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2 hours 44 min ago
Google releases a mobile version of its Chrome browser.


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Global Warming: 'Weather on Steroids'

4 hours 29 min ago
What impact is climate change having on our weather? To help answer, a group of researchers has just released a new online guide for understanding the links between more extreme weather and a warming planet. They call the effect 'weather on steroids.'


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Spider-Man? 'Cobwebs' in Nuclear Waste

Tue, 2012-02-07 16:08
At the Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina, where, among other things, spent fuel rods from nuclear power reactors are stored, workers last fall reported a white substance, similar to cobwebs left by spiders, in one of the pools of of water where the...


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Watch: Deleted Facebook Photos Stay in Cache

Tue, 2012-02-07 13:11
Backup copies remain on CDN servers and can be seen with a direct link.


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Antarctic Mystery: Drilling Lake Vostok

Tue, 2012-02-07 13:06
Two and a half miles beneath Antarctica‘s ice lies Lake Vostok, a mysterious body of water 160 miles long and 30 miles wide that is believed to have been sealed off from the rest of the world for 20 million years. Now, the Russians, who...


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Tue, 2012-02-07 07:46
Amazon may open a store in Seattle as a prelude to becoming a chain.


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Family Billed $11K for Streaming Movies

Tue, 2012-02-07 07:35
When the Gibsons of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, in Canada, returned home from a family vacation in Arizona, they found a $10,600 bill from their Internet provider – all because they had let their children stream movies on Netflix without realizing there would be roaming charges. “The kids were getting...


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'Atlantis' Eliminated in Google Earth

Tue, 2012-02-07 07:15
Scientists say grid on Atlantic floor caused by ship sweeping back and forth.


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Photos: The Ancient Oceans of Mars

Mon, 2012-02-06 16:52
A star nursery, the aurora as seen from the International Space Station in orbit, a storm on Saturn as big as Earth, a spectacular solar flare, and images of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope.


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Bears at Play, Key for Survival

Sun, 2012-02-05 08:05
Hungry wild polar bear prefers playing with a chained sled dog to eating it. It sounds like a paradox. How could play — defined as “apparently purposeless activity that’s fun to do and pleasurable” — be vital for grim survival in such an often random...


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Bears at Play, Key for Survival

Sun, 2012-02-05 08:05
Hungry wild polar bear prefers playing with a chained sled dog to eating it. It sounds like a paradox. How could play — defined as “apparently purposeless activity that’s fun to do and pleasurable” — be vital for grim survival in such an often random...


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Facebook's Success: Real Names Only

Sun, 2012-02-05 07:52
Facebook, which filed for an IPO this week, says it has been a success largely because it requires people to use their real names online and thus be more civil to each other. No anonymous flaming allowed. Can it last?


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Water World: New 'Super-Earth' Found

Fri, 2012-02-03 18:51
Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.


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Micron CEO Killed in Plane Crash

Fri, 2012-02-03 18:12
Steve Appleton, the CEO of the semoconductor maker Micron Technology, Inc., was killed in a small plane crash at the airport in Boise, Idaho today. He was 51.


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Madelyn Wins Out in Facebook Poll to Name Baby

Fri, 2012-02-03 17:16
What’s in a name? A lot, according to the more-than-4,200 people who took the time to vote in Facebook poll to determine what Dave and Lindsey Meske of Crystal Lake, Ill., should name their newborn baby daughter. The Meskes set up the poll, which drew...


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Madelyn Wins Out in Facebook Poll to Name Baby

Fri, 2012-02-03 17:16
What’s in a name? A lot, according to the more-than-4,200 people who took the time to vote in Facebook poll to determine what Dave and Lindsey Meske of Crystal Lake, Ill., should name their newborn baby daughter. The Meskes set up the poll, which drew...


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Watch: Distant Planet Could Be Right for Water

Fri, 2012-02-03 17:00
Scientists spot planet in the "habitable zone" around its star.


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Meet the New Facebook Millionaires

Fri, 2012-02-03 15:12
Facebook, in one of the world's most widely anticipated IPOs, or initial public offerings of stock, filed papers to raise at least $5 billion and begin to sell stock this spring.


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Photos: A Rabbit Gets Acupuncture

Fri, 2012-02-03 13:24
A two-faced cat, an elephant who need an eye doctor, a Malayian sun bear with a ten-inch tongue, and other strange cases from the animal kingdom.


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