Today’s computers have more than 2,000 times as much memory as the machines of yesteryear, yet programmers are still writing code as if memory is in short supply. Not only does this make programs crash annoyingly, but it ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 26, 2006
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Forty years ago this month, thanks to an inventive University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist, our view of the world was changed forever.
Space Exploration
Dec 26, 2006
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After three solid months of gains, consumer confidence in Florida fell in December by four points to 89, reflecting pessimism about gas prices, the housing market and future economic conditions, University of Florida economists ...
Other
Dec 26, 2006
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The Russian Federal Space Agency said the country was the 2006 leader in space launches, accounting for 45 percent of craft sent into space this year.
Space Exploration
Dec 26, 2006
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Chinese officials say Internet users in the country are using false identity card numbers to mask their identities while accessing Web sites and games.
Internet
Dec 26, 2006
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The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced "invisibility cloak" have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak's powers, enabling it to hide even actively ...
Mathematics
Dec 26, 2006
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Western U.S. wildfires are likely to increase in the coming decades, according to a new tree-ring study led by the University of Comahue in Argentina and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that links episodic ...
Environment
Dec 26, 2006
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Archaeologists have found a 1,700-year-old tomb dating back to the Jin Dynasty at a construction site in China's Jiangxi Province.
Archaeology
Dec 26, 2006
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Despite the explosive growth in size and complexity of the human brain, the pace of evolutionary change among the thousands of genes expressed in brain tissue has actually slowed since the split, millions of years ago, between ...
Dec 26, 2006
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Scientists can predict how the distance marine larvae travel varies with ocean temperature – a key component in conservation and management of fish, shellfish and other marine species – according to a new study from the ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 26, 2006
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