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Palin Is a Global-Warming-Denying, Polar-Bear-Dissing, Pat Buchanan Acolyte
AlterNet | Environment | News 30 08 2008 Definitely not a VP choice for anyone wanting to win environmental voters.
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Final LHC Synchronization Test a Success
The Future of Things | Magazine 30 08 2008 | CERN has today announced the success of the second and final test of the Large Hadron Collider's beam synchronization systems which will allow the LHC operations team to inject the first beam into the LHC. Friday evening 22 August, a single bunch of a few particles travelled down the transfer line from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator to the LHC. After a period of optimization, one bunch was kicked up from the transfer line into the LHC beam pipe and steered counter-clockwise. |
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CineBox Home Backyard Theater System
The Future of Things | Magazine 30 08 2008   | The Los Angeles based company Open Air Cinema has recently showcased its CineBox Home Theater system, which offers the experience of home theater outdoors - in one's garden or backyard. The display is projected on an inflatable screen, providing a huge 123-inch diagonal movie experience. The whole set also includes outdoor speakers and an audio mixer that is compatible with most MP3 and DVD players. |
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Nokia Brings $895 N96 Smartphone to America
The Future of Things | Magazine 30 08 2008 | Nokia announced today that it is bringing its N96 Smartphone to North America with support for 3G HSDPA networks. According to Nokia, the phone will be available here in Q4 2008. The N96 will feature a 2.8-inch screen and 16GB of internal storage space. The N96 has been available in Europe for a while and the American version of the phone will have most of the same features. Features will include a kickstand that holds the phone upright in landscape mode for watching movies. |
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The Future of Things | Magazine 30 08 2008
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NASA Studies Shuttle Program Extension, Fall Launch Delay
LiveScience | Science, Technology, Health & Environmental News 30 08 2008 NASA is studying how it might keep shuttles flying beyond 2010.
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Researcher Walks Among Dying Baby Chimps
LiveScience | Science, Technology, Health & Environmental News 30 08 2008 I study chimpanzee health. I want to determine how and why they are getting sick and dying.
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Could a Category 6 Hurricane Strike?
LiveScience | Science, Technology, Health & Environmental News 30 08 2008 The Saffir-Simpson hurricane only goes up to Category 5. But in theory, winds from a powerful hurricane could blow the scale out of the water, scientists say.
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Accept GM, urges senior African Union official
SciDev | Latest news 29 08 2008 A senior African Union official has urged African leaders to allow commercial growing of GM crops.
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An eye on history
The Scientist | Life sciences | News 29 08 2008 A new book explores the science of sight - past and present
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On science: McCain v. the GOP
The Scientist | Life sciences | News 29 08 2008 Priorities differ between the Republican party and its candidate for President
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Making sense of floral scents
The Scientist | Life sciences | News 29 08 2008 A new study suggests that flowers are more clever than previously suspected
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Drug making in the 21st century
The Scientist | Life sciences | News 29 08 2008 Pharma carving a place in cyberspace
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The first great ape to go extinct?
CABI | Hand picked... and carefully sorted | Web log 29 08 2008 A worrying thought indeed that any of our great apes should be facing extinction yet a paper recently published in Oryx reveals the latest figures for orang-utans in the wild ...and it doesn't make for comfortable reading.
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Nano-Sized 'Trojan Horse' to Aid Nutrition
The Future of Things | Magazine 29 08 2008 | Researchers from Monash University have designed a nano-sized 'trojan horse' particle to ensure healing antioxidants can be better absorbed by the human body. Dr Ken Ng and Dr Ian Larson from the University's Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have designed a nanoparticle, one thousandth the thickness of a human hair, that protects antioxidants from being destroyed in the gut and ensures a better chance of them being absorbed in the digestive tract. |
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Double First for Large Hadron Collider
The Future of Things | Magazine 29 08 2008 | Champagne corks popped at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this weekend after one of the facility's four giant particle detectors tasted its first authentic data. Crammed into a stuffy control room on the afternoon of Friday 22 August, physicists tracked the debris produced by protons that had struck a block of concrete during a test of the 3 billion Euro collider's beam-injection system. |
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Ice spy
Science News | Online edition 29 08 2008 A new way for satellites to spot small bergs
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Science & the Public: Kids Deserve Their Own Science News
Science News | Online edition 29 08 2008 Where to find cool and informative middle-school-appropriate news on science: Here.
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A difficult breakup
Science News | Online edition 29 08 2008 Separating fluorine from carbon could neutralize super-greenhouse gases
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A-beta on the brain
Science News | Online edition 29 08 2008 The protein increases with brain activity as patients recover from brain injury
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Past gasps
Science News | Online edition 29 08 2008 Ancient atmosphere not as oxygen-poor as once thought
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Pollinator manipulators
Science News | Online edition 29 08 2008 Plant laces nectar with poison to better control visitors
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Eye protection
Science News | Online edition 29 08 2008 A gene variant may guard against a blinding eye disease that strikes the elderly
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Clashing clusters
Science News | Online edition 29 08 2008 Two galaxy clusters collide to give astronomers a clue about dark matter
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Alarming sex appeal
Science News | Online edition 29 08 2008 Roosters that call out in alarm prove popular with the hens
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