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The decision to abort was made a just few minutes from the start of the launch window, which opened at 0303 PDT. "Today's attempt to launch the CALIPSO and CloudSat satellites has been scrubbed due to loss of vital communications between the CALIPSO spacecraft and a monitoring link in France," said NASA in a statement. CALIPSO was developed by collaboration between NASA and the French space agency, CNES.

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Astronomers will soon be treated to a close-up celestial show, with a fragmenting comet streaming across the sky in more than 30 chunks. Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has been breaking up since 1995, but between 12 and 14 May will come closer to the Earth than any comet since 1983. Fortunately no threat is posed to Earth since, even at its closest, the nearest of the pieces will be twenty times more distant than the Moon.

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The 24-page bill is a far-reaching medley of different proposals cobbled together. One would, for instance, create a new federal crime of just trying to commit copyright infringement. Such willful attempts at piracy, even if they fail, could be punished by up to 10 years in prison. It also represents a political setback for critics of expanding copyright law, who have been backing federal legislation that veers in the opposite direction and permits bypassing copy protection for "fair use" purposes. That bill--introduced in 2002 by Rep. Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat--has been bottled up in a subcommittee ever since.

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NVIDIA has taken advantage of their leading position when it comes to multi-GPU technology, which they have introduced quite successfully some years ago. This technology was launched as SLI, Scalable Link Interface to bundle the performance of two graphics cards. SLI is a high-performance technology that intelligently combines and scales graphics performance and visual quality by having multiple NVIDIA GPU's in a single system. NVIDIA has puched once again the limits and instead of running two video cards together in SLI mode, they can now run four graphics processors in SLI mode, known as Quad SLI.

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The powerfull little Radeon X1600 XT VPU is built on TSMC's 90 nm manufacturing process, and contains 157 million transistors, slim by today's standards. The Radeon X1600 XT core has a total of 12 pixel pipelines and 5 vertex pipelines to keep the triangles flowing along smoothly. At stock settings, we're looking at a videocard core which runs along at about 587 MHz, with 256MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.3GHz (effective: 693 MHz).

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Legit Reviews was able to go out and purchase the Intel Pentium D Processor 805, a $130 processor, and overclock it to run with the best that Intel has to offer. In terms of overclocking this processor couldn't be any easier to overclock. With no voltage increase required to run 3.8GHz, all that needs really needs to be adjusted is the memory divider and the Front Side Bus (FSB).

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What happens if the fastest core speed is combined with the most advanced technology - in this case featuring dual cores? For single threaded applications, the obvious answer is nothing much but fortunately, it appears that we are finally getting away from DOS and migrating towards a world dominated by massive multitasking. Dual cores, even more than single cores, have a sheer insatiable hunger for data which increases with any additional speedstep. Using the HyperTransport interface grants the AMD design a substantial advantage over Intel's front side bus with its bidirectional data bus. All of this combined with refined silicon mixtures to further lower the power consumption of the CPU promise the makings of another champion: Enter the AMD Athlon FX-60.

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Most people have not even heard of Super Talent, but they are not new to the memory market. They are however new to the enthusiast side of things. It looks like they know what they are doing, because these modules are FAST. Let's take a deep look and see just how impressive they are.

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If your system can effectively utilise 1GHz-rated DDR2, and it's a big if, OCZ's 2GByte pack should be at the top of your shortlist. Summing it up in a word is easy enough. That word is extreme.

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The WinFast NF4SK8AA-8EKRS motherboard was really easy to work with and posed no problems with anything that we threw at it. The NF4SK8AA-8EKRS also did very well for itself in the area of overclocking. Being able to run my Opteron 146 at 2.9ghz+ was pretty impressive on this sub-$100 board.

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Is the Socket 754 dead? I don't think so! I believe it is alive and well and still being supported by many manufacturers. One of those manufacturers is Albatron, in January of this year they released a few new socket 754 boards, in this review I will be taking a look at one of them that is based on the NF4 chipset with built in NVIDIA Geforce 6100 graphics engine. The KM51G is a Micro-ATX form factor with lots of great features built into it. I've found that it is a great all around board, and not a bad overclocker either. Let's check it out...

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"This is all about producing energy in such a way that it liberates people," said Goran Jovanovic, a chemical engineering professor at Oregon State University who developed the microreactor. The device - about the size of a credit card - pumps vegetable oil and alcohol through tiny parallel channels, each smaller than a human hair, to convert the oil into biodiesel almost instantly. By comparison, it takes more than a day to produce biodiesel with current technology.

