Gaming
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Portaletture – Santa Ragione20 May 2012, 9:46 am
I can explain.Apparently, it’s an infotainment game that has been commissioned to Santa Ragione (Italian indie developer group which you may or may not know for Fotonica) by the Mondadori Foundation (which is surely linked to the eponymous Berlusconi-owned publisher, though I can’t figure how).The first level basically tells you that crime fiction in Italy is called “yellow” because it gained national acknowledgement due to the book series “Mondadori’s Yellows”, and makes you put i...
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The Elevator (Cyanide Tea)19 May 2012, 6:19 pm
The Elevator (Cyanide Tea)
Posted by Aquin
on May 19, 2012 Sometimes they talk, sometimes they spend the entire elevator ride in complete silence–but how will the relationship between these two people change? – [Author's description][Download for whatever]Games, Highly Recommended...
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Bomberball (Mathijs Roosen)19 May 2012, 1:34 pm
Bomberball (Mathijs Roosen)
Posted by Aquin
on May 19, 2012 Leave a comment (0)Go to commentsDefend your side of the stairs, and demolish your opponent’s side and cause him to fall into oblivion. – [Author's description][Download for Windows]Games← Recursion (The Village Blacksmith)...
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Strange Attractors 219 May 2012, 4:54 am
VideoStrange Attractors 2Strange Attractors 2 is a gravitation based two button arcade game about a wall bouncing ball. Press LMB to attract it toward flowing objects and press RMB to repel. Bounce around, collect stuff and reach the gate in each stage.Download (50 MB)The game was once sold commercially but RetroRemakes discovered recently that it is now available as freeware....
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Recursion (The Village Blacksmith)19 May 2012, 2:55 am
Recursion (The Village Blacksmith)
Posted by Aquin
on May 19, 2012 Stranded on an uncharted planet, our hero’s only hope is to wrap his mind around the way this new world works. – [Author's description][Play online (Flash)][Melee Man, Range Man]Games...
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Size Antimatters (Cale Bradbury)18 May 2012, 8:24 pm
Size Antimatters (Cale Bradbury)
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on May 19, 2012 Leave a comment (2)Go to commentsA local 1-4 player racing game where you try to get to the top the fastest. – [Author's description][Play online (Flash)]Games← 竹槍パンダ (Rebuild)...
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竹槍パンダ (Rebuild)18 May 2012, 12:49 pm
竹槍パンダ (Rebuild)
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on May 18, 2012 Leave a comment (0)Go to commentsパンダを逃がしましょう！ – [Author's description][Play online (Javascript)]Games← CUBE Mod [V.2] (E-40, Stewart Radzinsky, Lolman, Stephen Harrison)...
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Parameters18 May 2012, 12:47 pm
Type: Other Web-playableDeveloper: NekogamesPlay NowThe amazing thing about Parameters is that it works. By "works," I don't mean that it runs, but that it's surprisingly engaging, given its minimalist approach.It's a sort of RPG, with level-ups, attack, defense, and health stats, and a set of monsters to slay and missions to accomplish. But "missions" are small rectangles that gradually fill in as you click on them, spawning XP and money with each click; and "monsters" are other small rectangle...
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CUBE Mod [V.2] (E-40, Stewart Radzinsky, Lolman, Stephen Harrison)18 May 2012, 1:19 am
CUBE Mod [V.2] (E-40, Stewart Radzinsky, Lolman, Stephen Harrison)
Posted by Aquin
on May 18, 2012 In this strange Cube some gentlemen lost so they never were heard of again… One day they all were sacrificed in SARMA Cube, the deadly complex with strange aims. – [Author's description][Download for HL2:E2 (Steam)]Games, Highly Recommended...
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Game Scoop! Podcast: Episode 24618 May 2012, 4:35 pm
Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly show that attacks your funny bone for massive damage. Your guides this week will be Daemon Hatfield, Greg Miller, Anthony Gallegos, and Ryan Clements......
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Left 4 Dead 2 - Weapons Guide18 May 2012, 9:18 am
Left 4 Dead 2 Advanced Weapons Guide
by kratosorione | |Contact Author
L4D2 has been out for several years but for new players (or open-minded
veterans who enjoy reading about others' perspectives), this guide is meant to
give an overview of each weapon class/type and their relative pros/cons.......
