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Rare Glimpse of Sun-like Star at Birth - Space.com In a rare find, astronomers have glimpsed the birth of a Sun-like star whose environs might resemble our solar system in its infancy that could aid in finding nascent planet systems around other stars. The newborn star, less than a million years old, lights up a surrounding dust cloud called McNeil's Nebula, named for Kentucky amateur astronomer Jay McNeil, who first spotted the fuzzy patch of light with his backyard telescope on Jan. 23. |
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Ship-Sinking Monster Waves Revealed By ESA Satellites - SpaceDaily Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings. Results from ESA's ERS satellites helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue' waves and are now being used to study their origins. Severe weather has sunk more than 200 supertankers and container ships exceeding 200 metres in length during the last two decades. |
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Bush Signs Bioterror Law - SpaceDaily Left: The purchase of 75 million doses of an improved anthrax vaccine for the Strategic National Stockpile was already in the works, Bush said. The Project BioShield Act, which authorizes spending $5.6 billion over 10 years for vaccine-related programs, was signed in a White House ceremony just hours before senior White House staff members were to receive a briefing on findings and recommendations from the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. |
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Biosciences:
8/2/2004: The Roach That Failed
- NY
Times
8/2/2004: Plant Respiration Not Just An Evolutionary Leftover, Study Shows - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Growing New Breed Of Vaccine-Producing Plants To Fight Human Diseases Worldwide - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Wasp Researcher Doesn't Mind An Occasional Sting - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Briggs Takes To The Molecular Level Darwin's Findings On Plants Sensing The Direction Of Light - Science
Daily
Climate, Environment:
8/2/2004: Ship-Sinking Monster Waves Revealed By ESA Satellites - SpaceDaily
8/2/2004: 'Devil in the
Mountain': Making the Rocks Talk - NY
Times
8/2/2004: Geologists Discover Water Cuts Through Rock At Surprising Speed - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Bone, Enamel, Dentine, Milk And Saliva Share Gene Family - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: MSG-1 Gives Brits More Opportunity To Talk About The Weather - SpaceDaily
8/2/2004: San Andreas Quakes Have Almost Always Been Big
Ones: Paleoseismologists - SpaceDaily
8/2/2004: Strong earthquake rocks Indonesia ... - FirstScience
8/2/2004: Environmental Data to Be Streamlined -
ABC
Computers:
Devices
8/2/2004: ESPN NFL 2K5 a Promising Recruit - Wired News
8/2/2004: RealNetworks: Files Play on IPod - Wired News
Communications
8/2/2004: HP to Dick
Tracy: Bet your phone can't do this - C/Net
8/2/2004: China's handset makers prepare to call overseas - El.
Engr. Times
8/2/2004: HP iPaq taps wide variety of formats - Seattle
Times
8/2/2004: Cellphone doubles as electronic wallet - Seattle
Times
Technology
PC's
8/2/2004: Ink Inc. - C/Net
Internet
8/2/2004: Taxes on tap for Net
chat? - C/Net
8/2/2004: Google IPO worth up to $3.3B - CNN
8/2/2004: Web's video progress is slow motion - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Unleashing the Web Police - Wired News
8/2/2004: Tibet opens authoritative website on science, tech ... - FirstScience
Miscellaneous
8/2/2004: The Empire Blogs Back - Wired News
Energy:
8/2/2004: US nuclear clean-up carries major risks - New
Scientist
8/2/2004: Solar power pioneers putting West to the test - Seattle
Times
Health:
Cardiovascular
Cancer
8/2/2004: Researchers Find Genetic-Lung Cancer Link -
ABC
Infectious
8/2/2004: Yale Scientists Visualize Details Of How Hepatitis C Unwinds RNA - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Feds Caution on Certain Blood Donations -
ABC
Non-Infectious
Miscellaneous
8/2/2004: Movies Can Raise Or Lower Hormone Levels - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Good Bacteria Trigger Proteins To Protect The Gut - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Rare, fatal injury baffles science, sports ... - USA Today
8/2/2004: Prescription Drug-Prenatal Study Coming -
ABC
History, Anthropology:
8/2/2004: Family words came first for early humans - New
Scientist
Miscellaneous:
8/2/2004: Bush Signs Bioterror Law - SpaceDaily
8/2/2004: Video coach prepares athletes for Athens - CNN
8/2/2004: U.S. EE forms outsourcing firm in Russia - El.
Engr. Times
8/2/2004: Fighter pilots could command drone 'swarms' - New
Scientist
8/2/2004: Experts are
right: Silicon Valley is coming back - Seattle
Times
8/2/2004: First Missile Interceptor Emplaced In Alaska Silo - SpaceDaily
8/2/2004: Flight-Mapping Software Offers Diverse Capabilities - SpaceDaily
8/2/2004: Outside
View: The war of ideas - Part 3 - SpaceDaily
8/2/2004: China launches second Double Star - SpaceDaily
8/2/2004: Taiwan deploys missiles off China - SpaceDaily
8/2/2004: Asian Telcom Ministers Agree to Work Toward Radio-Tracking Chip Standard - Technology
Review
8/2/2004: MoveOn Moves Up in the World - Wired News
8/2/2004: Put a Trainer in Your Pocket - Wired News
8/2/2004: Feds Halt Classified Work at Labs - Wired News
8/2/2004: Center to Boost Science Appreciation ... - Washington Post
8/2/2004: Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs ... - Scientific American
Neurosciences:
8/2/2004: Seroxat controversy deepens with Europe-wide warning on suicide - New
Scientist
8/2/2004: The Blind Really Do Hear Better - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Stuttering More Than Talk – Research Shows Brain's Role In Disorder - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Medication Helps Quell The Agitation Of Dementia - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Spinning Brains
Physics and Astronomy:
8/2/2004: Rare
Glimpse of Sun-like Star at Birth - Space.com
8/2/2004: Second Double Star Satellite Successfully Launched - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: India to launch astronomy satellite ... - FirstScience
8/2/2004: Questions That Plague
Physics: A Conversation with Lawrence M. Krauss ... - Scientific American
8/2/2004: CERN's New Particle Accelerator Promises Window on Big Bang ... - FirstScience
Prolongevity
Robotics:
8/2/2004: Not "I, Robot" - Seattle
Times
8/2/2004: Someday your robo-maid may watch "I, Robot" - Seattle
Times
8/2/2004: Social Robots To Participate In AAAI's Annual Mobile Robot Challenge - SpaceDaily
Space:
8/2/2004: Sunspot grows to 20 times size of Earth - Space.com
8/2/2004: NASA Sending A MESSENGER To Mercury - Science
Daily
8/2/2004: Mercury Mission Set to Launch - Wired News
8/2/2004: Traveling Onboard Spinning Spaceships ... - FirstScience
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Technology:
8/2/2004: Graphite magnets get ready for applications - PhysicsWeb
8/2/2004: Less Lost in Translation - Technology
Review