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Japanese Shell subsidiary plans solar-panel plant
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| Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary Showa Shell Sekiyu, Japan's fifth-largest oil refiner, plans to invest 100 billion yen, or about $938 million, in a solar-panel megaplant, according to AFP. |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:41:37 GMT |
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Alcohol Powder Puts A Party In A Packet
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| Since 1969 a U.S. patent has been registered on the process of turning alcohol into powder. This year, products, such as gelatin shots and margaritas, based from alcohol powder are set to be released by Pulver Spirits and BPNC Distillery |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:10:59 GMT |
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GILZ: Small Protein May Mean More Bone And Less Fat
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| A small protein may have a big role in helping you make more bone and less fat, says Dr. Xingming Shi, bone biologist at the Medical College of Georgia Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics. "The pathways are parallel, and the idea is if you can somehow disrupt the fat production pathway, you will get more bone" |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:08:33 GMT |
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Increased Calories Necessary for Victims of Traumatic Brain Injury
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| Starve a fever, feed a traumatic brain injury. Recent studies by clinician-scientists from New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center found that patients with traumatic brain injury, or TBI, have a higher survival rate when their caloric intake is increased. |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:07:26 GMT |
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Wii Fit Suffers the Same Fate as Most Exercise Equipment: Survey
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Ever buy a piece of home exercise equipment? If you have, you've probably also experienced the typical result: after a brief spurt of usage, the equipment ended up in the garage, or at least unused. It's often the fate of gym memberships as well. The Wii Fit has sold millions of copies in Japan and elsewhere, but the question has been: how long would people stay with it? |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:24:32 GMT |
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Microsoft to Offer Office Software Subscriptions
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Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software. |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:22:26 GMT |
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German 'eBay Baby' Back at Home
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A baby boy removed from his parents' custody after they offered to sell him on eBay for just a euro - $1.59 - as a joke is back at home, a prosecutor said Thursday. |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:21:46 GMT |
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Not Everyone Wants Broadband. Seriously.
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A new study (.PDF) released Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project reveals that not everyone wants broadband. Seriously. According to the study, 55% of adult Americans now have broadband internet connections at home, up from 47% in 2007. Also according to the study, with the increase in broadband adoption, only 10% of Americans have dial-up. |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:34:31 GMT |
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Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming
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A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride , is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming. |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:05:56 GMT |
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Apple Slashes Price of SSD-Based MacBook Air by $500
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| Without much fanfare, Apple has made a couple of pretty significant price cuts to the MacBook Air. The total of the cuts comes to a pretty nice $500. |
| Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:06:43 GMT |
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Better Exercise With A Carbohydrate And Caffeine Post-Workout Meal
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| Recipe to recover more quickly from exercise: Finish workout, eat pasta, and wash down with five or six cups of strong coffee. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:09:51 GMT |
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What Bacteria Can Teach Us About Surviving Global Warming
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| Dr. Berend Stoel from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), in collaboration with renowned luthier Terry Borman, has put classical violins in a CT scanner and discovered that the homogeneity in the densities of the wood from which the classical violins were made may explain their superior sound production. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:08:35 GMT |
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Viacom Granted Access to All YouTube User Data: Court
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Last night the federal court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to hand over (.PDF) user data for all videos watched on YouTube to Viacom, stating: Plaintiffs seek all data from the Logging database concerning each time a YouTube video has been viewed on the YouTube website or through embedding on a third-party website. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:49:29 GMT |
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Is There Fundamental Scientific Disagreement About Evolutionary Theory?
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Creationists and their intellectual cousins, intelligent design proponents, keep saying that scientists disagree as to 'the truth' of evolution, and that the field is therefore in crisis. As is common in these circumstances, some creationist claims are in fact correct, but trivially so, while the use that creationists attempt to make of the claims themselves is highly (and possibly willfully) misleading. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:32:45 GMT |
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'Diablo III' From the Top Down
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Leonard Boyarsky wasn't the only big Blizzard developer we spoke to this past weekend in Paris. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:44:34 GMT |
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Remnants cannot tell a lie: George Washington's boyhood home found
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George Washington Foundation director of archaeology David Muraca, left, and GWF research fellow Philip Levy examine evidence of a fire that damaged the Washington family home in 1740. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:41:00 GMT |
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Single-Sex Future Looms for Rare Ancient Reptiles
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A female tuatara poking her head out of a nest. A female tuatara poking her head out of a nest. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:38:27 GMT |
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Voyager squashes view of solar system
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Scientists using data from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft have observed the bubble of solar wind surrounding the solar system is not round, but has a squashed shape, according to recent data published as part of a series of papers in this week's Nature. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:31:45 GMT |
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Government lifts solar project ban on public lands
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Companies planning to build huge solar power plants in the desert will be able to file new applications to use federal lands after the Bureau of Land Management reversed its position on the issue Tuesday. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:28:30 GMT |
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Firefox Does It: Sets a Guinness World Record
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| Well, they wanted to set a record, and they did it. Mozilla now holds a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. |
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:28:03 GMT |