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Left 4 Dead 2 - Weapons Guide18 May 2012, 9:16 am
Left 4 Dead 2 Advanced Weapons Guide
by kratosorione | |Contact Author
L4D2 has been out for several years but for new players (or open-minded
veterans who enjoy reading about others' perspectives), this guide is meant to
give an overview of each weapon class/type and their relative pros/cons.......
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Japan Pro Golf Tour 64 - Walkthrough18 May 2012, 8:59 am
Japan Pro Golf Tour 64, Walkthrough and Translation by "Teary Eyes" Anderson.
This walkthrough, translation is not endorsed or sponsored by Nintendo, Media
Factory, or Seta. Use at your own risk......
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IGN UK Podcast #137: Break a Leg!18 May 2012, 8:30 am
What a week! We've been blown away by Max Payne, played Dragon's Dogma to death and put bullets through the bad guys in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, but nothing could've prepared us for Krupa taking one for the team and breaking his leg in two places. True, it's feels a bit extreme to bust limbs jus......
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The Last of Us Podcast17 May 2012, 8:05 pm
Enter Podcast Beyond, your link to the IGN PlayStation crew that pushes news, opinions and utter hilarity straight to your ears (and subsequently, your brain)......
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Diablo 3's Best Error 37 Jokes16 May 2012, 1:30 pm
Chances are good you picked up a copy of Blizzard's latest productivity-killer, Diablo 3. Chances are even better you've resisted the urge of throwing your mouse out the window upon seeing the dreaded "Error 37" message. And who can blame you? Many have waited 12 years to click the hours away, and n......
Gadgets
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NVIDIA outs budget GeForce GT 610, GT 620 and GT 630, no Kepler in any of 'em20 May 2012, 2:15 pm
Look out, savvy graphics card buyer: just because it's labelled 'GeForce' and starts with a '6' doesn't necessarily mean it benefits from NVIDIA's premium 28nm Kepler architecture. We've already seen rebadged mobile chips with last-gen 40nm silicon, and now entry-level desktop cards are arriving on shelves that will stretch Fermi's expiry date even further. There are no price tags as yet, but according to AnandTech the 'new' GeForce GT 610 is a repackaged GT 520 with 48 CUDA cores and an ever-...
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Samsung chief: we're open to a cross-licensing deal with Apple, but 4G chip shortage might last until the fall20 May 2012, 12:02 pm
The at times very heated legal battle between Apple and Samsung might be softening just a bit ahead of truce talks on May 21st. Samsung's mobile head JK Shin just left Seoul for the mediated discussions saying there were still "several negotiation options" on tap, including the possibility of cross-licensing patents. He warned that there was still a "big gap" between the two sides, and we'd tend to agree -- neither Apple nor Samsung is exactly backing off just yet. However, it's a definite shi...
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Kudo Tsunoda: 'Waiting for the next big thing isn't about waiting for the Kinect 2'20 May 2012, 9:54 am
Last summer, try as we might, we couldn't get too much out of Microsoft's creative director for Kinect Games, Kudo Tsunoda, about what's next from the interactive peripheral. More recently, in an interview with Venture Beat, Tsunoda was a little more verbose about what he thinks the next big thing in Kinect is -- and it isn't a Kinect 2. The good news is, he believes that no new hardware will be required, and the innovations will likely come from developers, as they better understand and utiliz...
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Fisker leak shows Atlantic production delayed to mid-2014, 0-60 in 6.5 seconds20 May 2012, 8:06 am
Our hopes of taking the Fisker Atlantic for a spin next year just got dampened considerably: a big document leak has revealed that the more reasonably-priced alternative to the Karma won't be rolling off the production lines en masse until mid-2014, a year later than we'd expected. Thanks in part to a factory overhaul, the only Atlantics rolling on their hybrid-powered wheels in mid-2013 will be prototypes. On the upside, we've learned more about the car itself, including a fairly brisk 0-60 t...
