NASA's Arctic Probe Hopes to Avoid Martian 'Curve Ball'

The Phoenix Mars Lander is set to explore the red planet's north pole for signs of primitive life, assuming it can make a successful landing. Ten of the 15 attempts to land a probe on Mars have failed.

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Oregon 'Dead Zone' Likely a Result of Global Warming

A zone of oxygen-depleted water off the Oregon coast, harmful to sea life, has returned for the sixth consecutive year, and scientists say climate change is the reason.

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Review of Gay Policies by Psychologists Rankles Conservatives

Religious conservatives pressure the American Psychological Association as 10-year-old policy on 'reparative therapy' is reconsidered.

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Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future

That's hyper as in linked and local as in location. It's a new kind of city in which you're never out of touch and never, ever out of options.

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Australian Hackers Get IPhone Working on Telstra; Analyst Says Software Upgrade Due Soon

In iPhone news today, Australian hackers succeed in getting an iPhone to work on the Telstra network. Separately, a financial analyst predicts that Apple will soon issue a software update for the iPhone.

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Ten Reasons You Don't Really Need a Cell Phone

Cellphones are complicated, expensive and hard to use. So why do we continue to use them?

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Legal First: Marine Court Martial Uses Live Internet Video

A military-justice tribunal probes civilian killings in Iraq, taking testimony and allowing cross-examination of service members deployed around the globe using the internet. The trial by video gets mixed reviews.

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Stars Turn to Web Video to Lose Tinseltown's Shackles

My Damn Channel, an attempt by Hollywood stars to prove that some creativity still exists in that forlorn industry town, makes its web debut Tuesday.

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Milan Smog-Checks Pollution-Stressed Tresses

Figuring image-conscious citizens might abandon their cars more readily if they thought their 'dos were being damaged by pollution, Milanese officials offer free smog tests -- for the hair.

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Lock-Picking for Kids Is Good, Geeky Fun

Knowing that clever children with agile fingers and bent pieces of wire are creeping around the house forces mom and dad to up the ante on security.

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