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[Interesting] Does Redskins Loss Portend Kerry Victory?
John Kerry supporters have a welcome omen for their candidate: The Green Bay Packers defeated the Washington Redskins on Sunday. Sony Blows Viral-Marketing Stunt
A clumsy, YouTube-centric campaign to promoted the flagging PSP platform fails. Or does it? In Game|Life. Fewer Calories Could Slow Alzheimer's
Restricting the diets of mice reduces the build-up of plaques in the brain that are linked to Alzheimer's disease, according to a USC study. With obese people generally considered to be at a higher risk for developing Alzheimer's, the research raises questions about whether the findings are potentially applicable to humans. The Mythical 40-Hour Gamer
Plenty of video games promise 40 hours of play, but who has the time? That's right, those hard-core, teenage players who occupy the other side of that raging demographic schism, that's who. Commentary by Clive Thompson. UCSD Biologists Identify Gene In Corn Plants That May Have Paved Way
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have identified a gene that appears to have been a critical trait in allowing the earliest plant breeders 7,000 years ago to transform teosinte, a wild grass that grows in the Mexican Sierra Madre, into maize, the world's third most planted crop after rice and wheat. Birds Learn To Fly With A Little Help From Their Ancestors
A researcher has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left behind by their ancestors. It is widely known that birds learn to fly through practice, gradually refining their innate ability into a finely tuned skill. However, according to a psychologist these skills may be easy to refine because of a genetically specified latent memory for flying. Omnifone Takes on IPhone, ITunes
A British mobile music company fields a music-to-go service for cell phones -- the first of many likely challenges to Apple's iPhone and iTunes Store. By the Associated Press. Researchers Make Advances In Attacking Leukemia Cells
Researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center reported new findings involving factors that can affect a novel class of antileukemic agents, termed histone deacetylase inhibitors, that could lead to an innovative form of combined treatment for leukemia. Now Scientists Think You'd Be 'Roasted' In A Black Hole
Contrary to established scientific thinking, you'd be roasted and not "spaghettified"if you stumbled into a supermassive black hole. New research being presented at the Institute of Physics conference Physics 2005 in Warwick will take a new look at the diet of the universe's most intriguing object, black holes. Tower Block to Follow the Light
Forget the 1-kilometer-high Burj Dubai: Live in a rotating skyscraper powered by the sun. World's largest gadget or crazed vomitorium? In Gear Factor.
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