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280 articles from FRIDAY 6.1.2012
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FRIDAY 6. JANUARY, 2012
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23:57
Nomination for Katrina breach sites sparks debate (AP)
AP - A push to place levee breach sites from Hurricane Katrina on the National Register of Historic Places is cause for consternation at the federal agency that built the floodwalls that failed during the 2005 storm. -
23:52
"Virgin Birth" Record Broken by Hotel Shark
A zebra shark at the "world's most luxurious hotel" has experienced four straight years of reproductive success—no male required.
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23:30
Stephen Hawking has a great mind – and heart | Kathy Sykes
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23:29
Aging mice injected with stem cells lived three times as long, according to findings one scientist found initially unbelievable.
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23:02
Rare 'supersoldier' ants created in Canadian lab
Canadian researchers have discovered they can induce supersoldier ants — whose bodies react to stress by expanding in size with huge oblong heads and giant vicious jaws — in the Pheidole ant species.
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22:49
Bycatch-22: Protecting Butterfish
Scientists work to assist fishermen in ways to avoid accidentally hauling in butterfish, a species protected by fishing limits. The researchers develop models to predict where the fish will be.
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22:49One gene appears to regulate the brain's ability to form new memories.
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22:49A revolutionary new technology helps with cyber security.
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22:49Neuroscientists have identified face-recognition areas based on what parts of the brain they link to.
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22:49A new analysis of tobacco industry documents shows that Philip Morris USA manipulated data on the effects of additives in cigarettes, including menthol, obscuring actual toxicity levels and increasing the risk of heart, cancer and other diseases for smokers, study says.
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22:30SPACE.com - A veteran skywatcher has snapped an amazing video of Russia's failed Mars probe as the craft heads toward a destructive plunge into Earth's atmosphere this month.
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22:24
A decade of research proves PET effectively detects dementia
In a new review of imaging studies spanning more than ten years, scientists find that a method of positron emission tomography (PET) safely and accurately detects dementia, including the most common and devastating form among the elderly, Alzheimer's disease. This research is featured in the January issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. -
22:24The holidays are over, January has arrived, and many of us enter the New Year determined to live our lives a little healthier than last.
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22:24A new University of Florida study shows genomes of a recently formed plant species to be highly unstable, a phenomenon that may have far-reaching evolutionary consequences.
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22:24Philippine wildlife authorities seized a huge shipment of meat and scales from up to a hundred slaughtered pangolins, also known as scaly anteaters, officials said on Friday.
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22:24Netflix's streaming-video audience of more than 20 million subscribers has led many to label it a kind of digital TV network, and one that may grow into an HBO rival - if it's not already.
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22:09
AP - Susan Marino started Angel's Gate animal hospice more than a decade ago to care for animals with special needs: Dogs paralyzed after being hit by cars; cats with severe deformities; a Labrador retriever born without lower limbs, now fitted with orthotics.
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22:01HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Air pollution may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure in black American women, a new study suggests.
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21:57
Coffee Cup Alerts Mount Rainier Campers
When a helicopter pilot needed to alert several Mount Rainier campers that a deadly attacker was on the run, he used a low-tech solution: coffee cups. -
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Road Checks for Invasive Species
Minnesota officials will check for the presence of zebra mussels and other invaders in boats being hauled along the state's roads.
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21:45AP - A federal judge said Friday he's not yet willing to block collection of an $18 billion court judgment against the energy giant Chevron for environmental damage in an Ecuadorean rain forest despite claims by Chevron that it faces imminent irreparable harm to its holdings around the world if U.S. courts do not intervene.
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21:39Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell sold his mission notebook in auction for $388,375. NASA's not happy.
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21:37Reuters - Biotechnology companies, having outperformed the broader stock market in 2011, are for the first time bracing for competition from generic drug makers in an increasingly cost-conscious U.S. healthcare market.
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21:25
1 Percent of Mobile Users Hog 50 Percent of Capacity
As in the national debate over the economy, the mobile world, it seems, also has a "1 percent." But rather than hogging all the wealth, this 1 percent hogs data.A new study by Arieso, a London-based firm that provides network management software solutions, suggests that just 1 percent of mobile Internet users are hogging a whopping 50 percent of all the data surging through wireless connections.
And with an "explosive" growth in mobile data demand, Apple's newest iPhone model, the 4S, not surprisingly has the hungriest users. Comparing data usage across a variety of smartphones and connected devices, Arieso found that 4S users demand three times as much data as iPhone 3G users and twice as much as iPhone 4 users, the most demanding lot in last year's study. The data-heavy Siri voice-command-operated data assistant is a primary feature of the 4S, and soon after its release Apple's server for the system briefly crashed.
3G Benchmark Arieso used the usage level of iPhone 3G as a "normalized benchmark" by which to compare other smartphones. The other top smartphones for data hogs are HTC and Google's Nexus One, Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10i and HTC's Desire.
Michael Flanagan, CTO of Arieso and author of the study, said the data was gathered from network operators in a European city and its suburbs. But he said "many parts of the study are illustrative results, no matter what country you are in."
In a phone interview from London, Flanagan said it was impossible to determine precisely how those data hogs are using their phones because the information is collected through billable data meters, not from application usage.
"However," he said, "we can speculate based on other work we do that this very much falls into two categories of known devices: 3G data card or dongle-type plug-in laptop users, which are...
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21:24In time for next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony is launching a new generation in memory cards. Called XQD, they will initially come in 16 and 32 GB sizes, and feature data transfer rates of 1Gbps/125MB/s. Nikon is also announcing a new flagship camera in its digital single-lens reflex line, the first camera to use the new memory cards.
The target market for the new cards is the advanced photographer who deals with huge image files in RAW format. Fast write speeds mean shooters have less waiting between shots in memory-heavy formats such as RAW, and can edit previously recorded material faster.
In compatible DSLR cameras, such as the new Nikon, shooters can capture as many as 100 RAW images in continuous shooting mode, without pausing.
'Entirely New Meaning' Viviano Cantu, director of consumer media for Sony Electronics, said in a statement that, while "memory card technology has done a great job of keeping pace," the new cards "give an entirely new meaning to speed and performance."
The XQD memory card spec, announced in November and recently approved by the CompactFlash Association as an open format, requires the PCIe expansion card standard for serial interfaces and an optimized controller in order to take advantage of the speed.
Along with the card, Sony is introducing a new USB 2.0/3.0 compatible XQD card reader. An XQD ExpressCard Adapter is available for computers with an ExpressCard 34 card slot. The memory cards will be on sale in February, at $130 for the 16 GB and $230 for the 32 GB.
The new format was adopted by the CompactFlash Association in December, and is about 75 percent the physical size of current CompactFlash cards. While CompactFlash cards are based on the older PCMCIA standard, XQD are built around PCI Express. Sony said that capacities and transfer speeds substantially...
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