Barbadians slam discovery, naming of tiny snake

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The world's tiniest snake is shown curled up on a U.S. quarter. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A small snake has sparked a big debate in Barbados. Residents of the wealthy Caribbean nation have been heating up blogs and clogging radio airwaves to vent their anger at a U.S. scientist, who earlier this week announced his "discovery" of the world's smallest snake and named it "Leptotyphlops carlae... Submitted by: worlddom | Visited 9 times | Comments 0

♦ Barbadians Angry Over Tiny Snake

1 vote	Image Caption: The snake named Leptotyphlops carlae, as thin as a spaghetti noodle, is resting on a US quarter. Blair Hedges, professor of biology at Penn State University, discovered the species and determined that it is the smallest of the more than 3,100 known snake species. Credit: Blair Hedges... Submitted by: SecureWebDev - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Coldplay Slam Plagiarism Claims.

1 vote	Coldplay Slam Plagiarism Claims.... British rockers Coldplay have denied reports they plagiarised the music of an American band for their new album Viva La Vida. Submitted by: Tox - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Metal Gear Solid 4 has a few words for Blu-ray

1 vote	Otacon: Hold it, Snake. Time to change the disc. I know, I know... It's a pain. But you need to swap Disc 1 for Disc 2. You see the disc labeled "2"? Snake: Uhhhh. No. Snake: Damn it, Otacon, get a grip! Otacon: Yeah, what an age we live in, huh, Snake? Submitted by: Mental Merlin - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ The Morning After: Discovery Home Gets Ready to Die

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In six days, Discovery Home ceases to exist, or, to put it more positively, is reborn as Discovery's enviro-themed Planet Green channel. It's a little sad. I always had a soft spot for Discovery Home; for one thing, it was the home to the now-defunct Cookin' in Brooklyn, restaurateur Alan Harding's offbeat food show based in my home borough. Still, I can see why the channel didn't last. Submitted by: mariasabetodo - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Discovery crew says 'sayonara' to space station

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HOUSTON — Space shuttle Discovery prepared to bid goodbye to the International Space Station on Wednesday. But saying "sayonara" might also be appropriate. Discovery was scheduled to pull away from the space station on Wednesday morning, ending a nine-day visit that was highlighted by the installation of a new Japanese lab. The shuttle and its crew of seven, including a Japanese astronaut... Submitted by: Aemc310 - Visited 11 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Space Shuttle Discovery ready to do heavy lifting Saturday

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In a way, space shuttle Discovery is a delivery truck carrying one of the heaviest, and widest, loads yet to the International Space Station. Getting the 37-foot by 15-foot, 32,500-pound Kibo module into orbit will require 8.5 minutes of heavy lifting. NASA hopes to start the job at 5:02 p.m. today with the firing of the space shuttle main engines and solid rocket boosters to launch Discovery... Submitted by: Harald Johnsen - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Among the clouds: CherryPal offers unbelievably tiny desktop

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Laptops and subnotebooks compete on weight and power consumption, but desktops join that fray only rarely, and pretty much never come out on top. A new, tiny desktop computer from a startup company will do exactly that. The CherryPal company's only product is the CherryPal desktop, a tiny device with a Freescale embedded processor that runs a stripped-down linux variant... Submitted by: Alneo - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ BrickArms supplies weapons for LEGO soldiers

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If there's a problem with LEGO, it's that they simply aren't violent enough. Sure, you might get some swords or a gun or two in different sets, but not nearly enough to wage a genuine LEGO war. That puny plastic revolver and handful of tiny swords just aren't going to cut it for your army of tiny plastic soldiers. Gadgetell has discovered BrickArms, a company that makes tiny... Submitted by: bestija - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ 'When We Left Earth' series to take off on Discovery Channel

1 vote	(Credit: Discovery)NEW YORK--On Tuesday night, the Discovery Channel hosted a few hundred guests at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium for a preview of When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions ... Submitted by: DBrow - Visited 0 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Discovery crew says 'sayonara' to space station

