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June 29, 2005
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Baby Bursts Shed Light on Biggest Blasts in the Sky - Space.com If you had X-ray vision, most of the objects in the sky – besides the Sun – would be too faint for you to see with the naked eye. But every once in a while – in some random corner of the universe – there would be a short burst of X-rays appearing almost as bright as the planet Venus is in visible light. They typically last less than a minute and apparently originate in distant galaxies—traits that also belong to gamma ray bursts (GRBs), the biggest blasts in the sky. |
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Does Life Exist On Other Planets? - SpaceDaily Recent research argues that an atmosphere rich in oxygen is the most likely source of energy for complex life to exist anywhere in the Universe, thereby limiting the number of places life may exist. Professor David Catling at Bristol University, along with colleagues at the University of Washington and NASA, contend that significant oxygen in the air and oceans is essential for the evolution of multicellular organisms, and that on Earth the time required for oxygen levels to reach a point where animals could evolve was almost four billion years. life on other planets orbiting short-lived suns may not have enough time to evolve into complex forms. |
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Airline Seat Turned Into In-Flight Office - SpaceDaily Chatting on a cell phone, surfing the Net from a laptop and watching video-on-demand will soon all become part of the standard flying experience, even in economy class, say exhibitors at the weeklong 46th Paris Air Show, which ends Sunday. Besides using their cell phones, passengers will be able use back-of-the seat screens to surf the Internet, select video and audio programming on demand, read the in-flight magazine or even a book, shop duty-free, and choose their on-board meals. One system on exhibit, Thales's TopSeries, can be installed on any type of aircraft. It is already available on a number of airlines. |
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Alzheimer's Disease: :
6/29/2005: New Computer Program Uses Brain Scans To Assess Risk Of Alzheimer's - Science
Daily
Biosciences:
6/29/2005: When It Comes To Cell Entry, Being Average Has Its Advantages - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Researchers Grow Stem Cells From Human Skin - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Ultra-fast Camera Captures How Hummingbirds Hover - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: UMass Amherst Researchers Discover That Microbes Can Produce Miniature Electrical Wires - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Master fliers of the bird kingdom -
BBC
6/29/2005: Indian agency to protect tigers -
BBC
6/29/2005: Illegal ivory on sale in Africa -
BBC
Climate, Environment:
6/29/2005: Climate-Friendly Farming Project Underway - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Residents protest dioxin pollution by jumping into river (June 24, 2005 12-17) ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: Court Upholds EPA Change of Air Pollution Policy ... - L. A. Times
6/29/2005: Pollution Deal With Railroads Criticized ... - L. A. Times
6/29/2005: Court upholds changes to pollution rules for factories ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005:
6/29/2005: Southern England warned of coming heatwave smog ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: Waste mountain 'must be tackled' -
BBC
Computers:
Devices
6/29/2005: Best DSLR
camera: One best for you - Seattle
Times
6/29/2005: Why Johnny Can't Play - Technology
Review
6/29/2005: Game Devs Plan to Save Japan - Wired News
6/29/2005: Be a Gaming God for Dollars a Day - Wired News
Communications
6/29/2005: Microsoft aims to lead smartphone market within three years - Silicon
Strategies
6/29/2005: Handsets: Let These Entertain You - Wired News
Technology
6/29/2005: Little time, big decisions for 45-nm node - Silicon
Strategies
PC's
6/29/2005: IBM, HP dominate world's fastest supercomputers - Silicon
Strategies
Internet
6/29/2005: Online Porn Dodges Major Bullet - Wired News
6/29/2005: Rethinking the File-Swap Morass - Wired News
6/29/2005: Yahoo Closes Chat Under Pressure - Wired News
6/29/2005: Beware the Google Threat - Wired News
6/29/2005: The Risks of Peer-to-Peer - Wired News
6/29/2005: Almost All Libraries Offer Free Web Access
- NY
