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Comet Hale-Bopp 'Frozen To Death'
astroengine writes “In 1997, comet Hale-Bopp became the most spectacular space event of the past few decades. But where’s the huge lump of ice now? Astronomers have decided to check in on the…
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Firefox 4 Breaks the 10% Mark
This weekend, Firefox 4 broke through the 10% mark, according to StatCounter Global Stats, a popular measure of worldwide browser usage.

The line should spike up even stronger when we turn…
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Non abbiate paura delle nuove tecnologie! Esse sono «tra le cose meravigliose» — «inter mirifica» — che Dio ci ha messo a disposizione per scoprire, usare, far conoscere la verità, anche la verità sulla nostra dignità e sul nostro destino di figli suoi, eredi del suo Regno eterno.Lettera Apostolica “Il rapido sviluppo” ai responsabili delle comunicazioni sociali
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MESSENGER Finds Where X Marks the Spot on Mercury

An unnamed crater on Mercury taken by MESSENGER’s Narrow Angle Camera. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Buried treasure…
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Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they’re getting harder to find.
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Brainstorming Clever Ways To Detect Alien Civilizations
Phoghat writes “In what is starting to become a familiar theme, researchers have speculated on what types of observational data from distant planetary systems might indicate the presence of an alien…
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Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery At LHC
Magnifico writes “LiveScience is reporting that scientists are abuzz over a controversial rumor that the ‘God particle’ has been detected by a particle-detection experiment at LHC at CERN. The Higgs…
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Error'd: Log in, Log out
“From the new Medal of Honor,” writes Michael, “I just wanted to log out, and even though I already WAS logged in I apparently needed to log in again in order to log out.”
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Instant Quantum Communication Is Near
fljmayer writes “In this experiment, researchers in Australia and Japan were able to transfer quantum information from one place to another without having to physically move it. It was destroyed in…
