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Botnets: What They Are and How to Avoid Them

Last month, the head of an international securities fraud ring was sentenced to federal prison for manipulating stock prices by using botnets to distribute spam promoting those stocks.

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Highly preserved mammoth presents scientists with blood sample

An extremely well preserved woolly mammoth has been found by Russian scientists in Siberia, announced Wednesday.

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Data from NASA Rover's Voyage to Mars Aids Planning

This set of artist's concepts shows NASA's Mars Science Laboratory cruise capsule and NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is being built now at NASA's Johnson Space Center and will one day send astronauts...

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Google Launches Internet Balloons

Google scientists have launched up to 30 helium-filled test balloons into the skies above New Zealand, with the dream of bringing the Internet to nearly five billion people across the globe without...

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Home servers offer inexpensive cloud storage to consumers

Space Monkey is another alternative to energy-consuming data centers that replaces standalone hard-drives with inexpensive home cloud storage devices.

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NASA: Humans Could Visit Asteroid in 2021

The U.S. space agency says its proposed asteroid capture mission takes several of NASA's ongoing initiatives and aligns them for one major mission.

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Kerry Praises Genetically Modified Crops

The World Food Prize Foundation has announced that its prestigious prize this year goes to three scientists who helped advance the development of genetically modified crops. The announcement Wednesday...

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Google Street View Goes Way, Way Up

Google Street View allows anyone with an Internet connection to tour many parts of the globe virtually, and now you can even take a virtual tour of Dubai’s BurjKhalifa, the world’s tallest building.

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Solar-Powered Plane Completes Flight Over US

  A solar-powered aircraft has completed its history-making cross-country trip over the United States.The experimental Solar Impulse landed at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport

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NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet

    Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away.The planet is

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Researchers Record Iceberg Breaking Loud as an Earthquake

Humanmade sound in the world’s oceans, such as ship noise or seismic testing, may interfere with marine animals’ ability to use sound effectively for essential navigation and communication.

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Urine Could One Day Power Cell Phones

Dr. IoannisIeropoulos from the University of Bristol is an expert at harnessing power from unusual sources using microbial fuel cells.

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Keys duplicated from digital copies stored in the cloud

KeyMe is a kiosk that enables anyone to cut a new copy of their house key from a digital file stored in the cloud.

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Hamburger Grown in Laboratory

Today, scientists unveiled what they are calling the first hamburger to be made from meat produced in a laboratory instead of a cow.

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NASA's Space Launch System Program PDR: Answers to the Acronym

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Program recently completed its preliminary design review, commonly referred to as PDR. A quick inquiry of "What is PDR?" on a search engine pulls up everything from...

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Mummy Juanita – Inca Girl Frozen For 500 Years

Momia Juanita (Spanish for "Mummy Juanita"), also known as the Inca Ice Maiden and Lady of Ampato, is the well-preserved frozen body of an Inca girl who was killed as an offering to the Inca gods...

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Heliophysics Nugget: Mapping Tons of Meteoric Dust in the Sky

Larger meteoroids cause bright flashes of light when they hit Earth's atmosphere, such as this fireball caught during the Perseid meteor shower Aug. 12, 2006. The bulk of meteoric activity is much less...

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Surgical tool smokes out cancer: method sniffs for molecular sign of certain...

A new tool could tell surgeons within seconds whether they are slicing through cancerous or healthy tissue. The tool, which analyzes smoke produced by electric currents used to cut or destroy tissue,...

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Drone smartphone app to help heart attack victims in remote areas announced

German non-profit organization Definetz announced on Friday the development of the 'Defikopter': a medical drone, launched by smartphoneapp, designed to be able to fly defibrillators to heart attack...

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Android lock screen ads earn cash for consumers

Advertising space on smartphones has now become prime real estate, and a new startup called Locket is enabling consumers to sell their lock screens in order to earn some extra cash.

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