23rd May 2007
Children's museums are institutions that provide fun informal learning experiences for children. Traditional art and natural history museums typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits. Exhibits are designed to be viewed from a distance, and are ...
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22nd May 2007
Cellphones
Car phones were around in the 1970s, but it wasn't until 1983 that Motorola introduced the first widely available handheld cellphone, the DynaTAC 8000x.
Laptop computers
The 28-pound Compaq Portable - Compaq Computer's very first produc...
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21st May 2007
Genetics is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. Knowledge that desired characteristics were inherited has been implicitly used since prehistoric times for improving crop plants and animals through selective breeding. However, the mo...
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21st May 2007
Proper handling of the camera itself can reduce the number of retakes, helping to make your day easier by decreasing the number of times you need to repeat the dreaded "hold on, I need to take one more". Taking better quality pictures means taking fewer p...
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11th May 2007
Antimatter
Like Superman's alter-ego, Bizzaro, the particles making up normal matter also have their opposite versions. An electron has a negative charge, for example, but its anti-matter equivalent, the positron, is positive. Matter and anti-matter ann...
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10th May 2007
Karaoke pronounced [karaoke]; listen is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music on microphone. The music is typically of a well-known song in which the voice of the original singer is absent or reduced ...
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09th May 2007
NASA ASTRONOMERS, reported the biggest and brightest star explosion ever recorded a blast whose light began reaching Earth in the past year from 240 million light-years away.
The remnants of the explosion pose no threat to people or electronics, but ...
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08th May 2007
Microsoft has rolled out its new Windows Live Hotmail interface to all Hotmail users. Available in 36 languages, this is the most significant upgrade to MSN Hotmail since its debut in 1996.
Microsoft said the new service is a vast improvement over its...
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06th May 2007
Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of something. In biology, it collectively refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning), cells (cell cloning), or organisms. The term also encompasses situations, whereb...
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06th May 2007
Southwest Airlines, Inc.is a low fare airline based in Dallas, Texas. Southwest Air was founded in 1966 when a group of Texas investors, including Rollin King, M. Lamar Muse, and Herbert D. Kelleher, pooled $560,000 to form the Air Southwest Company.It is...
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03rd May 2007
IN BREAST cancer survivors, the Iyengar method of yoga not only promotes psychological well-being, but seems to offer immune system benefits as well, according to research reported at the American Physiological Society meeting in Washington, DC.
The Iye...
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30th April 2007
The alternative minimum tax (AMT) is an extra tax that certain taxpayers must pay in addition to their regular income tax. The purpose of the AMT is to prevent taxpayers with substantial income from using tax "loopholes" (such as certain exclusions, deduc...
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30th April 2007
Nintendo's Wii video game system (pronounced "we") is designed to attract people, regardless of their age or video game experience, to sit down and play together--whether they're in the same room or on different sides of the globe. The system's name refle...
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27th April 2007
A video game is a game that involves the interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Video games may have a reward systemâ€"such as a scoreâ€"that is based on accomplishment of tasks set within the game.
The "video"...
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26th April 2007
The first public "beta" release of Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Windows Server operating system, code-named Longhorn, is now widely available, the company said.
The Redmond-based company's last major overhaul to the server OS was in 2003.
Longh...
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