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June 3, 2004
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Star Birth Gone Wild in 'Cosmic Hurricane' - Space.com A shower of hot gas spewed from a galaxy loaded with pockets of intense star formation offers a window to the more violent early universe. The rapid-fire star birth in M82 was triggered by a collision with another galaxy, and the tremendous activity fuels a "cosmic hurricane is travelling at more than a million miles an hour [447 kilometers per second] into intergalactic space," said Linda Smith of the University College London. |
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Climate: Why Can't We Get Along? - SpaceDaily Despite the highly charged emotions from the political extremes, there is a consensus over what science is firm in the climate debate. In fact, there is surprisingly strong agreement about the scientific basis for a warming planet. There are certain facts upon which almost every scientist involved in the issue agrees. Or, perhaps it is better to say that are research results on which nearly everyone concurs. So it might surprise some of those same skeptics Christy readily agrees with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusion that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased from about 280 parts per million for most of the 20th century to about 368 parts per million in 2000. |
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Giant UK telescope gets upgrade - BBC Work has started to use optical fibres to link up the giant radio telescope at Jodrell Bank with five others that are scattered across England. The telescopes comprise an array called Merlin that combines the data from each so they perform as a larger telescope. The telescopes are currently linked by microwaves but replacing them with optical fibres will be a revolution. Astronomers say the new project, e-Merlin, will be a great leap in Jodrell Bank's ability to look out into space. The system will become operational in 2007 when Jodrell Bank will find itself at the centre of an unprecedented barrage of astronomical data. |
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Biosciences:
6/3/2004: Frog Hunt -
ABC
6/3/2004: Slideshow -
ABC
6/3/2004: Scientists Try to Help Blue Butterflies -
ABC
6/3/2004: American Chestnut May Be Poised for Return -
ABC
6/3/2004: Chimp chromosome creates puzzles - Nature
6/3/2004: Tiny bugs retrieved from glacial deep freeze - New
Scientist
6/3/2004: Microbes From 120,000-year-old Ice Sample Show Life's Tenacity - Science
Daily
6/3/2004: Unexpected Similarities Between Raindrops And Proteins - Science
Daily
6/3/2004: Developing Tools For Reliable 'Gene Chip' Measurements - Science
Daily
6/3/2004: 'Noisy' Genes Can Have Big Impact - Science
Daily
6/3/2004: Tiny Microbes In Greenland Glacier May Define Limits For Life On Earth - SpaceDaily
Climate, Environment:
6/3/2004: Climate: Why Can't We Get
Along? - SpaceDaily
6/3/2004: 'Slips' Complicate Science of Earthquakes -
ABC
6/3/2004: Earth Brightens After Years of Dimming -
ABC
6/3/2004: Group Uses Film to Promote Global Warming -
ABC
6/3/2004: Waning Earthshine on Moon Signals Pollution - Study -
ABC
6/3/2004: Britain's Beaches Scrub Up Well in Survey -
ABC
6/3/2004: Looming Atlantic Hurricane Season Seen as Busy -
ABC
6/3/2004: ANALYSIS-Hollywood, Russia Spur Climate Cost Feuding -
ABC
6/3/2004: Norway seeks tripled whale catch -
BBC
6/3/2004: Science and fiction of 'Day After Tomorrow' - MSNBC
6/3/2004: Earthshine may shed light on climate - MSNBC
6/3/2004: ‘Silent slips’ complicate quake patterns - MSNBC
6/3/2004: 'Earthshine' fall heats global warming debate - New
Scientist
6/3/2004: Can We Restore Wetlands And Leave The Mosquitoes
Out? - Science
Daily
6/3/2004: UN hails Russian pledge to accelerate efforts to ratify Kyoto protocol - SpaceDaily
6/3/2004: Scientists Look At Moon To Shed Light On Earth's Climate - SpaceDaily
6/3/2004: Eco Science For A Crowded Planet - SpaceDaily
6/3/2004: There Will Be A Day After Tomorrow - SpaceDaily
Computers:
Devices
6/3/2004: Sing like a
star: PlayStation 2 game rates your potential as a superstar -
BBC
Communications
6/3/2004: Cingular lags in high-speed wireless - C/Net
6/3/2004: California adopts 'bill of rights' for cellphone customers - Seattle
Times
Technology
6/3/2004: The unsung hard drive - C/Net
6/3/2004: Thirty years with computers - C/Net
PC's
6/3/2004: Evolution on the Galapagos inspires computer scientists -
BBC
6/3/2004: Dell and Hewlett-Packard go head-to-head in printer market - SpaceDaily
Internet
6/3/2004: Joint Strike Force -
ABC
6/3/2004: Google faces Gmail advert limits -
