Sea Launch conducts satellite launch for Intelsat
(AP) — A rocket carrying an Intelsat satellite has successfully lifted off from the oceangoing Sea Launch platform on the equator.
Space Exploration
Aug 19, 2012
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New world record set at mobile-phone throwing contest
A Finnish teenager has smashed the world record -- and probably his phone -- in this year's annual mobile-phone throwing contest in Finland.
Other
Aug 19, 2012
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Like NASA rover, family switches over to Mars time
(AP) — For one family, an exotic summer getaway means living on Mars.
Space Exploration
Aug 19, 2012
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Massachusetts butterflies move north as climate warms (w/ Video)
The authors of a Harvard study published today in Nature Climate Change gathered their data from an unlikely source—the trip accounts of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club. Over the past 19 years, the amateur naturalist ...
Ecology
Aug 19, 2012
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Inspired by genetics, chemistry finally takes hold of its own code
Nature proves every day that it is both complex and efficient. Organic chemists are envious of it; their conventional tools confine them to simpler achievements. Thanks to the work of professor Stefan Matile's team from the ...
Materials Science
Aug 19, 2012
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Improving water quality can help save coral reefs (w/ Video)
Research from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has found that an imbalance of nutrients in reef waters can increase the bleaching susceptibility of reef corals.
Environment
Aug 19, 2012
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Physicists demonstrate that 15=3x5 about half of the time
Computing prime factors may sound like an elementary math problem, but try it with a large number, say one that contains more than 600 digits, and the task becomes enormously challenging and impossibly time-consuming. Now, ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 19, 2012
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Artificial intelligence helps detect subtle differences in mutant worms
Research into the genetic factors behind certain disease mechanisms, illness progression and response to new drugs is frequently carried out using tiny multi-cellular animals such as nematodes, fruit flies or zebra fish.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 19, 2012
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A new route to dissipationless electronics
A team of researchers at RIKEN and the University of Tokyo has demonstrated a new material that promises to eliminate loss in electrical power transmission. The surprise is that their methodology for solving this classic ...
General Physics
Aug 19, 2012
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Typhoon-like data wiper is latest computer virus headache
(Phys.org) -- A new computer virus is leaving security experts asking what could be the motive and where is the source—but one suspicion is that it is targeting infrastructure in the energy industry. The culprit, called ...
