The need for more time to repair ominous-looking cracks in metal struts that support space…
Month: January 2011
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Pirates Make Off With Mac App Store Booty
Within hours of Apple’s unveiling of the Mac App Store on Thursday, hackers announced they…
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Regional dialects are alive and well on Twitter: Slang terms like y’all, yinz, koo, coo and suttin predict location of tweet authors
Microbloggers may think they’re interacting in one big Twitterverse, but computer science researchers find that…
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Health chip gives instant diagnoses
Soon, your family doctor will no longer have to send blood or cancer cell samples…
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IVF breakthrough to hit the world market
An Australian reproductive biologist has achieved a major breakthrough in IVF technology that is expected…
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Andromeda’s once and future stars
Two European Space Agency observatories have combined forces to show the Andromeda Galaxy in a…
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High dietary fat, cholesterol linked to increased risk of breast cancer
Elevated fat and cholesterol levels found in a typical American-style diet play an important role…
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Scientists construct synthetic proteins that sustain life
In a groundbreaking achievement that could help scientists “build” new biological systems, Princeton University scientists…
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WordPress.com Blogs Garnered 23 Billion Pageviews in 2010 (Mashable)
Mashable – Automattic, the company behind popular blogging platform WordPress.com, reported 6 million new blogs…
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Sony’s Many Flavors of 3D
Last year’s CES was 3D TV’s great big debutant ball. The world was shown something…