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Extinct elephant bird of Madagascar could live again

Towering 10 feet into the air and weighing more than half a ton, it was the biggest bird that ever lived until French colonists wiped it out more than three hundred years ago.

1 hours ago from Telegraph.co.uk

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Cisco unveils system for super-fast Internet

Cisco Systems on Tuesday unveiled super-fast Internet hardware that promises to boost US competitiveness and bolster economic recovery by moving mountains of data at astounding speeds.

13 hours ago from The Independent

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Seafarers' scourge provides hope for biofuel future

For centuries, seafarers were plagued by wood-eating gribble that destroyed their ships, and these creatures continue to wreak damage on wooden piers and docks in coastal communities.

Mon 8 Mar 10 from PhysOrg

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Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in California

(AP) -- A Toyota Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway was towed to a dealership Tuesday while federal and company inspectors converged on the car to determine whether a stuck ...

10 hours ago from PhysOrg

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'The Rosenfeld' named after California's godfather of energy efficiency

Pioneering French physicists Marie and Pierre Curie have the curie, a unit of radioactivity, named after them. Renowned inventor Nikola Tesla is honored with the tesla, which measures a magnetic ...

11 hours ago from PhysOrg

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Chemical competition: Research identifies new mechanism regulating embryonic development

A Princeton University-led research team has discovered that protein competition over an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals that direct early embryonic development. ...

15 hours ago from PhysOrg

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On latest guitar game, players strum real strings

(AP) -- A new musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument.

13 hours ago from PhysOrg

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Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba

A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services ...

8 hours ago from USA today

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The alpine marmot spreads into the Catalan Pyrenees

Researchers from the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have demonstrated, using a map of the potential distribution, ...

15 hours ago from PhysOrg

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Google 'secretly testing new TV search service'

Google and the number two US satellite TV operator Dish Network Corp are jointly testing a television programing search service, it was reported yesterday.

22 hours ago from The Independent

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