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Mars site may hold buried life

BBC, Fri July 30, 2010, comments (1)
Researchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars.



Paralyzed may soon steer wheelchair with just a sniff

MSNBC, Tue July 27, 2010, comments (0)
A device that detects the subtle movements needed to sniff air through the nose or mouth can steer a wheelchair or allow completely paralyzed people to type messages, Israeli researchers reported Monday.



700 new planets discovered by NASA

Toronto Sun, Mon July 26, 2010, comments (0)
NASA's deep-space Kepler probe has found hundreds of new planets — many similar to earth — sparking new hope of life outside our solar system.



Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge

Story contains video BBC, Sun July 25, 2010, comments (1)
Archaeologists have discovered a second henge at Stonehenge, described as the most exciting find there in 50 years.



Pann-Starrs telescope begins operations to hunt asteroids

BBC, Thu June 17, 2010, comments (0)
A new telescope facility in Hawaii designed to search for asteroids and comets which could threaten Earth has been made operational.



How lasers will light up the future of medicine

BBC, Mon May 24, 2010, comments (2)
by Philippa Roxby Health reporter, BBC News An eye More than 100,000 laser eye surgery procedures are performed every year A whole range of medical procedures rely on lasers, so much so that we don't even realise we're being treated using Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (LASER).



Resurrected: woolly mammoth blood protein

New Scientist, Sun May 02, 2010, comments (40)
Floating in a test tube in a lab in Winnipeg, Canada, is a tiny speck of woolly mammoth – a blood protein which may explain how the animals coped with the cold of an ice age.



Sony aims for zero footprint

Sideways News, Mon April 12, 2010, comments (2)
Sony has become the largest multinational corporation to announce its intention to have a zero environmental footprint by 2050, including zero carbon emissions and the elimination of all non-renewable material from its products.



Government pledges cash for eco-drivers

Sideways News, Fri February 26, 2010, comments (0)
The Government has promised to slash 25% off the price of a low-carbon car up to a maximum of £5,000 as part of plans to reduce the UK's carbon footprint.



Typos may earn Google £320m a year

Sideways News, Fri February 19, 2010, comments (0)
"Typosquatting", where companies and individuals register a misspelled variant of a popular web domain, may be earning Google as much as $500 million (£320 million) annually, New Scientist reports.

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