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The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is funding a team of researchers working on a new design for an antimatter-powered spaceship that avoids this nasty side effect by producing gamma rays with much lower energy. Antimatter is sometimes called the mirror image of normal matter because while it looks just like ordinary matter, some properties are reversed. For example, normal electrons, the familiar particles that carry electric current in everything from cell phones to plasma TVs, have a negative electric charge. Anti-electrons have a positive charge, so scientists dubbed them "positrons".

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The company advertises "Space science at a 'bake sale' price", although the $99 per can is an introductory offer and will later rise to $199. And larger 5-kilogram (11-pound) canisters can be reserved for $1250. After the novelty of sending random objects into space wears off, Mealling believes educational projects like telescopes, biology experiments or Earth-imaging missions will be the CanSats' main cargo.

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Philips suggests adding flags to commercial breaks to stop a viewer from changing channels until the adverts are over. The flags could also be recognised by digital video recorders, which would then disable the fast forward control while the ads are playing. Philips' patent acknowledges that this may be "greatly resented by viewers" who could initially think their equipment has gone wrong. So it suggests the new system could throw up a warning on screen when it is enforcing advert viewing. The patent also suggests that the system could offer viewers the chance to pay a fee interactively to go back to skipping adverts.

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The damage done by the two incidents ran far deeper then a PR setback. Shortly after, 6 of Canada’s leading record labels quit the CRIA. According to the article, "(CRIA is) looking out for their best interest, and their best interest is multinationals that are not Canadian," said Ric Arboit, president of Vancouver-based Nettwerk Records. Nettwerk is known for top Canadian artists (such as Sum 41, Swollen Members and Avril Lavign), Save the Music Fan and funding the defence of an RIAA lawsuit. Nettwerk Records, Aquarius Records, the Children's Group, Linus Entertainment, Anthem Records and True North Records (all class "B" labels) all quit with a letter that states, "It has become increasingly clear over the past few months that CRIA's position on several important music industry issues are not aligned with our best interests as independent recording companies".

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A US judge quashed the firm's demands that rival Novell hand over documents it presented to the European Commission for use in an anti-trust case. The judge in the case said he had turned down the request as Microsoft was trying to "circumvent and undermine" European law.

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Burst.com is represented in the action against Apple by San Francisco law firm Hosie McArthur, who also represented Burst in its successful litigation against Microsoft Corporation. In March 2005, Microsoft settled that litigation by paying Burst $60 million for a non-exclusive license to Burst’s patents. Burst has also expanded its legal team in the Apple litigation to include attorneys from the Seattle office of Susman Godfrey, LLP, as well as Houston-based intellectual property firm Heim, Payne & Chorush, LLP. Also representing Burst is Palo Alto-based intellectual property firm Carr & Ferrell, LLP.

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The chunk came from one of the tank's two protuberance air load (PAL) ramps, which run the length of the tank and are designed to smooth the air flow over a cable tray and pressurisation lines. Computer simulations suggested this air flow would not cause the underlying equipment to break free from the tank during take off, so in December, NASA announced its aim to fly future shuttles without the PAL ramps.

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Known as the "Late Heavy Bombardment," or LHB, this period of heightened meteorite activity would have had important implications for life on Earth, since it coincides roughly with the time that scientists think the first primitive bacteria appeared on our planet.

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A proprietary driver, even if it works, raises complications. "If you have an open-source kernel...and you add a binary module into the mix, it reduces your ability to provide the customer the same level of service," said Dirk Hohndel, Intel's director of Linux and open-source strategy.

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The new V-Chip technology works by decoding ratings data transmitted along with the signal and then blocking content above a certain rating, such as TV-14 for content deemed unsuitable for children under the age of 14, or TV-MA for content deemed appropriate for mature audiences only. Using a password-protected screen reached from the menu of V-Chip-equipped TVs, parents can set boundaries for the type of content or channels their children can view.

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But while most people won't be able to get their hands on Vista until next year, consumers will be able to get some of the media enhancements sooner. Microsoft is on track to release a Windows XP version of Windows Media Player 11 before the end of June, the company confirmed last week. Microsoft has been uncharacteristically tight-lipped about the XP incarnation. The company briefly demonstrated it at the Consumer Electronics Show in January but has said little since. Microsoft has said the XP version won't have all the features of its Vista sibling, but the company won't say which features will be excluded. The company also has yet to offer a public test version of the software.