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Researchers develop silicon ReRAM chip, send warning shot to Flash memory20 May 2012, 5:54 am
Does the word ReRAM ring a bell? No? Well, the key point is that it's much faster than NAND memory, and it's making its way into chips from Elpida, Sharp and Panasonic. Further proof that ReRAM is on the up and up? Researchers at University College London have used this technology to make a chip that operates at 100 times the speed of standard Flash memory. The device is composed completely of silicon oxide, which improves the chip's resistance, and it doesn't require a vacuum to work (which m...
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Nokia uses Lumia 900 as a hammer in a torture test, makes us wince (video)20 May 2012, 3:48 am
As much as we're familiar with mobile device torture tests, they're normally inflicted by us or otherwise not-so-voluntary. Nokia, however, has stepped up to the plate and doled out the abuse to the Lumia 900 itself with a hammer and nail, all based on a wager that the Windows Phone's use of Gorilla Glass would hold up to Sonim-level punishment. The company's Chris Ruble and Mike Meyers (not that Mike Myers) used a Lumia 710 as a dry run before an on-camera demo that not only saw the 900 assau...
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Alternative Wii U controller design makes brief appearance on Twitter, goes into hiding20 May 2012, 1:25 am
Excited for Nintendo's new tablet-esque controller? So are the kids in TT Games' QA department. An over-excited tester tweeted out an image of a slightly different Wii U slab than the one we laid hands on at E3 2011, teasing "look we what we have at work!" Answering the call does indeed reveal something worth looking at -- a somewhat wider looking Wii U slate featuring two full-sized analog sticks (as opposed to 3DS-like circle pads), a pair of unmarked button-like squares, and a new starboard...
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Neuroscientists develop game for stroke rehabilitation, give the Wii a run for its money19 May 2012, 11:56 pm
Think the Wii has the market cornered on gaming rehab? Think again -- neuroscientists at Newcastle University are developing a series of motion controlled video games to make stroke rehab more fun and accessible. The team's first title, dubbed Circus Challenge, lets patients digitally throw pies, tame lions and juggle to help them build strength and regain motor skills. As players progress, the game ratchets up its difficulty, presumably to match pace with their recovery. Although Limbs Alive,...
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Ask Engadget: Electric commuting on the cheap?19 May 2012, 9:44 pm
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from is from Warren, who wants to find an electrical moped within his budget. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com. "What's the cheapest two-wheeled electric vehicle that goes over 45mph available in the US? I looked at the Gas-powered $2,500 Sym Symba, but as far as I can tell, I'...
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Adorable Nine-Year-Old Girl Reviews Her School Lunches on Her Blog [Food]20 May 2012, 3:00 pm
At only nine-years-old, Martha Payne might be the next great food critic. The adorable girl from Argyll in Scotland reviews her daily school lunches on her blog with a Food-o-meter rating scale, considerations for hair and pictures galore. More »
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Watch the SpaceX Falcon 9 Undergo Performance Anxiety With the Whole World Watching [Video]20 May 2012, 2:00 pm
They say the first time never lasts as long as you'd want. Yesterday's failed SpaceX Falcon 9 launch is no exception. Watch the rocket tremble with anticipation and light its load, only to have its performance cut short at the last second. It's okay, Falcon, we've all been there. [AP YouTube via The Atlantic] More »
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What Kind of Geek Are You? [Geek]20 May 2012, 12:00 pm
If you're reading this website, you're very probably some sort of geek. Which is totally not a bad thing! The question is, of course, what kind of geek are you? A gadget geek? An Internet geek? Perhaps an Apple Fanboy Geek? Check out this infographic to find out. More »
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Very NSFW: What Happens When You Visit an Internet Stranger Who Wants to Drink Your Pee? [Nsfw]20 May 2012, 11:15 am
When last we spent some video time with Vice's interent love pioneer Karley "Slutever" Sciortino, she had hopped over to London to meet her anonymous online sex slave. But while in the neighborhood, why not meet up with one more? More »
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A Historically Awesome Gaming Setup with Every Console in Existence [Video]20 May 2012, 10:00 am
This might not be the best gaming setup ever but it's easily the most historically awesome. Like a Hall of Fame for video games, Pete's (or 16bitghost's) gaming setup is a video game shrine. It has nearly every console you could ever think of in its TV stand. More »
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The Pixar Avengers Looks Like the Best Pixar Movie Ever [Art]20 May 2012, 9:11 am