BBC
6/3/2004: California Senate approves anti-Gmail bill - C/Net
6/3/2004: First known 64-bit virus threat found - C/Net
6/3/2004: Microsoft eyes master search tool - Wired News
6/3/2004: Businesses sue Google for linking to rivals' ads - Seattle
Times
6/3/2004: Search Engine Wars Flare Online - SpaceDaily
Miscellaneous
Energy:
Health:
Cardiovascular
Cancer
6/3/2004: Some Men With Low PSAs Still Have Prostate Cancer - Science
Daily
Infectious
6/3/2004: Scratchy Throat or
Strep? -
ABC
6/3/2004: First US case of West Nile Virus in 2004 - New
Scientist
6/3/2004: Friendly Bacteria Block HIV Infection - Science
Daily
Non-Infectious
6/3/2004: U.N.- Smoking Kills People Seconds Apart -
ABC
6/3/2004: List of Diseases Linked to Smoking Expands -
ABC
6/3/2004: Tobacco industry's eight million secrets are out - New
Scientist
6/3/2004: Eating Some Types Of Fish During Pregnancy May Protect Baby From Future Asthma - Science
Daily
6/3/2004: Small Trial Shows Daclizumab Add-on Therapy Improves Multiple Sclerosis Outcome - Science
Daily
6/3/2004: Yerkes Researchers Discover Combination Of Drug Therapies Reduces Cocaine Use In Primates - Science
Daily
Miscellaneous
6/3/2004: Panel: Count Footsteps and Calories -
ABC
6/3/2004: Study: Texas Kids Among Fattest in U.S. -
ABC
6/3/2004: Northeast Warned on Fish Consumption -
ABC
6/3/2004: CDC: Alternative Medicine More Popular -
ABC
6/3/2004: Low-cost texts to tempt deaf users -
BBC
6/3/2004: 'Choose your ready-meal carefully' -
BBC
6/3/2004: Soya foods 'cut womb cancer risk' -
BBC
6/3/2004: Experts say they can predict obesity after feeding mice burgers -
BBC
6/3/2004: Healthy
eating: Find out whether you're choosing the right foods -
BBC
6/3/2004: Minister slams obesity 'hysteria' -
BBC
6/3/2004: Work 'stops men from exercising' -
BBC
6/3/2004: Company discontinues trial of hemophilia gene therapy
- NY
Times
6/3/2004: Researchers To Study Fate Of Prions In Wastewater - Science
Daily
6/3/2004: Study May Improve Survival Of Transplanted Livers - Science
Daily
History, Anthropology:
6/3/2004: Cosmic
Log: Take a Titanic trip - MSNBC
Miscellaneous:
6/3/2004: Software to Back Up Movies DVDs -
ABC
6/3/2004: Lisbon to try sustainable living -
BBC
6/3/2004: Universal
truth: A machine that can read your mind - or just junk science? -
BBC
6/3/2004: Boffins
unite! Why it's time to celebrate the work of backroom scientists -
BBC
6/3/2004: Tobacco giant accused over files -
BBC
6/3/2004: Digital home redux - C/Net
6/3/2004: Statistical flaws revealed in top journals' papers - New
Scientist
6/3/2004: Dumpy, Waxy, Poisonous and Jumpy, Frogs Invade a Museum
- NY
Times
6/3/2004: Microsoft campus going up in heart of high-tech India - Seattle
Times
6/3/2004: Greenspan frequent visitor to White House these days - Seattle
Times
6/3/2004: 'Love patent' guarantees to take guesswork out of matchmaking - Seattle
Times
6/3/2004: Intel planning Indian manufacturing, say reports - Silicon
Strategies
Neurosciences:
6/3/2004: Remembrance Of Smells
Past: How The Brain Stores Those Meaningful Memories - Science
Daily
Physics and Astronomy:
6/3/2004: Star Birth Gone Wild in 'Cosmic Hurricane' - Space.com
6/3/2004: Giant UK telescope gets upgrade
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BBC
6/3/2004: NASA Discovers Likely Youngest Planet -
ABC
6/3/2004: Astronomers size up the Universe
6/3/2004: Universe to expand for ever
6/3/2004: Telescope spies 'youngest' planet
6/3/2004: The
Heaviest Binary System Ever Measured (PDF) - Nature
6/3/2004: 'Youngest planet' flouts theory of formation - New
Scientist
6/3/2004: Physicists tackle EU constitution - PhysicsWeb
6/3/2004: Raw Ingredients For Life Detected In Planetary Construction Zones - Science
Daily
6/3/2004: Raw Ingredients For Life Detected In ExoPlanet Disc - SpaceDaily
6/3/2004: Milky Way Churning Out New Stars At A Furious Pace - SpaceDaily
6/3/2004: Space telescope glimpses births of stars- NASA - SpaceDaily
Prolongevity
Robotics:
6/3/2004: Puckish robots pull together - Nature
Space:
6/3/2004: Probe positions for Saturn orbit -
BBC
6/3/2004: NASA optimistic on robotic Hubble repair - New
Scientist
6/3/2004: NASA Chief Calls For Robots To Save Hubble - Space.com
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Technology:
6/3/2004: Big Fun From a Big Brother Tool -
ABC
6/3/2004: Tech Support -
ABC
6/3/2004: Smart music system skips to chorus - Nature
6/3/2004: Lord of the molecular rings created - New
Scientist
6/3/2004: Nanotechnology Comes To The Pacific Rim - SpaceDaily
6/3/2004: Nanoparticles Illuminate Brain Tumors For Days Under MRI - SpaceDaily
6/3/2004: Staying On Path One Atom At A Time - SpaceDaily