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NASA: Who Knows Where Satellite Landed?
(Newser) - NASA's just-crashed UARS satellite may have been the size of a bus and weighed 6 tons, but, because of its speed and uncertainty about the exact time it hit the Earth, scientists say they don't know exactly where their space junk crashed, reports the Chicago Tribune . "We... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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E=MC2: It Might Be Wrong
(Newser) - It's enough to make Einstein's hair stand up: Physicists at CERN think they've spotted neutrinos traveling faster than light, reports AP . According to Einstein's special theory of relativity—his E=MC2 equation—nothing should be able to go that fast. At Wired , Adrian Cho doesn't mince... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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New Radiation Pill Slams Cancer Cells
(Newser) - Doctors in London have stopped a cancer drug trial because it was so successful, the Telegraph reports. They said it would have been "unethical" to give any of the 922 participants a placebo for their prostate cancer. The drug in the trial targets tumors with alpha radiation, which the... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Pastry Chef Invents Dessert-Scented Perfume
(Newser) - A little cream, butter, and lemon sponge cake behind the ears may just give Calvin Klein a run for his money. For years, Spanish pastry chef Jordi Roca has been baking desserts that smell like perfumes; now he's bottling a spray that he uses to enrich citrus notes in... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Woman Dies After Lap-Band Procedure—5th So Far
(Newser) - Lap-Band surgery appears to have claimed another victim. A woman in Orange County, Calif., died earlier this month after undergoing the procedure, the fifth to expire since the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign started two years ago, the Los Angeles Times reports. Paula Rojeski, 55, was 5 foot 5 and weighed around... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Twitter Fights for 'Tweet' Trademark
(Newser) - The word "tweet" may be firmly established in the lexicon, but that doesn't mean Twitter owns the rights. In fact, the company has struck out twice trying to trademark the word because other web startups got there first, explains the Wall Street Journal . One, for example, is Twittad,... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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Self-Delusion Can Help You Win
(Newser) - Whether you’re looking to win on the battlefield or in the boardroom, overconfidence may be better for you than clear-eyed analysis of your chances, a study suggests. Researchers in Scotland and California created a mathematical model to compare different strategies: overconfident, under-confident, and accurate assessments of one’s chances... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Google Doodle Puppets Honor Jim Henson
(Newser) - A Google Doodle today pays homage to Muppets master Jim Henson, who would have been 75 today, notes the Huffington Post . You can manipulate the six digital puppets to do some tricks—the guy in red loses his glasses, and the one on the far right eats his neighbor. No... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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How to See Who Unfriended You on Facebook
(Newser) - Tech pundits are still debating how big Facebook's new Timeline features will be—blogger Dan Lyons is in the it's-overhyped camp—but BuzzFeed has stumbled onto one indisputable fact: Timeline makes it really easy to see who has unfriended you over the years. Click here for the four-step... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Arts & Living.
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UBS Chief Resigns After Trader's $2.3B Loss
(AP) - UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel has resigned over a $2.3 billion rogue trading loss . The bank said Gruebel's decision was an attempt to allow UBS to start afresh following the latest major scandal to hit Switzerland's biggest bank. Bank President Kaspar Villiger said the board tried to... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Scientists Recreate Movies From Brain Activity
(Newser) - Scientists at UC Berkeley have made a major advancement in the field of mind reading, reconstructing YouTube videos based on brain scans from people who’d seen them. Researchers would put subjects into an MRI machine and track their brain activity as they viewed videos. Once they’d build a... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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How Wendy's Reinvented Its Burgers
(Newser) - Wendy’s classic burger hasn’t changed for more than 40 years—but with sales struggling and new competitors emerging, the fast-food chain finally decided it was time for something new. To that end, it has created the new Dave’s Hot ‘n’ Juicy burger, named for the restaurant’... More » Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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