Sulley as the Hulk and the Incredibles as Captain America and Black Widow? Wonderful. But seriously, mashing up Pixar characters with The Avengers is beautiful. J. M. Walter created this Pixar/Avengers combo and I've decided that it'd be the funnest superhero movie ever. Or best cartoon I've ever seen. [Cartoon Brew via Buzzfeed] More »
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Zuckerberg Just Got Married [Facebook]19 May 2012, 8:24 pm
Mark "IPO" Zuckerberg just dropped a Facebook status update bigger than the NASDAQ bomb: he and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan are married, only a day after he became one of the richest men on the planet. He wore a suit! More »
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A Sofa That Encourages You To Lose Things Between the Cushions [Wish You Were Here]19 May 2012, 8:00 pm
Even though the cushions on your couch can be a black hole for everything from pocket change to the TV remote, they're also a handy place to quickly hide stuff when company visits. And it's that exact idea that inspired Jess Fügler's Jam Sofa. More »
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You Did What? Idiots Teach Robots How To Build Their Own Tools [Video]19 May 2012, 7:00 pm
Well, this is just fantastic. We're all for the advancement of robot technology so that one day they can cater to our every beck and call. But researchers at ETH Zurich have foolishly designed a robot that can create its own custom tools to complete tasks. More »
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Science
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Good news for nanomedicine: Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates20 May 2012, 12:39 pm
A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to battle diseases like cancer through nanomedicine....
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First, do no harm: Danger in standard treatment for a serious lung disease20 May 2012, 12:38 pm
A combination of three drugs used worldwide as the standard of care for a serious lung disease puts patients in danger of death or hospitalization, and should not be used together to treat the disease, called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to the surprising results of a rigorous independent study. The findings show the importance of testing treatments that doctors give for any condition -- to see if they truly help, and don't harm, patients....
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Prenatal pollution exposure dangerous for children with asthma20 May 2012, 12:36 pm
The link between prenatal exposure to air pollution and childhood lung growth and respiratory ailments is well established, and now a new study suggests that these prenatal exposures can be especially serious for children with asthma....
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Children Exposed to Smoking Face Long-Term Respiratory Risks20 May 2012, 12:36 pm
A new study shows that the health risks associated with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among children whose parents smoke persist well beyond childhood, independent of whether or not they end up becoming smokers....
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Treatment of childhood OSA reverses brain abnormalities20 May 2012, 12:36 pm
Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children normalizes disturbances in the neuronal network responsible for attention and executive function, according to a new study....
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Songbirds' learning hub in brain offers insight into motor control20 May 2012, 12:35 pm
To learn its signature melody, the male songbird uses a trial-and-error process to mimic the song of its father, singing the tune over and over again, hundreds of times a day, making subtle changes in the pitch of the notes. To accomplish this feat, the Bengalese finch's brain must receive and process large quantities of information about its performance and use that data to precisely control the complex vocal actions that allow it to modify the pitch and pattern of its song. Now, scientists hav...
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Experimental bariatric surgery controls blood sugar in rodents with diabetes via novel sensing signals in gut20 May 2012, 12:35 pm
For the first time, scientists have shown that an experimental bariatric surgery can lower blood sugar levels in rats with type 1 diabetes....
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Arthritis drug effective against global parasite, study suggests20 May 2012, 12:35 pm
Medical researchers have identified an approved arthritis drug that is effective against amoebas in lab and animal studies, suggesting it could offer a low-dose, low cost treatment for the amoebic infections that cause human dysentery throughout the world....
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Drug found for parasite that is major cause of death worldwide20 May 2012, 12:35 pm
An existing drug has been found to be effective against Entamoeba histolytica. This parasite causes amebic dysentery and liver abscesses and results in the death of more than 70,000 people worldwide each year....
