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‘Getting back on the saddle’

A travel-weary Rory McIlroy pledged to put his final-round collapse at the Masters behind him by delivering a strong performance in this week's Malaysian Open.

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McIlroy vows to bounce back after Masters collapse

A jet-lagged and travel-weary Rory McIlroy has pledged to put his final-round collapse at the Masters behind him by delivering a strong performance in this week's Malaysian Open.

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Dropped-Call Rage May Abate Thanks to Cellphone Signal Advances From MIT

By using the host of position-relating sensors in modern smartphones, scientists at MIT think they could make the phones and network perform better so your calls don't drop when you're on the move. When you're strolling or rolling through a crowded city chatting on your cellphone, there are a number of things that can get in the way of your call working properly. A primary culprit is handoff between different cell towers.

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Coast Benefits: NASA Announces Retirement Homes for Space Shuttles

The launching and landing of space shuttles has always been a fairly coastal affair: The shuttles take off from Florida and almost always touch down in Florida or California. (Once, in 1982, a shuttle landed at New Mexico's White Sands Space Harbor.) NASA is continuing that coastal tradition with the placement of its retired and retiring shuttles , whose final homes were announced April 12. The three shuttles will be displayed in Florida, Los Angeles and Virginia, and a test-flight shuttle that never reached orbit will go to New York City.

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Octopuses and squid are damaged by noise pollution

Not only can squids and octopuses sense sound, but as it turns out, these and other so-called cephalopods might be harmed by growing noise pollution in our oceans--from sources such as offshore drilling, ship motors, sonar use and pile driving. [More]

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Carbon-Fiber iDevices? We Think Not

According to new information that's allegedly leaking from Apple , Steve Jobs is intent on pushing for wireless iDevice syncing. Better Wi-Fi connections thanks to a carbon fiber chassis may be the solution, it is said. Let's see if this makes sense.

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Herpes lurks even without symptoms

Even people who don't show symptoms of genital herpes can harbor active forms of the virus that can be spread to sexual partners, according to a new study.

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Is Fukushima really as bad as Chernobyl?

One month to the day after the devastating twin blows of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent 15-meter tall tsunami, Japanese officials have reclassified the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at the highest possible level. The partial meltdown of three reactors and at least two spent fuel pools, along with multiple hydrogen explosions at the site now rate a 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale--a level previously affixed only to the meltdown and explosion at Chernobyl

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NPR Launching Centralized Online Ad Network to Bolster Revenue at Member Stations

While NPR fights a defunding battle, the network unleashes a new weapon: A proprietary advertising network that will allow geo-targeted sponsoring of live streams. While NPR is facing funding battles in Congress (that as of press time they may have won ), the public radio network has been quietly laying the groundwork for a nationwide online advertising network that could massively increase underwriting dollars at member stations. The move is part of a much larger and audacious plan on NPR's part: The idea that local public radio affiliates can be transformed into news portals on par with local newspapers

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Radiation Release Will Hit Marine Life

By Quirin Schiermeier of Nature magazine As radioisotopes pour into the sea from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, one reassuring message has been heard over and over again: the Pacific Ocean is a big place. That the isotopes will be vastly diluted is not in question

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