Robot Jumps, Tumbles, Rolls: "A robot built to explore disaster sites uses an unusual mode of transportation to traverse rubble: it jumps, tumbles and rolls."

Videos.

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Mystery Woodpecker Upends a Bird Lover's Life: "In the church of birds, where passions run high and prophets emerge from swamps and thickets with revelations, nothing can ruin a reputation like admitting that you have seen an ivory-billed woodpecker."

NYT article on the ivory-billed woodpecker.

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Kidnapped girl 'rescued' by lions: A pride of lions has rescued a girl from her kidnappers in rural south-west Ethiopia, according to police.

"They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest," the policeman said.

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Is it time to revamp the periodic table? Oxford ecologist Philip Stewart has designed a new periodic table of the elements, and it's a hit. American schools are placing orders daily for Stewart's table, and the Royal Society of Chemists recently sent a copy to every British secondary school. Stewart's is the only remake to achieve widespread adoption since Dmitri Mendeleev invented the original periodic table in a fit of brilliance in 1869.



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Book Radio: "Each page of the “book radio” represents a frequency. The user flips pages to scan the frequency spectrum; opens to a specific page to listen to a station; places the bookmark on a desired page to listen and store the station; and slides the bookmark up or down to control the volume. In addition, the "book radio" inherits other qualities of a book. The user can scribble in it, place stickers or take notes while listening."

posted by Amit at 6:13 AM Comment (0)

Nice view of Hurricane Emily with the moon in the background. The eye of the hurricane appears as a depression in the cloud deck.



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Beautiful Mummy' Emerges from Sand: Egyptian archaeologists digging near the Saqqara pyramids, 15 miles south of Cairo, have discovered what may be 'the most beautiful mummy ever found in Egypt'.

Dating from about 2,600 years ago, the mummy was unearthed two weeks ago, buried in a wooden sarcophagus beneath 20 feet of sand in the necropolis of King Teti, who ruled Egypt more than 4,300 years ago.



(Forwarded by Farah)

-K

posted by Kaushik at 12:58 PM Comment (0)

Questions for the next 25 years: In a special collection of articles published beginning 1 July 2005, Science Magazine and its online companion sites celebrate the journal's 125th anniversary with a look forward -- at the most compelling puzzles and questions facing scientists today. A special, free news feature in Science explores 125 big questions that face scientific inquiry over the next quarter-century.

The Web page has only the top 25 questions, but there's an essay for each of them so it makes for interesting reading.

-K

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Man charged with stealing Wi-Fi signal: "Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon, who had noticed Smith sitting in an SUV outside Dinon's house using a laptop computer."

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