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Stuxnet-Like Viruses Remain a Top U.S. Security Risk18 May 2012, 10:45 am
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure, there was no known physical damage. But security experts worry it may only be a matter of time. [More]
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Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produces Pain-Killing Compounds17 May 2012, 3:00 pm
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Coyotes Are the New Top Dogs17 May 2012, 10:30 am
By Sharon Levy of Nature magazine [More]
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Self-Worth Shattering: A Single Bomb Blast Can Saddle Soldiers with Debilitating Brain Trauma16 May 2012, 2:40 pm
The stress and suffering of combat are known to leave a lasting impact on military veterans, in some cases triggering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) . Researchers have now found an even more serious and debilitating mental condition, known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) , in veterans, particularly those injured by the concussive force of bomb blasts. [More]
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Track Record: Do Major Urban Subway Networks Evolve along Similar Patterns?15 May 2012, 8:15 pm
No two subway systems have the same design. New York City’s haphazard rail system differs markedly from the highly organized Moscow Metro (above), or the tangled spaghetti of Tokyo ’s subway network. Each system’s design is the result of many factors, including local geography, the city’s layout and traffic distribution, politics, culture and degree of urban planning. [More]
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Not-So-Quick Fix: ADHD Behavioral Therapy May Be More Effective Than Drugs in Long Run15 May 2012, 6:30 am
Before stimulant drugs such as Ritalin, Concerta and Adderall began their rise to popularity in the 1970s, treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) focused on behavioral therapy. But as concerns build over the mounting dosages and extended treatment periods that come with stimulant drugs, clinical researchers are revisiting behavioral therapy techniques. Whereas stimulant medications may help young patients focus and behave in the classroom, research now suggests that behavi...
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In Search of the Best (Energy) Ideas: A Q&A with ARPA-E's Arun Majumdar10 May 2012, 8:01 pm
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA–E) works on a three-year cycle: Funded projects have three years to prove worthy--or not. Program directors who help fund projects such as Plants Engineered to Replace Petroleum ( PETRO ) or Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation ( BEEST ) have three years to steer the research. And, after three years at the helm as the founding director of ARPA–E, mechanical engineer Arun Majumdar has announced that he wil...
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Ancient Time: Earliest Mayan Astronomical Calendar Unearthed in Guatemala Ruins10 May 2012, 2:01 pm
An excavation of an archaeological site in Guatemala has uncovered Mayan astronomical records dating to the ninth century A.D. The tabulated numbers, which predate existing Mayan astronomical documents by several hundred years, chart the motion of the moon and also seem to relate to the orbits of Mars and Venus. (And good news: they do not predict the world will end this year --in fact, some of the numbers appear to refer to dates far in the future.) [More]
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Climate Forecasting: A Break in the Clouds10 May 2012, 11:15 am
By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine [More]
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Italy Earthquake Leaves Six Dead, 50 Hurt20 May 2012, 5:40 am
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook Italy's populated northeast early Sunday, felling homes and church steeples around the historic city of Ferrara....
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Will You See Today's Annular Solar Eclipse?20 May 2012, 4:51 am
Just in case you haven't heard, an annular eclipse will dazzle the Pacific Ocean on Sunday....
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Troubled Freighter Drifts Toward Great Barrier Reef19 May 2012, 7:36 am
A broken-down cargo ship was drifting towards Australia's Great Barrier Reef Saturday, with fears of major damage if it were to run aground at the World Heritage-listed site....
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Tyrannosaur Skeleton For Sale, But Ownership Is Questioned19 May 2012, 7:03 am
Mongolia is raising concerns that a rare Tyrannosaur specimen now on auction in New York City may have left the country illegally....
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Tiny Deep-Sea Life Eats Dinosaur-Era Meals19 May 2012, 5:53 am
Deep ocean microorganisms are subsisting on nutrients first laid down when dinosaurs still walked the Earth....
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SpaceX Launch Cut Off At Last Second19 May 2012, 5:06 am
It's 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning and there’s just been what is truly a heart-stopping moment in the launch business -- a last-second launch abort....
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SpaceX Launch Scrub Delays Space Station Mission19 May 2012, 4:38 am
The Falcon 9 rocket ran into a technical issue that aborted the launch just as the engines ignited....
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Verizon May Not Kill Unlimited Data Plans18 May 2012, 11:48 pm
The wireless phone company says that it will share details of their data plans well in advance of any introductions....
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TWiDN: Breast-feeding Controversy & Vicious Pit Bulls18 May 2012, 10:47 pm
Are pit bulls as dangerous as the state of Maryland thinks they are? How long should women breast-feed? Did the Mayan culture actually predict doomsday? Find out the answers in This Week in Discovery News....
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