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The agency said its reporter bought several disks from the Bagram market, some of which contained confidential information about US soldiers. One file reportedly described the type of training a group of soldiers had received. Another file is said to have contained a manual for flying the US military's Chinook helicopter.

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New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, proposed in his budget that "downloaded music and videos" be taxed starting Oct. 1. The state tax agency expects legislation to be introduced in June. Taxpayer advocates have criticized the trend toward increased taxation of downloaded media files. (This is a separate debate from the one dealing with taxation on items purchased via the Internet but delivered in physical form.)

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Now, a newer variety of virtualization is emerging that employs a lighter-weight approach so that a single operating system can be sliced into independent sections. While details of the concept are just beginning to emerge, it's likely only a matter of time before it shows up in Windows and Linux. "It's something any operating system vendor has to have," said Serguei Beloussov, chief executive of software maker SWsoft, whose products enable the lightweight approach.

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Citrin ultimately decided to quit and go into business for himself, apparently in breach of his employment contract, according to IAC. Before returning the laptop to the companies, Citrin deleted all of the data he had collected--but he also deleted data that would have revealed improper conduct before deciding to quit, IAC claimed. He caused this deletion using a secure-erasure program making it impossible to recover the deleted information, it asserted.

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Last week, scientists found H5N1 bird flu for the first time in the UK, in a dead swan in Fife, Scotland. The UK's environment ministry DEFRA again stated that all wild birds tested so far were negative for flu, so it was unlikely to be widespread. Now an investigation by New Scientist suggests that all those tests were flawed, meaning no one really knows just how widespread infection among British wild birds might be.

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The committee also heard from several small groups still concerned that their email will be stopped in spam filters and that they will be charged a fee - even though AOL has offered to cover nonprofits' CertifiedEmail expenses. Florez wants California to have oversight on the AOL program and suggested that the state may get involved in regulating e-mail authentication programs.

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"What this mission buys us is an early attempt to get to know what the resources are," said Scott Horowitz, head of NASA's lunar exploration program. "We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed we're going to have to eventually live off the land." Water ice could be used to make oxygen for astronauts to breathe, as well as an oxidizer for rocket fuel.

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The critical 49-minute-long manoeuvre was designed to reduce the spacecraft's velocity relative to Venus by 15%, allowing it to be pulled into orbit around the planet. At 0845 BST, with its engine still firing, Venus Express disappeared behind the planet, severing contact between the craft and Earth.

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However, at 1.9 billion kilometres, this object is very far from the Sun. Another mysterious feature is that much more gas and dust is escaping from the breakaway fragment than from the parent body. The disintegration has created a dust cloud more than 100,000 km across and which is several times brighter than the original object was before the event.

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Spirit reached Low Ridge Haven over the weekend and as a result, the rover's power supply has been bumped up by as much as 20%, Squyres says. Science observations are just getting underway at the new site, but he says there are some "wonderful, finely-layered bedrock outcrops" there and it is likely the rover will remain there for the entire winter science campaign.

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In the past, Microsoft and Intel had more power, said Roger Kay, an analyst at Endpoint Technology Associates. There were few alternatives when PC companies wanted to buy chips or operating systems, and not many computer makers were dominant enough to set terms. But now, with major consolidation in the number of PC sellers as well, there are more power struggles, he said.

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Beyond confirming that Mr Allon was now working for Google, Mr Stead was not able to confirm any other of the reported details. However, given Google's desire to continue dominating the search business and the fact that there were other interested parties, the deal could potentially be worth millions.

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Scientists and other argue the estimated $10.5 million Brazil paid Russia for Pontes's flight would have been better spent on research back on Earth or reconstructing a space base which was destroyed by an explosion on a launch pad in 2003. The Brazilian Space Agency believes the flight will raise the profile of space research and help it increase its budget.

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For now, reality is that some consumers and reviewers are wondering what comes with Viiv PCs that can't be found elsewhere.

Intel's main promise for Viiv-branded products is that they will allow home entertainment buffs to stream downloaded video files from a PC's hard drive to a television in another room of the house, or move those files to a handheld personal media player. These capabilities won't be introduced until later this year, when Intel releases a software update that current Viiv PC owners can install to enable the new features, said Kari Skoog, an Intel spokeswoman. Intel hasn't determined how it plans to release this update, version 1.5, but promises it will be easy to implement, she said.

