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Google announces MySpace email pact, shows off phone
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TechTeam on 29 May, 2008 07:07:00
 
Google has showed off one of the first working phones built using its open
source Android software and announced an email pact with social networking site
MySpace..

Optical pacemaker regulates heartbeats with laser beam
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TechTeam on 28 May, 2008 01:17:27
 
The world's first optical pacemaker, tried out in a lab, can help control and
regulate erratic heartbeats, with short yet powerful laser beams. "If you

Robots tread on thin ice when scientists fear
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TechTeam on 28 May, 2008 08:36:46
 
This is one machine that goes where humans fear to tread - on thin ice.SnoMote -
designed at Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) and Pennsylvania

Patch-up telescope sees first detail of star beyond galaxy
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TechTeam on 28 May, 2008 07:48:38
 
Scientists in Germany who devised a way to hook up two powerful telescopes in
stereo have observed for the first time the details of a

Viking DNA retrieved from 1,000-year-old skeletons
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TechTeam on 28 May, 2008 07:00:02
 
Scientists have extracted authentic DNA from ancient skeletons, deftly skirting
around many of the problems past researchers faced in preserving their
purity.The drill demonstrated for

Close kin keep their distance in animal kingdom
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TechTeam on 28 May, 2008 06:45:14
 
Mammals cannot share their habitat with closely-related species because the need
for the same kind of food and shelter would lead them to compete to

Giant flying reptiles preferred to walk the earth
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TechTeam on 28 May, 2008 06:34:49
 
Huge flying reptiles of ancient times weren't exactly predators grabbing fish
from seas, but were really more suited to life on the ground.A particular kind

Giant flying reptiles preferred to walk the earth
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TechTeam on 28 May, 2008 06:34:49
 
Huge flying reptiles of ancient times weren't exactly predators grabbing fish
from seas, but were really more suited to life on the ground.A particular kind

Giant flying reptiles preferred to walk the earth
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TechTeam on 28 May, 2008 06:34:49
 
Huge flying reptiles of ancient times weren't exactly predators grabbing fish
from seas, but were really more suited to life on the ground.A particular kind

Study suggests new way to tackle brain tumour
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TechTeam on 27 May, 2008 04:46:28
 
Experts have suggested a new way to tackle particularly tenacious brain tumours
known as glioblastomas by attacking a virus often found in these cancers.The
technique