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Sound analysis of sperm whale “clicks” suggests they might have names, similar to the individual, identifying whistles that dolphins display. And we thought they just sang to one another.

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iFive: Google Buys Admeld, Google’s BBM Rival, Apple Intervenes In IP Suit, Security Holes In Popular Apps, Congress Tweets Less

Did you know that on this day in history Alcoholics Anonymous was founded, Saab made its first auto, and the first Apple II computer shipped? That was then, this is what's happening today: This is part of a 1977 advert for the Apple II. Yup, he's working the numbers over a cuppa joe while she's chopping food for dinner.

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Parts of Eastern England Declared Drought-stricken

LONDON (Reuters) - Parts of the East Anglia region in eastern England have been declared to be in a state of drought after some areas of the country had their driest spring on record, the British government said on Friday. Declaring a region to be in a state of drought allows water companies to place curbs on the use of water

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Physicists Dispute Table-Top Relativity Test

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Can the time-warping ways of Einstein's theory of general relativity be measured by the quantum 'ticking' of an atom? In 2010, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, claimed in Nature that they had used an inexpensive table-top apparatus to show how gravity had altered a fundamental oscillation of two atoms.

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Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuclear Plant

A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said. The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March.

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