Sun To Buy Swedish Software Firm For $1 Billion
Sun Microsystems, the large U.S. seller of open-source software, said it would buy MySQL, the world leader in open-source database software, for $1 billion....
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Personal Health: With Strokes, Knowledge Is A Lifesaver
A drug called t-PA can dissolve a brain-damaging blood clot, but only if it’s used in time....
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Leaping Borders, Stylistic And Global
Wednesday’s program at the Kosciuszko Foundation was led by Daniel Schnyder, whose style is rooted in the improvisatory give and take of jazz, tempered by a fascination with world music....
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Betting Site Chiefs In Line To Share £60m
THE directors of Betgenius.com, an online betting business, are in line to share a possible £60m fortune after kicking off a strategic review that could lead to the sale of their company....
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World Business Briefing: Japan: Unexpected Trade Surplus
Japan posted a trade surplus of 4.4 billion yen ($36.41 million) in January, reversing a deficit of 354 billion yen in the month a year earlier, government data showed. Analysts had expected a deficit...
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Science News

Quantum Teleporting, Yes; the Rest Is Movie Magic
2008-02-06 05:30 - A screening of the movie ?Jumper? at M.I.T. brought Hollywood and scientists together to discuss quantum physics and teleportation.

Pursuing Synthetic Life, Dazzled by Reality
2008-02-06 05:30 - The most profound insights to emerge from the pursuit of synthetic life just may be about real life.

An Altar Beyond Olympus for a Deity Predating Zeus
2008-02-06 05:30 - Archaeologists say they have found the ashes, bones and other evidence of animal sacrifices to some pre-Zeus deity on the summit of Mount Lykaion in Greece.

To Pull a Thorn From the Side of the Planet
2008-02-04 05:30 - Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people don?t eat them.

New Zealand: ?No Tears? Onions
2008-02-03 05:30 - A New Zealand concern called Crop and Food Research said on its Web site that it had created a tearless onion.

Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags
2008-02-03 05:30 - The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry groceries, encouraged by a 33-cent tax on plastic ones.

Peter Staudhammer, Who Designed NASA Instruments, Dies at 73
2008-02-02 05:30 - Peter Staudhammer, a wide-ranging aerospace engineer and executive, helped design instruments and engines used by NASA in landings on Mars and the Moon.

A Green Energy Industry Takes Root in California
2008-02-02 05:30 - Solar power is booming in California, the product of billions of dollars in investment and great enthusiasm.

Lasers Make Other Metals Look Like Gold
2008-02-02 05:30 - In a feat of optical alchemy, researchers have used ultrashort laser bursts to alter how metals absorb and reflect light, changing their appearance dramatically.

Pictures Reveal Mercury’s Tumultuous Past
2008-02-01 06:01 - The Messenger spacecraft that zipped past Mercury two weeks ago found more evidence of the innermost planet’s turbulent past.


 
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