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X-rays from the dead star allowed US researchers to directly detect the cool disc around the pulsar 13,000 light years away from Earth, using the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared vision. The doughnut-shaped disc extends from about a million miles from its central pulsar, called 4U 0142+61, to at least 3 million miles and has a total mass about 10 times that of the Earth.

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The robot is controlled by a simple program that mimics the way neurons control reflexes in humans and other animals. Unlike most other two-legged robots, RunBot has few sensors and can detect just two things - when a foot touches the ground, and when a leg swings forward.

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Thrill seekers, however, shouldn't look for Thor Shield at New York Fabrics. G2 sells the material only under nondisclosure agreements to law enforcement agencies and the military. The idea behind the fabric is that it could prevent officers from being hurt by their own weapons.

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People on the caloric restriction diets lost an average of 10% or more of their weight. The researchers also found that these subjects had reduced fasting levels of the hormone insulin, a trait associated with longevity in animal research. They also found that volunteers who restricted their caloric intake by 25% or achieved similar results by cutting calories and upping exercise had a reduced average core body temperature at the conclusion of the six month trial. Lower body temperatures are also associated with longevity.

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But that amount of water is 10 to 20 times greater than that reported by other ground- and space-based observatories. The discrepancy underscores the difficulties scientists face in painting a coherent picture of the Deep Impact collision and its aftermath - a one-off event observed by dozens of observatories.

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Microsoft announced Monday that it plans to acquire business analytics software developer ProClarity, a third party Microsoft developer, ProClarity to increase its presence in the business intelligence market. Proclarity has business analytics that work with such Microsoft products as SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 and Microsoft Office Excel. Microsoft's Office productivity suite and server products, such as its SharePoint portal software, are expected to feature business intelligence and collaboration capabilities.

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Up to this point, Microsoft sold Virtual Server for $100 or $200, depending on the number of processors in a server. Now, it's throwing out the price, preparing for the bundling scenario a bit early. Customers can pick up Virtual Server 2005 R2 as a free download. Microsoft product marketing man Zane Adam made it rather clear that this move was intended as a blow against VMware.

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Research shows that exposure can increase obesity, tobacco and alcohol use, risky sexual behaviours, violence and social isolation, say Dimitri Christakis and Frederick Zimmerman, from the University of Washington in Seattle, in a controversial editorial. The data linking violent media to aggression, for instance, are “just as strong” as those linking smoking and lung cancer, says Christakis. US children spend more time watching TV and playing videos than any other activity except sleeping. More than a third of those under six have TVs in their bedrooms. And things are only set to get worse, as every child with a cellphone will soon to be toting a TV in his pocket, says Christakis.

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Because the PC is also a source of income for the kiosk owner, the cost can be higher than other developing world devices that have been limited in functionality by price point. Intel declined to name the price of the machine but said in a statement that it is partnering with local banks to offer payment plans to village entrepreneurs looking to set up a Community PC kiosk. The kiosk program is called "Jaagruti" (pronounced Zhah-grew-ty), which is Sanskrit for "awakening," according to Kwan.

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Further experiments on rats and human cells in the lab showed that another major UV-blocking chemical, benzophenone 2 (BP2), also disrupted hormones that act on the thyroid. But the German team also found that the presence of element iodine in the mixture prevented this negative effect. Iodine has been previously shown to affect pathways involving thyroid stimulating hormone.

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Now, amid reports of rare but serious side effects, leading researchers and doctors are calling for a review of the way ADHD is dealt with. Many prescriptions are being written by family doctors with little expertise in diagnosing ADHD, raising doubts about how many people on these stimulants really need them. Just as worrying, large numbers of children who do have ADHD are going undiagnosed.

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The hidden benefit from virtualization is that users can unpack a ready-to-run collection of software components--operating system and all--and drop it onto a fresh, empty partition of the computer called a virtual machine. No muss, no fuss, no driver updates, no configuration file tweaking, no conflicts with other software.

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Scientists from around the world traveled to prime viewing locations to watch the event, which was the last total solar eclipse until August 2008. During a total eclipse, the Moon obscures virtually all of the Sun, affording a rare opportunity to study the Sun's atmosphere, including the solar corona and clouds of dense gas called prominences.

