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Worms Do Calculus to Find Food
Jul 24 2008, Brittany

Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. And now, researchers may have found how a worm’s brain does this: It performs calculus.

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iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak and Unlock Now for Windows
Adam, San Diego
The Windows version of Pwnage, the iPhone 2.0 jailbreak and unlock software for iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch, is out now.
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Environmental Threats of the Future Nano-Materials, Man-made Viruses Biomimetic Robots
Tomas, Atlanta
Forget about rising global water levels: Researchers, policymakers and environmental campaigners have identified 25 potential future threats to the environment...
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Microsoft looks to Mojave to revive Vistas image
Shane, Kansas City
After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista’s skeptics.
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Mystery of the Earths Polar Caps 41 Million Years Ago
Ranulfo, Brooklyn
For most of our planet’s history until fairly recently, the overall pattern has been for the Earth to be hot, with no permanent ice to be found anywhere.
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HighStakes Race to Unlock a Wider Web
Ranulfo, Brooklyn
The nation’s top technology companies have spent millions of dollars and nearly two years building devices,
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Little b can penetrate the minds of cells
Jaiyant Cavale, Bangalore
A new computational language, which can describe biology like a biologist, has been developed by Jeremy Gunawardena, director of the Virtual Cell Program in Harvard...
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A Unique Solar Powered Community in Canada
Shelly, New York City
The Drake Landing Solar Community is the first solar powered community of North America. Located in the town of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, the project sets a wonderful...
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Italian media says Google video probe ends
AP, Rome
Italian prosecutors have ended their investigation of four Google Inc. executives over a video uploaded onto Google’s Italian site that showed a disabled youth...
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AOL shutting 3 services to cut costs, focus on ads
AP, New York
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"Spam King" Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
Brittany, Ca
A convicted spammer fatally shot his wife and young daughter in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday while being sought after escaping prison last weekend, authorities...
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Sector Snap: Handsets up
AP, New York
Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and other handset makers rose along with the broader market Friday following Samsung Electronics’ report that its mobile phone sales...
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Taijia claims to be on top with its Lok PSP-860S Gaming PMP
Desh, Shimla
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CBC's Drive Recorder sees everything, inside and outside as well
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DC Universe Online announced at Comic-Con
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Desh, Shimla
Now you need not worry where to park your car while in San Francisco. I mean, it would be extremely convenient to find an empty slot without caring in the least about...
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Former Adobe CEO Chizen named to Oracle board
AP, Redwood Shores
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Researchers Find Ancient Evidence of Snowball Earth
Tomas, Atlanta
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AP, San Diego
Researchers plan to create a library of human genetics, with entries on the workings of individual genes, and make it available for anyone in Wikipedia rather than in...
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Mili, Las Vegas
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New clue to Alzheimer's found
Tricia, Washington
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New clue to Alzheimer's found
AP, Washington
Researchers have uncovered a new clue to the cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
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