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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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Earless bunny video stokes Japan nuke fears
"Nuclear rabbit" tape posted on YouTube shows bunny supposedly born near crippled Fukushima plant; Sign of mutations to come?
Read More »Too Hard for Science? Regaining the Element of Surprise
How Do You Repeat Experiments That Require Volunteers to Not Know What's Next?
Read More »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
Read More »Germany: E. coli definitely came from sprouts
Disease officials say evidence sufficient to blame outbreak, for 2nd time, on locally-grown veggie sprouts
Read More »PGT: Barkley may switch to lefty for celeb event
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Read More »PGT: Mathis shoots 65 to lead St. Jude Classic
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Read More »PGT: Tiger’s absence leads to cheaper Open tickets
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Read More »Mindy Kim shoots 64 to take LPGA lead
Mindy Kim shot a career-low 64 to take a two-stroke lead after the first round lead of the LPGA State Farm Classic on Thursday.
Read More »FCC Praises The Internet For News Evolution, Then Blames It For Crappy News Quality
The FCC's "The Information Needs of Communities" report is out , examining the state of news sharing across the U.S., and boy, it's a doozy.
Read More »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.
Read More »PGT: British Open site battling drought
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Read More »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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