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The Expedition 13 crew, however, has a six-month space mission ahead of them to relieve Expedition 12 commander Bill McArthur and flight engineer Valery Tokarev, who have served aboard the ISS since their orbital arrival in October 2005.

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They found similar declines in both groups in terms of their cardiorespiratory function and their ability to exercise. The amount of oxygen the men's bodies were able to use optimally during cycling tests declined by 10.4% in the astronauts and by 6.6% in the bedrest subjects. Researchers would expect to see a loss of about 10% in this measure as a result of a decade of aging on Earth.

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This is significant because it means that Apple has now committed to Windows-based performance testing, and it will influence industry-standard testing methodologies going forward, possibly including Mac OS X testing. We speculate that Apple will now develop Windows drivers for Intel Macs like the iMac, Mac mini and MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo processors. You will probably still need to buy your own copy of Windows XP (or Vista), but this is exciting stuff.

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Overall about a third of the transplanted neural stem cells survived, and 80% of these remaining cells developed into oligodendrocytes - a type of cell that provides support for nerves. This high conversion rate is crucial, according to Fehlings, because oligodendrocytes can produce myelin, the insulating layer around nerve fibres that helps to transmit signals to the brain. Myelin production is disrupted by spinal cord injury.

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They then collected the horses’ blood, separated out the antibodies and split them to make them less likely to cause an allergic reaction when injected into a human. When they injected mice with a tenth of a milligram of these antibodies 24 hours after they had been given an otherwise lethal dose of H5N1, all the mice lived.

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Huynh’s team overcame this by tweaking the distribution of charge on the nitrotetrazole molecule. Switching charge groups on the molecule also changed the substance’s overall properties, such as its sensitivity to ignition through physical contact or heat. This could allow the substance to be tailored for specific applications, says Huynh.

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Astrobiology research grants were $32.5 million per year in NASA's 2007 budget request to Congress, half of funding levels in 2005. The request, announced in February 2006, called for funding to remain constant through 2011. The cuts meant that NASA could still afford to fund the three-year grants it had already committed to through 2006, but not any research proposals it had solicited in 2005 or any new proposals in 2006, said Carl Pilcher, NASA's senior scientist for astrobiology.

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Omega-3s are found at high concentrations in oily fish and foods like flax seeds. Another class of lipid, omega-6 fatty acids, is common in meat. The Western diet has become strongly skewed towards the consumption of omega-6 fatty acids over omega-3s, and this is believed to contribute to an increased incidence of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other diseases.

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The company aims to develop cheaper rockets. Falcon 1 would cut the costs of space travel by having a reusable first stage - its launch cost $6.7 million, less that a quarter of the price of comparably sized rockets. The company says its sister rocket Falcon 9 - which has nine engines to Falcon 1’s one - could eventually carry crew or cargo to the International Space Station.

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After another delay in the release of its Windows Vista operating system, Microsoft last week put a new executive in charge of future Windows projects and replaced several other managers. The changes are designed to better align Microsoft's desktop and Internet software teams and get products to market faster.

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These "methanogens" could have helped regulate the early Earth's climate by providing greenhouse gases, helping to prevent freezing conditions that would have stifled the fragile development of life on Earth. Methane comes from three sources: through the thermal decomposition of organic material; from non-biological reactions of simple inorganic compounds; or through metabolic activity of methanogenic microbes. Each leaves a different carbon isotope signature.

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However, the mechanics of molecular machines is extraordinarily complex. It relies on the dynamics of chemical bonds and nanoscale forces, as apposed to the relatively straight-forward engineering principles at work in large-scale mechanical devices, like cars. Furthermore, magnetism becomes more important than gravity, and the strongest "welding" is a chemical bond that can be ripped open by nearby molecules. But perhaps the biggest challenge is that the devices are not usually built one molecule at a time. Instead machines such as this new one are produced by a series of chemical reactions in solution that assemble billions of billions of units at a time.

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For consumers, the purchase will mean that Alienware will now access Dell's well-known supply-chain efficiencies, ideally reducing wait times for new PCs that Alienware executives said have swelled to as much as a month or more. Interestingly, the deal also means that a PC containing a processor from Advanced Micro Devices will finally contribute to Dell's bottom line.

