Tiny plane to aid environmental studies
A Kansas State University research team has built a small, inexpensive remote-controlled plane as a sensing tool to collect environmental data.
Environment
May 9, 2006
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TiVo brings ad search to subcribers
DVR vendor/service provider TiVo launched Monday "TiVo Product Watch," offering subscribers searchable advertising and content.
Internet
May 9, 2006
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Fungi important in Arctic nitrogen cycle
U.S. biologists say a new method of calculating nitrogen transfer from mushrooms to plants is proving that fungi is important in the Arctic nitrogen cycle.
Environment
May 9, 2006
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In Brief: Archaeologists find Augustan head in Italy
A marble, bas-relief, head of the Emperor Augustus has been found at a large and well-appointed Roman villa site near Rome.
Archaeology
May 9, 2006
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Swift wireless laptop for gamers released
Two new wireless laptop computers were unveiled Tuesday that were billed as being faster than laptops that connect to fixed-line broadband.
Hardware
May 9, 2006
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Physicists Use Soap Bubbles to Study Black Holes
People use them to get cars, dishes and clothes clean. Children blow them for fun. And now, a University of Mississippi physicist thinks soap bubbles can help scientists better understand the properties of black holes.
General Physics
May 9, 2006
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The cochlea's spiral shape boosts low frequencies
The next time someone whispers in your ear, think "cochlea." The cochlea is the marvelous structure in the inner ear that is shaped like a snail shell and transforms sounds into the nerve impulses that your brain can process ...
General Physics
May 9, 2006
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Researchers begin to solve mystery of hybrid vigor
Hybrid vigor works, but no one understands how. ISU plant scientists have uncovered a key to understanding the complex molecular mechanisms of this biological process. Their findings were published in the May 2 edition of ...
May 9, 2006
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Laboratory scientists study soot in megacity pollution
A team of Los Alamos scientists recently returned from a month-long data-gathering trip to Mexico City as part of an international, multi-agency environmental science collaboration. The March campaign was designed to examine ...
Environment
May 9, 2006
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Female-Name Chat Users Get 25 Times More Malicious Messages
A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering found that chat room participants with female usernames received 25 times more threatening and/or sexually explicit private messages than those ...
Internet
May 9, 2006
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