Florida’s besieged wetlands offered a lease of life
Month: June 2008
Mars’ two-faced riddle ‘solved’
Scientists think a giant asteroid impact can explain why the northern and southern hemispheres of…
New Group Calls for Broadband in Every Pot
An election looms, and the candidates’ talking points are being set: war, the economy, the…
Study: RFID Tags May Scramble Hospital Equipment
A new study is raising questions over how radio frequency identification chips could be interacting…
Charter Scraps User-Tracking Plan After Privacy Outcry
Cable and high-speed ISP Charter Communications will not move forward with plans to test a…
Are Old Macs in for a Snow Leopard White-Out?
Apple’s Leopard operating system isn’t even a year old, but its offspring, Snow Leopard, is…
Fossil fills out water-land leap
Scientists identify a 365-million-year-old fossil that helps explain the sequence of events that took early…
Homegrown Software Guides Searchers to Lost Autistic Man
Computer software written by St. Louis County, Minn., Sheriff’s Rescue Squad Lt. Rick Slatten was…
Burma blocks emergency telecoms
Two teams of emergency telecoms workers leave cyclone-hit Burma after their efforts are blocked.
Register clears out ‘fishy’ names
A World Register of Marine Species roots out the fish and other ocean organisms that…