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Their mass is still not known, but the fact that they have mass implies there must be a fourth type of neutrino, says Scott Dodelson at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, US. That is because all other particles come by their mass through the union of two components with opposing quantum characteristics, called spin. All three known types of neutrinos have left-handed spin, so researchers argue there must be another type with right-handed spin. Called "sterile" neutrinos, they are thought to interact with normal matter only through gravity and to be more massive than ordinary neutrinos.

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The result should be a finer level of detail throughout the visible spectrum, enhancing details in shadows and making highlights come to life. In addition, high-end displays supporting 16-bit per RGB color component can be fully utilized by the FireGL V7350 and FireGL V7300. Two dual-link connectors also give end users the ability to drive multiple ultra-high resolution displays, yielding a massive desktop display over 5000 pixels wide.

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Verizon had filed a petition in December 2004 asking the FCC to free it of all regulation. The FCC was split on the issue and didn't actually vote on the petition, but the measure was granted because the commission failed to deny or accept it before a deadline last week. According to the law, if the petition had not been denied within a set period of time, it would be granted.

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Over 72 percent are not in favor of or expressed mixed feelings about the use of electronic tags, such as RFID, that are embedded in products that could be used to track identities from short distances.

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So Spirit, having finished studying the layered feature dubbed Home Plate, is now aiming to reach the northerly tilting slope of McCool Hill, which lay about 120 metres away on Friday. There its solar arrays will soak up as much sunlight as they can during their second Martian winter. Spirit will drive toward its new target backwards, dragging its broken wheel. With power and driving conditions in their compromised state, planners expect to drive the vehicle about 12 metres per day.

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NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Observatory-1 last measured this radiation in the late 1970s. It found that the total amount of high-energy radiation was about 20% less than expected from extrapolations of studies of lower energy X-rays.

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Growing needs for storage space, data protection and file sharing bode well for consumer NAS. Digital photos, video and music gobble up gigabytes of storage space. That data is increasingly valuable--think irreplaceable wedding photos--which makes backup important. And sharing information makes sense, as home networks with multiple PCs today expand to include stereo and video electronics.

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The phone companies have been forced into the TV market by the cable companies, which are now offering their own phone services to consumers. Time Warner Cable has already seen staggering uptake on its new phone service, which it bundles with its TV and high-speed broadband services. In 2005 alone, Time Warner added 880,000 new subscribers to its phone service for a total of 1.1 million voice subscribers. Others, such as Comcast and Cablevision, are also seeing strong growth in voice.

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It is not yet clear how many people have been injured but no serious injuries have been reported. Along the coast, residents have described houses blown away and trees uprooted. About half the houses in Innisfail have been damaged, according to emergency services. Millions of dollars worth of sugar cane and banana crops have also been destroyed.

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The fact that meteorites from the Moon and Mars have landed on Earth confirms that impacts on solar system bodies can launch rocky debris to other planets. And previous studies have suggested that any life on the rocks could have survived the launch blast and the radiation and chill of the journey through space, assuming it lasted less than a few million years.

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The material, called QuikClot, which is issued routinely to police officers in Hillsborough county, Florida, was developed for the US military to cut down the number of soldiers who bleed to death on the battlefield. More than 85 per cent of soldiers killed in action die within an hour of being wounded. Improved haemorrhage control "could probably save 20 per cent of the soldiers who are killed in action", says Hasan Alam, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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This is a debate that will make plenty of money for Washington lobbyists for years to come. But there is less talk about another infrastructure issue that could also have a major effect on the Internet. This issue is whether the .com domain name will remain reliable and secure. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that manages the technical aspects of the Internet, has decided to allow the cost of .com domain names to increase by a little less than $2 over the next five years. The additional funds will allow more investment in managing and protecting the .com domain.

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"What adult insects want to do is basically reproduce and lay eggs. You would have to rewire the entire brain patterns." Dr McGavin said it appeared impossible to connect the technology to the right places during the metamorphic phase, particularly with regard to flight.

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CEOs from network owners AT&T and Verizon Communications have made comments suggesting they plan to create a system where some companies would have to pay more for their data-intensive use of the Net, which, they argue, slows access for regular customers. But for the most part, details of those plans are still unclear. On the other side of the debate are companies such as Google, eBay and Yahoo, which are against any companies taking on the role of "IP traffic gatekeeper." They support the idea of federal rules that would further restrict network owners from blocking or restricting traffic.