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HOUSTON — Space shuttle Discovery prepared to bid goodbye to the International Space Station on Wednesday. But saying "sayonara" might also be appropriate. Discovery was scheduled to pull away from the space station on Wednesday morning, ending a nine-day visit that was highlighted by the installation of a new Japanese lab. The shuttle and its crew of seven, including a Japanese astronaut... Submitted by: mosa - Visited 18 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Snake toilet

1 vote	A British woman has horrified when she found a 4ft snake in her toilet bowl. Kay Robins saw the yellow and black Californian King Snake peering over the seat so locked herself in the bathroom so it could not hurt her three-month-old daughter Summer sleeping next door. Submitted by: Cashable - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Space Shuttle Discovery ready to do heavy lifting Saturday

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In a way, space shuttle Discovery is a delivery truck carrying one of the heaviest, and widest, loads yet to the International Space Station. Getting the 37-foot by 15-foot, 32,500-pound Kibo module into orbit will require 8.5 minutes of heavy lifting. NASA hopes to start the job at 5:02 p.m. Saturday with the firing of the space shuttle main engines and solid rocket boosters to launch Discovery... Submitted by: iatbm - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Bennett ruled out of Wales tour

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Huw Bennett has added to coach Warren Gatland's injury crisis for Wales' summer tour to South Africa. The Grand Slam-winning hooker has withdrawn after damaging ankle ligaments in Shane Williams' testimonial game on Saturday. Gatland is also without Grand Slam heroes Martyn Williams, Lee Byrne, Gavin Henson, Mike Phillips, Dwayne Peel and Alix Popham. Bennett's Ospreys team-mate Richard Hibbard... Submitted by: PCW - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Millions of tiny starfish live on undersea volcano

1 vote	WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Marine scientists surveying a large undersea mountain chain were amazed to find millions of tiny starfish swirling their arms to capture food in the undersea current. An expedition by 19 scientists, including five from Australia, studied the geology and biology of eight Macquarie Ridge sea mounts. Submitted by: Jose Cuervo - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ New Discovery A Step Towards Better Diabetes Treatment

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ScienceDaily (July 3, 2008) — Uppsala scientists have shed light on the processes that determine the release of the blood sugar-lowering hormone insulin. The discovery is based on the development of image analysis methods that make possible the detailed study of events immediately inside the plasma membrane of the insulin-secreting cells. Submitted by: GoWithABC - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ T. Rex Tissue Discovery Questioned

1 vote	By Zoe Elizabeth Buck, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jul. 31--A fossil researcher at a Washington state museum has triggered doubts about the discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex tissue by N.C. State paleontologist Mary Schweitzer. Submitted by: dc006 - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytelling

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Peter Freund, Professor Emeritus in Physics at the University of Chicago, is author of A Passion for Discovery. The book recounts stories about many key 20th-century physicists and mathematicians, including... Click here for more information. Peter Freund packed his book, A Passion for Discovery, with stories about important 20th-century physicists and mathematicians. Submitted by: quantikev - Visited 8 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Murray reveals new fitness regime

1 vote	The 21-year-old Scot missed last year's championships through injury and has yet to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam. "You've got to see me in the gym I was doing chin-ups with a 20kg weight attached to me a week ago," he said. Submitted by: jordanb27 - Visited 14 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Shuttle Discovery on Track for Saturday Launch

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Editor's Note: This story was updated at 4:29 p.m. EDT. spare parts for the outpost's commode, mission managers said today. Kibo laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). Discovery's crew, commanded by veteran spaceflyer Mark Kelly, flew in to sunny skies here at the Florida spaceport today. They arrived on T-38 jets from Houston around 12:00 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT). launch at 3:00 p.m. Submitted by: mirceaxp - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Huntington's Disease: Discovery Will Assist Treatment And Research Into Fatal Brain Disorder

1 vote	An early confirmation of Huntington's disease in people who have tested gene positive for the disease could enable treatment to commence early, even before motor, cognitive and psychiatric symptoms arise. Using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMR)... Submitted by: ezcat - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment