 | Scientists find most Earth-like planet yet (News)
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European astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our solar system, and here's what it might be like to live there:
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 | Scientists simulate jet colliding with World Trade Center (Video)
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Researchers at Purdue University have created a simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what likely happened when a commercial airlin..
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| T. rex thigh reveals chicken family ties (News)
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Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.
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| Study: More kids exposed to online porn (News)
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More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say.
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| Scientists find most Earth-like planet yet (News)
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European astronomers have spotted what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet outside our solar system, with balmy temperatures that could support water and, potentially, life.
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| Sex takes 3 to 13 minutes, study says (News)
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Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed.
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| Diet, exercise take off equal pounds, study finds (News)
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Eating less and exercising more are equally good at helping take off the pounds, U.S. researchers said Friday in a study that challenges many of the popular tenets of the multibillion dollar diet and ..
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| Free computer virus finds willing victims (News)
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Computer specialist Didier Stevens put up a simple text advertisement on the Internet offering downloads of a computer virus for people who did not have any.
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| Bush vetoes bill aimed at promoting stem cell research (News)
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Vetoing a stem cell bill for the second time, President Bush on Wednesday sought to placate those who disagree with him by signing an executive order urging scientists toward what he termed "ethi..
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| Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president (News)
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A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
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| Senate passes stem-cell funding bill (News)
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The Senate approved a measure that would roll back President Bush's 2001 limits on embryonic stem-cell research Wednesday afternoon, but the margin was short of the two-thirds needed to override a pro..
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| Study: Seniors having more sex than you think (News)
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Many older Americans routinely engage in vaginal intercourse, oral sex and masturbation, a landmark study into a long-taboo subject reported Wednesday.
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| Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says (News)
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Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests.
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| Dinosaur may have resembled biplane (News)
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When the Wright Brothers first took to the sky in a biplane, they were using a design nature may have tried 125 million years earlier.
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 | Multi-Touch Interaction Research (Video)
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Multi-Touch Interaction Research,Jeff Han (2006)
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one fin..
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| Huge global child porn ring found (News)
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Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who ..
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| Get the diet scoop: 6 promising supplements, 6 to avoid (News)
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The sales pitches are irresistible: "Lose 2 Pounds a Day!" "Burn Fat Round the Clock!" "Learn the Amazing Weight-Loss Secret of Hollywood's Sex Symbols!" OK, maybe that's..
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 | Graffiti Research Lab L.A.S.E.R Tag (Video)
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Awesome video from the boys at graffiti research labs. Projecting graffiti with a laser pointer on the side of a building... CRAZY
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| 'Age management' is a controversial new medical focus (News)
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Clothia Roussell draws inspiration from the prophets. "I've read in the Bible how we're supposed to live to see 120, and those prophets lived to be 400 or 500 years old," said the 49-year-ol..
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| Bush vetoes war-funding bill with withdrawal timetable (News)
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Four years to the day after standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier and declaring "major combat operations" in Iraq were over, President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a war-spending bill that c..
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| Mysterious honeybee killer could make dinner bland (News)
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Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of America's honeybees could have a devastating effect on the country's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing its..
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| Convicted killer fears his last moments (News)
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Philip Workman has prepared to die three times before.
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| Study: iPods can make pacemakers malfunction (News)
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iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart, according to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school studen..
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| Study: iPods can make pacemakers malfunction (News)
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iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart, according to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school studen..
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| Study: Southern Ocean saturated with CO2 (News)
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The Southern Ocean around Antarctica is so loaded with carbon dioxide that it can barely absorb any more, so more of the gas will stay in the atmosphere to warm up the planet, scientists reported Thur..
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