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Gizmondo's Spectacular Crash Directors of the game device company went on living large long after their handheld flopped. Then a high-speed Ferrari accident blew their world to bits. By Randall Sullivan from Wired magazine. Even at sublethal levels, pesticides may slow the recovery of wild sal Biologists determined that short-term, seasonal exposure to pesticides in rivers and basins may limit the growth and size of wild salmon populations. In addition to the widespread deterioration of salmon habitats, these findings suggest that exposure to commonly used pesticides may further inhibit the recovery of threatened or endangered populations. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Information about NASA's summer 2005 mission to Mars that "will examine the red planet in unprecedented detail from low orbit"and "will examine Martian features ranging from the top of the atmosphere to underground layering."The mission's launch opportunity begins August 10, 2005. Includes news, fact sheets, and images, which will expand as the mission progresses. From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Just Breathe: Ozone Forecaster Unveiled, Available Via Web People with asthma or other respiratory problems can breathe a sigh of relief thanks to University of Houston professors who unveiled a forecasting system providing air quality data on ozone conditions. With the intent to increase public awareness and help Texas manage air quality issues, the UH Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies has been operating an air quality forecasting system for a year that has been tested, fine-tuned and now ready for public use. Wired Test 2007: Best of Test, Cine Sinners Beware of the Easy, Effici With Vudu, just grab the remote, select a movie, agree to the rental fee (from $1 to $4, billed to your credit card), and without further ado you're watching it in HD. Brain Imaging Suggests How Higher Education Helps To Buffer Older Adul College seems to pay off well into retirement. A new study from the University of Toronto sheds light on why higher education seems to buffer people from cognitive declines as they age. Brain imaging showed that in older adults taking memory tests, more years of education were associated with more active frontal lobes -- the opposite of what happened in young adults. New Drake Equation To Quantify Habitability? Researchers are laying the groundwork for a new equation that could mathematically quantify a habitat's potential for hosting life, in a similar way to how the Drake equation estimates the number of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way. Lech Walesa: Founder of Poland's Solidarity Trade Union A profile of the electrical engineer who led Solidarity, the first trade union in Eastern Europe independent of Communist rule. Walesa was later elected president of Poland. From CNN. Delving Deeper Into The Machinery Of Cocaine Addiction Researchers are now understanding in greater detail the molecular machinery underlying the short-term brain changes that produce the high of cocaine, as well as the longer-term changes behind addiction. Their findings offer hope for targeted drugs that can short-circuit that addiction machinery. Ancient And Bizarre Fish Discovered: New Species Of Ghostshark From Ca Scientists recently named a new species of chimaera, an ancient and bizarre group of fishes distantly related to sharks, from the coast of Southern California and Baja California, Mexico. The new species is the Eastern Pacific black ghostshark.
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