Observatory: Figuring Out How Toads Endure All That Hopping
| The animal’s forelimb muscle somehow knows to activate about 90 milliseconds before landing, researchers discovered. 02/09/2010 03:00 (nytimes tech-science) Continue to read news >> |
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Driven To Distraction: Distracted Drivin... Lawmakers are trying to get drivers to stop texting and talking on the phone, but police officers and paramedics are required to use an array of dashboard gadgets. |
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Mummy Of Monotheist Pharaoh Heading Home The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries - the fate of controversial Pharaoh A |
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Advertising: Like Texting, But With Vide... Companies like American Greetings are moving beyond texting by offering services that send video messages to cellphones. |
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Einstein's Theory Of Relativity On Displ... For the first time, the complete, original manuscript of the theory of relativity, profoundly human and surprisingly moving to examine, has been put on display in Jerusal |
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Why The Chile Earthquake Aftershock Was ... The whopping 7.2-magnitude aftershock that rattled Chile again today is nothing unusual following such a large original earthquake, scientists say. |
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Dogs That Detect Bedbugs Bedbug-sniffing dogs are the new and furry front line in an escalating domestic war. |
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Abdulmutallab Could Not Have Blown Up Pl... Even if the "Underwear Bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had exploded his device on Christmas day, 2009, the Airbus A330 would have survived, according to an experiment c |
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Google Chief Sees Outcome "soon" In Chin... Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday. |
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Einstein Was Right: General Relativity C... Score one more for Einstein. A new study has confirmed his theory of general relativity works on extremely large scales. |
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Palm Teeters In Crowded Smart Phone Mark... Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone c |
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Doomsday Seed Vault Hits 1/2 Million Mar... Two years after receiving its first deposits, a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repo |
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Disease Cause Is Pinpointed With Genome It now appears possible to sequence a patient’s genome at reasonable cost and with sufficient accuracy to be useful. |
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Warning: Ancient Sex On Show In Paris The latest show at Paris' Quai Branly museum comes with a warning for visitors: "This exhibition of Moche ceramics shows sexual acts of an explicit nature." |
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