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Comment Re:They should have named it "Myomer"... (Score 1) 49

by lowem on Saturday December 22, 2007 @11:36AM (#21790852) Attached to: NASA's Invention of the Year Award Goes to Synthetic Muscles

And I expected the Battlemech comment to make first post or thereabouts. Not too many old fogeys like us around, are there.

Submission + - New Hotmail In Your Inbox

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @12:22AM

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has started work on upgrading Hotmail after testing the new system on select customers for two years. Microsoft said more than 20 million users provided feedback to the new-look Hotmail. The free email service made its debut in 1996.

Submission + - Most Powerful Star Explosion Observed

Submitted by necro81 on Monday May 07, 2007 @11:35PM

necro81 writes: The NY Times is reporting a discovery from a team of researchers about observations of the cataclysmic explosion of a 100- to 200-solar-mass star — the brightest stellar explosion ever observed. The researchers believe that the explosion is similar to the death spasms of the first stars in the universe. Rather than create a black hole, the super-massive star's collapse is believed to have been so energetic as to create unstable electron-positron pairs that tore the star apart before it could collapse into a black hole — seeding the universe with heavier elements.

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