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Hi: Any great new science news sites will be welcome.
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Oldest Bird Was Actually a Dinosaur : Discovery News
Archaeopteryx , widely regarded as being the world's oldest known bird, has just been knocked off its scientific perch, since new research concludes this feathered animal was, in fact, a dinosaur. The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Nature , falls on the 150th anniversary of Archaeopteryx's discovery.Over the weekend, the New York Times’ Matthew Wald reported that we're running out of helium-3, a rare but useful helium isotope, thanks to a bit of bureaucratic blundering: The United States is running out of a rare gas that is crucial for detecting smuggled nuclear weapons materials because one arm of the Energy Department was selling the gas six times as fast as another arm could accumulate it, and the two sides failed to communicate for years, according to a new Congressional audit.
America's looming helium crisis (no, really) - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
The START Natural Language Question Answering System
START, the world's first Web-based question answering system, has been on-line and continuously operating since December, 1993.
Justin - Humanoid Robot Catches with Two Hands
Justin The development of humanoid robots has made significant progress in recent years.Encyclopedia of Life
:) I can barely keep up with the few pearl sections that I have now. Music expands rapidly. So does the Science and How To sections. Then there are the other sections I haven't had time to get back to in awhile. Happy Pearling L8trs by Jul 25
Interesting though:) Happy Pearling L8trs by Jul 22
It wasn't that long ago that we had a future. I mean, we have one now; the world isn't going to crash into the Sun or anything like that.
Tales of Future Past
Please do not get the impression that I am using the popular media trend of fear-mongering to try and rally you into a global fight against the evils of technology. I will probably take a nap after this.
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