Times
6/29/2005: New Law Targets Internet Porn - Wired News
Miscellaneous
6/29/2005: Remote control makes tech support easy - Seattle
Times
6/29/2005: From the
Lab: Information Technology - Technology
Review
6/29/2005: Keep Your Privates Private - Wired News
6/29/2005: CardSystems Installs Security Fix - Wired News
6/29/2005: CardSystems' Data Left Unsecured - Wired News
6/29/2005: Microsoft Bakes RSS into Longhorn - Wired News
Energy:
6/29/2005: Developing countries receive boost for renewable energy under new UN plan ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: Fusion centre decision 'imminent' -
BBC
Health:
Cardiovascular
6/29/2005: Blood Test Can Accurately Diagnose Heart Failure In Emergency Patients - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Study Shows Statin Use Before Or After Stroke Improves Recovery - Science
Daily
Cancer
6/29/2005: Exposure To Sunlight May Decrease Risk Of Prostate Cancer - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Researchers Improve Lung Cancer Survival Rates - Science
Daily
Infectious
6/29/2005: Scripps Research Scientists Solve Structure Of A Critical Innate Immune System Protein - Science
Daily
Non-Infectious
Miscellaneous
6/29/2005: 'Motherwell's Babies' Study May Yield Up Clues For Adult Diseases - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Potassium: The Overlooked Crop
Nutrient? - Science
Daily
History, Anthropology:
6/29/2005: Bad News, Christopher Columbus - Wired News
6/29/2005: Oops! Dinosaur Teeth Sales Are a Croc - Wired News
6/29/2005: Fossil shows poison-biting small mammal ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: Fossil discovered of 60 mn-year-old venomous mammal ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: A question of ports Are you up to our children's Trafalgar quiz challenge?
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BBC
Miscellaneous:
6/29/2005: Airline Seat Turned Into In-Flight Office - SpaceDaily
6/29/2005: Electronic Connectivity Isn't All That Great, Warns Computer Guru At NJIT Talk - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Gunning for the Puzzle Title - Wired News
6/29/2005: Driving Big Brother - Wired News
6/29/2005: Looks Like a Sure Thing, But... - Wired News
6/29/2005: Terror-Proof the Nation's Skyscrapers - Wired News
6/29/2005: Canada's Rx Chill - Washington Post
6/29/2005: Science, not soldiers, for the DRC ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: Floating homes: The people who build their own island homes on Lake Titicaca -
BBC
Neurosciences:
6/29/2005: 'Hollow-face Illusion' Affects Estimates Of Distance And Reaching Tasks - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Decreasing Death Anxiety - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Brain pacemaker lifts depression -
BBC
Physics and Astronomy:
6/29/2005:
Baby Bursts Shed Light on Biggest Blasts in the Sky - Space.com
6/29/2005: Ripples in the Sands of Time - Economist
6/29/2005: Whirling atoms dance into physics textbooks ... - FirstScience
Prolongevity
Robotics:
6/29/2005: Sims on steroids- researchers to study society of computer-based agents - Silicon
Strategies
6/29/2005: Roomba Tweak for Neat Freaks - Wired News
6/29/2005: HK Science Museum to showcase eight giant robot animals ... - FirstScience
Space:
6/29/2005: Does
Life Exist On Other Planets: - SpaceDaily
6/29/2005: Reality of Cosmos 1 Loss Sets In - Wired News
6/29/2005: Scientists look for clues on solar-sail spacecraft ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: ISRO meets on planetary exploration, space law ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: NASA Risk from ice impact on shuttle OK ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: GAO Says U.S. Air Force Has More Space Than It Can Handle ... - FirstScience
6/29/2005: Consortia combine to run Galileo -
BBC
6/29/2005: Nasa: 'Ice impact risk acceptable' -
BBC
6/29/2005: Joint Consortia Win Galileo GPS Deal - SpaceDaily
6/29/2005: ISRO And ESA Sign Chandrayaan-1 Instrument Agreement - SpaceDaily
6/29/2005: Spirit Eyes Husband Hill Summit - SpaceDaily
6/29/2005: NASA
Chief: Shuttle to Launch Despite Concerns - Space.com
6/29/2005: TV
Review: 'Seconds from Disaster: Columbia's Last Flight' - Space.com
Technology:
6/29/2005: New Material Could Improve Fabrication Of Nanoscale Components - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: A Home On The Range For Forage Research - Science
Daily
6/29/2005: Faster than ever and now with ears - Japan's new Bullet -
BBC