he US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases. Close-up, ground-level imagery of US military sites posed a "potential threat" to security, it said. The move
Scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson in the North Pacific have sighted a creature of great rarity and even myth: a white whale. The white killer whale was spotted with its pod about two miles off Kanaga Volcano,
Citing January as evidence, experts said the Heels couldn't defend like champs. Tell that to Duke, Gary Parrish says after No. 1 UNC wins 78-68, potentially setting a friendly course to the Final Four.
Perry Stevenson had 18 points -- including the game-clinching free throws with 9.6 seconds remaining -- and 10 rebounds as surging Kentucky held off Florida 75-70 on Sunday, bolstering its once fading NCAA tournament hopes.
For the second straight day, North Carolina celebrated an Atlantic Coast Conference championship at the expense of its biggest rival. Erlana Larkins and Cetera DeGraffenreid each scored 17 points Sunday to help the second-ranked Tar Heels beat No. 12 Duke
Adam Emmenecker wound up a dazzling weekend with 16 points and six assists and Jonathan Cox had 20 points, leading No. 20 Drake to its first Missouri Valley Conference tournament title with a 79-49 rout of Illinois State on Sunday.
The Santa Clara Broncos face the Gonzaga Bulldogs for the third time this season on Sunday, Mar. 9. The Broncos and Bulldogs square off in the West Coast Conference semifinals at 6:30 p.m. at the Jenny Craig Pavilion. The game
Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter`s magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth, according to new research published in Nature Physics this week. The discovery overturns a theory that has held sway for more than a
Jules Verne, the first of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV), a new series of autonomous spaceships designed to re-supply and re-boost the International Space Station (ISS), was successfully launched into low Earth orbit by an Ariane 5
The Milagro experiment has announced the discovery of an excess flux of TeV cosmic rays from the general direction of the heliotail, also close to the Galactic anti-Center. The hypothesis that the excess cosmic rays were produced in the SN
UC Irvine researchers have discovered a dramatically improved method for genetically manipulating human embryonic stem cells, making it easier for scientists to study and potentially treat thousands of disorders ranging from Huntington's disease to muscular dystrophy and diabetes. The technique
Anyone who has been doing business in China for a long time has heard/seen this story a million times. But that is why it is so important. Check out this post, entitled, "The China Price: Fishing for Fast Change."...read more
Eugene M. Izhikevich and Gerald M. Edelman * The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, CA 92121 Contributed by Gerald M. Edelman, December 27, 2007 (received for review December 21, 2007) The understanding of the structural and
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Since donating filigrees for "Gilded Gingerbread", a birdhouse designed and donated by a local Realtor in 2007, to be sold at the 14th Annual Birdhouse show and auction, Stephen Guyot, President of Guyot Brothers Company, Inc., has had it in
Son wanted roller hockey, wife wanted to figure skate, daughter and dad wanted to play tennis. A Sport Court backyard game court was designed to accomodate all of them, but they had to buy and tear down the house next
