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Google Book Search is a plagiarist's nightmare
"For any plagiarist living in an age of search engines, waving a loaded book in front of reviewers has become the literary equivalent of suicide by cop." This is going to get very messy overDiscovery could lead to mining of solid gas for fuel
"The discovery of a mysterious solid form of natural gas off the east coast of Canada could bring one of Earth's biggest untapped sources of energy a step closer to commercial use, according to sAn Exotic Find in the Interstellar Medium
"The molecule in question is called C6H-, described as a chain of six carbon atoms with one hydrogen atom at the end and an extra electron."Teams Explore Roots of Angkor Civilization
"Five seasons of excavations at Ban Non Wat, in Northeast Thailand, have unearthed 470 human burials covering a time span of more than 2,000 years. Earthwatch-supported research [...] gives cluesRobot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury
"Instead of giving the robot a rigid set of instructions, the researchers let it discover its own nature and work out how to control itself [...] The ability to build this "self-model"20 New Nearby Stars Discovered
"...since the year 2000, the population of known stars within 10 parsecs (roughly 33 light years) of the Sun has grown by 16 percent." Commentary from Centauri Dreams.New particles turn up in the US
"Physicists [...] at Fermilab near Chicago have discovered two new particles, called sigma-b baryons. The particles are the heaviest baryons ever discovered and weigh about 5.8 GeV, or around sixLost Moon landing tapes discovered
"They were nearly thrown out with the rubbish. But a last minute search instead has scientists in Western Australia dusting off several boxes of 'lost' NASA tapes which record surface conditionsNASA Approves Mission and Names Crew for Return to Hubble
"Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013." Makes economic seUniversity Study Reveals Rich Data on Bloglines Feeds
"Feeds That Matter is a fascinating new analysis project out of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and a terrific way to find new RSS feeds to subscribe to." Coukl be worthMonolith perhaps largest found in Mexico
"Archaeologists announced Friday that a monolith discovered Oct. 2 near Mexico City's main square is perhaps the largest ever found in the city's center ...[it] is rectangular and measures nearlyCombing the Cosmos at High Speed: The Allen Telescope Array
"SETI is akin to discovery science, despite its ... presumption that the extraterrestrials exist, because that hypothesis is not falsifiable. A failure to receive a [signal] from space doesn’t saScientists in celebratory mood
"Scientists ... at the ... Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today that they have met the exacting standard to claim discovery of astonishingly rapid transitions between matter andSoftware learns new words from Wikipedia - tech - 04 September 2006 - New Scientist Tech
"A program that works out the meaning of newly coined words using the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia could help machines understand the slang used in blogs and other informal texts, say researcheBeaming Up Archimedes Hidden Text
Only copies of Greek philosopher's lost works, once scrubbed away and written over with prayers, are now being recovered with X-ray scanning. There's some nice symbolism thereAn Updated Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets
We've got nearly a hundred of the things logged now, and the data is improving the longer we watch.Backyard Approach Finds Extrasolar Planet
Score one for the amateurs and lo-fi freaksFeedMeme.com: Fun with Feeds (Atom, RSS and RDF) for You and I
Searching for feeds by keywords can often be an unsuccesful process because of the broad vocabulary in use. Instead of a single keyword search, Feed Meme offers a multi-word macro search.RADIO.BLOG.CLUB
Radio.Blog is a web-based flash application which dynamically creates a playlist of audio files to be heard by a website's visitors. It is a standalone application, requiring the visitor only to havepurevolume™ | We're Listening To You
Music sharing and discovery. Artists can post songs, shows, photos, blogs and communicate with fans, while listeners find new music through friends, find shows, keep track of favorite artists. URL
