protection from the harmful effects of ultraviolet light.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.
Bakti Vigo
Bakti Vigo
hmmmm..., it is just beginning...
Yesterday at 11:33am
Zahira Ameen
Zahira Ameen
May God give us the good of it & protect us from the bad/evil of such discoveries. Aameen.
Yesterday at 9:05pm
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Ford to put air bags into back seat belts of SUV (w/ Video)
(AP) -- Air bags have long been mounted in the steering wheel, dashboard and sides of vehicles. Now, they're in the seat belts. Ford Motor Co. plans to introduce seat belt-mounted air bags in the back seat of the 2011 Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle, which ...will hit the market next fall. Ford ...

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The Aquarius remigis water strider on the right, identified by the blue-red-white dot sequence, is a highly aggressive male who is trying to break up a mating. The low-aggression water strider with the white-yellow-blue dots is mating with the female beneath him. ...
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Artist's impression of an AM-CVn star system, where helium flows from one star, a helium white dwarf (upper right), onto another, piling up in an accretion disk around a small, dense primary star. Helium ...
Patti
Patti
Beautiful rendering!
Yesterday at 1:57pm
Brian Partlow
Brian Partlow
The rendering makes it look pleasant to live in that system. I wonder what the sunsets look like, or maybe it's the mornings that are spectacular?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.
Adrian Sculptoreanu
Adrian Sculptoreanu
We should ask Donald Trump to be generous onthis occasion!
Yesterday at 5:41am
Jason Herring
Jason Herring
Seems optimistic to me...
Yesterday at 7:38pm
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In the NFL logic device, the first SPW (kBias) is launched, followed by the launch of a second SPW (kC2), which steers the first SPW into the left drain terminal for detection, where it’s identified as a logic “1”. Image copyright: De Los Santos. ©2009 IEEE.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Californian company, SolarReserve, is developing a solar power system that can store seven hours' worth of solar energy by focusing mirrors onto millions of gallons of molten salt, allowing the plant to provide electricity 24 hours a day.
B. Charles Reynolds
B. Charles Reynolds
Old news. Already two (more?) of these operating commercially in Spain after successful test-of-concept in California about, yep, ten years ago. Still neato and still a very inefficient use of acreage.
Thu at 12:06pm
Martin Johnson
Martin Johnson
Maybe one day we can put them on top of the decommissioned off shore drilling rigs...
Thu at 10:39pm
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Study shows cell phone users miss the obvious, like a unicycling clown
How blind to their surroundings can people be when they're talking on their cell phones?

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(AP) -- A laser-powered robot failed to complete its climb up a long cable dangling from a helicopter Wednesday in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators.
Robert Scott Dotson
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pay attention, Shaq: Two North Carolina State University engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw - a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the game clock winds down.
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New evidence from Chandra suggests that the neutron star at the center of the Cas A supernova remnant has an ultra-thin carbon atmosphere. This uniform carbon atmosphere would explain the lack of X-ray ...
Christopher K Koenigsberg
Christopher K Koenigsberg
tell Catherine Asaro -- a real Diamond Star!
Wed at 8:10pm
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PhysOrg.com - Science, Research, Technology, Physics, Nanotech, Space News (PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...

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Photograph of the measurement arrangement inside an anechoic chamber for sound testing. The wire loudspeakers are held on the round 150-mm silicon wafer, which is in the middle attached to the circuit board. Image copyright: Niskanen, et al.
Kia
Kia
Hello Bryan,

Would you mind if I used part of your response as my status to query my "friends"???
Wed at 9:39am
Bryan-Carlton Flournoy
Bryan-Carlton Flournoy
most definitely...I'm honored, and thanks, Eric!
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(AP) -- Rocketing into space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go. That's the future goal of this week's $2 million Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert.
Paul J Heidt
Paul J Heidt
The space elevator is the only way I will ever make it to space. Good luck to all in the challenge.
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