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He believes that capsaicin jump starts a pathway that triggers cell death. Molecular tests suggest that it achieves this by causing a cascade of events inside the cell that lead to the release of a protein complex called NF-kappa Beta, which subsequently causes the cell to self-destruct. This is crucial since cancer is characterised by the uncontrolled growth of cells.

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The new launch window runs from 1 to 19 July, meaning the team now has the time needed to replace the sensors and examine additional engineering concerns. "We wish it had worked out differently, but it's important, first and foremost, that we launch safely," Hale said. He remains optimistic that NASA will still manage to squeeze in three shuttle flights before the end of 2006. Those missions would include the upcoming STS-121 mission with Discovery, the STS-115 mission with Atlantis and STS-116, for which the orbiter used is yet to be decided.

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Last fall, MSN executive David Cole and his colleagues pitched CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates on the idea that the company could launch online services a whole lot faster than complicated software such as new operating systems. They presented their plan with many of the online services that have been introduced in recent months as part of Windows Live.

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The new planet was discovered by an alternative technique called microlensing which detects planets around much more distant stars. Microlensing can occur when one star passes directly in front of another, as seen from Earth. The gravity of the foreground star briefly magnifies the light of the background star, and if the foreground star has a planet in orbit around it, the planet can create a telltale brightness blip.

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To overcome this problem, Ellis-Behnke and colleagues from Hong Kong University and the Institute for Neuroscience in Xi’an, both in China, created a nerve-bridging scaffold, made up of nanoparticle fibres. They attempted to make these fibres the same size as the sugars and proteins on the surface of the torn axon, in the hope that this would encourage cell growth and migration.

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Representatives for eDonkey could not be reached for comment. But a BitTorrent spokeswoman extended an olive branch to the MPAA. "I think we can play in the sandbox together," said Lily Lin, director of communications for BitTorrent. "We're working with the MPAA about finding a model where consumers can get the digital content they want in a legalized way."

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"The bill would make it a crime to tell the American people that the president is breaking the law, and the bill could make it a crime for the newspapers to publish that fact," said Martin, a civil liberties advocate. DeWine is co-sponsoring the bill with Sens. Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. The White House and Republican Senate leaders have indicated general support, but the bill could face changes as it works its way through Congress.

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This allows information to escape from a black hole without any ambiguity about how to interpret it. The information escapes through a quantum process called entanglement, in which objects are not independent if they have interacted with each other or come into being through the same process. They become linked, or entangled, such that changing one invariably affects the other, no matter how far apart they are.

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One thing that puzzles scientists is that the high temperature was achieved after the plasma’s ions should have been losing energy and cooling. Also, when the high temperature was achieved, the Z machine was releasing more energy than was originally put in, something that usually occurs only in nuclear reactions.

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Fans will be able to buy the next month's series of 16 new episodes via Multi-Pass for $9.99, or to pay $1.99 per episode. Four episodes air each week and viewers can download each episode after it's been broadcast. TV shows and other video have been available for sale on iTunes since late last year. Comedy Central announced a relationship with iTunes six weeks ago with shows including "South Park," "Drawn Together" and "Comedy Central Stand-Up."

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To make the vaccine, PharmaFrontiers of Woodlands, Texas, takes blood from an MS patient and extracts a sample of these renegade cells. The cells are then multiplied and weakened with radiation before being re-injected into the patient, whose immune system will then recognise them as damaged and attack them, sometimes wiping them out completely, according to the results of earlier trials. The immune system will also attack healthy renegade cells, which have the same markers on their surface. In one trial of 15 people with MS the rate of new flare-ups was reduced by 92 per cent.

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The wind tunnel tests are using small-scale models of the crew capsule and launch vehicles. Following NASA Administrator Mike Griffin's announcement of the vehicles' basic architecture in September 2005, NASA released a "call for improvements" for the Crew Exploration Vehicle, a 5-metre-long crew capsule that Griffin has dubbed "Apollo on steroids".

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The panel does not rule out further research into new nuclear technologies and pursuing answers to the waste problem, as future technological developments may justify a re-examination of the issue. But the report concludes that Britain can meet its energy needs without nuclear power.

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In the new study, researchers specifically tested whether caffeine in coffee could promote heart problems by examining a gene called CYP1A2. The gene, which codes for an enzyme that helps to break down caffeine, comes in two flavours: one version, known as CYP1A2*1F, metabolizes caffeine more slowly than the other.