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Dec. 17, 1903: Bicycle Brothers Make Aeroplane Work Wright - 20 hours ago
The Wright brothers put all the pieces together: a heavier-than-air machine flying under its own...
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Seismic Convoy Explores What's Shaking America - yesterday
Some 400 mobile seismic stations inch eastward across North America, as the researchers behind the...
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Rebooting <cite>A Christmas Story</cite> - yesterday
The classic movie's air rifle and decoder ring were cool back in 1983, but they're quaint today....
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Darts for Geeks: Statistician Cracks the Game's Secrets - yesterday
Ryan Tibshirani was tired of losing at darts, so the Stanford statistics student put his math skills...
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Learn Something New: Take a Class Online - yesterday
The online classroom isn't the same one you remember from your flesh-and-blood college days. These...
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House Delays Patriot Act Spy Vote - yesterday
The House of Representatives is declining to take up legislation to refine the nation's spy laws...
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Upgrade Your Cable Provider's DVR - yesterday
Your cable provider's DVRs are cheap compared to the alternatives, but the low cost comes at the...
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Saving Earth From an Asteroid Will Take Diplomats, Not Heroes - yesterday
Saving Earth from an asteroid will take unprecedented international collaboration. Some methods of...
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Nook Enthusiasts Hack E-Reader to Run Pandora - yesterday
A few users have hacked Barnes & Noble's Nook e-book reader to run Pandora and other apps.
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Microsoft Settles EU Case, Must Offer IE Alternative - yesterday
Microsoft has to offer a choice of browsers to Europeans who use Windows or buy a new PC, thanks to...
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Smooth-Carving Snowboard Begs to Pulverize Powder - yesterday
Time to ditch that college era snowboard for something a bit more grownup and a lot more responsive....
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Name Earth's Not-So-Distant Cousin - yesterday
Astronomers have spotted the most Earth-like planet to date, but we think it needs a better name....
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Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Found Right Next Door - yesterday
Astronomers have discovered a hot, watery planet that is just six times bigger than Earth. And it's...
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Berlusconi Leaves Hospital After Attack - 11 hours ago
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, his face bandaged, has left a Milan hospital four days after...
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U.N. Officials Say American Aide Plotted to Replace Karzai - 17 hours ago
As fraud surfaced in the Afghan election, the No. 2 U.N. official in the country, Peter W. Galbraith...
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Pakistan Reported to Be Harassing U.S. Diplomats - 12 hours ago
In what U.S. officials describe as a concerted effort, frequent car searches and the denial of visas...
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Pakistan Strikes Down Amnesty for Politicians - 17 hours ago
The court ruling effectively restored corruption cases against thousands of politicians, including...
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Uneasy Engagement: China Hunts for Art Treasures in U.S. Museums - 12 hours ago
A delegation scoured the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week for objects looted in 1860 from a...
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Obama Interviewer in China Is Said to Be Demoted - 11 hours ago
The top editor of one of China’s most influential newspapers had annoyed Communist Party propaganda...
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Swiss Report First Appeals Filed in UBS Tax Case - 16 hours ago
Switzerland has received two appeals in the UBS tax case, a judicial official said, just weeks after...
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9/11 Families Press Judges on Sifting at Landfill - 17 hours ago
Some relatives want to see nearly one million tons of debris from the World Trade Center, now in a...
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Names of the Dead - 17 hours ago
The Department of Defense has identified 925 American service members who have died as a part of the...
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3 Journalists Kidnapped in Afghanistan Are Set Free - 17 hours ago
The newsmen, one of them Iraqi and two Afghan, were abducted in Afghanistan and freed after six days...
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At Kremlin, NATO’s Chief Seeks Military Help in Afghanistan - 17 hours ago
Russia would not immediately agree to Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s request that it provide more military...
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Man Arrested Trying to Enter Berlusconi’s Hospital Room - 17 hours ago
A man was arrested as he sought to enter Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s hospital room,...
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Iran Says It Tested Upgraded Missile - 17 hours ago
Iran’s announcement on Wednesday seemed to be aimed at discouraging a military attack on its nuclear...
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