(PhysOrg.com) — Biodiversity in freshwater systems is impacted as much or more by environmental change than tropical rain forests, according to University of Oklahoma Professor Caryn Vaughn, who serves as director of the Oklahoma Biological Survey. `When we think about species becoming extinct, we don`t necessarily think of the common species in freshwater systems, many of which are declining,` says Vaughn.
Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Skyjumper Felix Baumgartner says he’s gearing up to break the 50-year-old record for the highest parachute jump this year. And he’s not the only one.
Yes, 2010 has only just started, but these devices are the ones we think everyone will be ga ga over this year and will rack up big sales by the next holiday season.
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NuVo’s new Music Port Server (NV-MPS4) and Color Touch Pad (NV-CTP36) are now available.
While the Music Port Server is compatible with the Essentia system, the Color Touch Pad is not.
All their detail after the jump.
The Nokia N900 is a powerful smartphone in Nokia’s portfolio, and today we have a video of the Nokia N900 which runs the Maemo 5 operating system with a ported Android operating system making the Nokia N900 a dual-boot system.
The Nokia N900 hack video comes courtesy of the guys over at jkontherun, and lasts almost two and a half minutes and shows us the Nokia N900 booting up in both Maemo 5 and Android OS, although there’s no commentary attached.
Apparently the guys done the dual boot as a proof of concept, but if you fancy having Maemo 5 and Android at least you now know it can be accomplished.
Anyway enough from me, I’ll let you crack on to that Nokia N900 dual boot video which can be viewed below and soak up the enjoyment.
Young women and teenage girls often face efforts by male partners to sabotage birth control or coerce pregnancy — including damaging condoms and destroying contraceptives — and these efforts, defined as “reproductive coercion,” frequently are associated with physical or sexual violence, a study by a team of researchers led by UC Davis has found.
Considered a dermatological nuisance that was long gone, skin irritations caused by toilet seats appear to be making a comeback in pediatricians’ offices, according to research led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center investigator Bernard Cohen, M.D.
Since the best city planners around the world have not been able to end traffic jams, scientists are looking to a new group of experts: slime mold.
This is the third model in the Samsung Genio range and the Samsung Genio B5310 has been given a name change to the Samsung Genio slide for the exclusive launch on Vodafone.
So, otherwise known as the Samsung Genio Pro, Vodafone have secured the exclusive release for the B5310, or the Genio Pro or the Genio Slide? The network decided to rebrand this latest QWERTY, touchscreen phone after winning the rights exclusively to launch under the new model name of Genio Slide.
It isn’t that unusual for networks to suddenly adopt a name change an example recently was T-Mobile and the new Samsung Galaxy Spica, the model number remains as the i5700 the same as the Genio Slide being the B5310, T-mobile re launched as the Samsung Galaxy Portal.
Surely this just adds to the confusion surrounding the mobile phone industry, potential customers are overloaded with loads of deals to choose from so why complicate matters further by changing the names of handsets right before they launch? Source -bignews.biz
(AP) — Rescuers in New Zealand managed to coax 33 beached whales back out into deep waters Sunday, but another 15 of the pod died, a conservation official said.
(AP) — After trudging through the wilds of western Thailand for several hours, the forest rangers thought they were finally onto something: the distant sound of crunching leaves.
It has been predicted by analysts that Microsoft will be launching their own Self Brand phone within a couple of months.
This will turn the very long rumoured Project Pink into reality. It is expected that the self owned brand mobile will probably turn up at Barcelona in February or at CTIA in Las Vegas.
It would seem that Microsoft has been cooperating with some cell phone manufactures in order to develop one type of phone said to be similar to Zune. The phone will come with high definition video playing function and will be equipped with a minimum of a 5 megapixel camera.
Its also predicted that the self brand will be based in Windows Mobile 7 operating system. So in a nut shell it would seem that Microsoft will be releasing its very own self brand phone together with Windows Mobile 7. Source - bignews.biz
The head of the UN’s climate science panel said Saturday a doomsday prediction about the fate of Himalayan glaciers was “a regrettable error” but that he would not resign over the blunder.
(AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has a new commandment for priests struggling to get their message across: Go forth and blog.
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