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Rising Nitrogen Levels Alarm Scientists

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:54:55 EST

Study warns that higher atmospheric amounts of reactive nitrogen could lead to all sorts of environmental trouble.

Low-Cost Laptop Opens Up to Microsoft

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:06:40 EST

One Laptop Per Child's XO to run Windows XP soon, hopefully in dual-boot mode.

Meteorites Could Reseed Life on Devastated Earth

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:02:01 EST

Microbes could likely survive being blasted into space during asteroid impact -- and also falling back to Earth in meteorites.

Huge Music-Sharing Award May Be Overturned

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:44:16 EST

Judge who oversaw trial in which Jammie Thomas ordered to pay record companies $222,000 now says instructions to jury were wrong, cites earlier cases.

Video-Game Sales Take Big Leap in April

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:27:40 EST

Americans bought more Wiis than Xbox 360s, PlayStation 3s combined; industry's overall sales up 47 percent from year earlier.

Online Games Help Search Engines Work Better

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:02:09 EST

Carnegie Mellon University launches gwap.com to use humans to get computers recognize images more efficiently.

Google Begins Blurring Faces in 'Street View' Images

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:55:58 EST

Privacy complaints force company to obscure identities in images; entire project will take months.

El Nino May Have Helped Magellan Cross Pacific

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:41:19 EST

Warm water in eastern Pacific may have calmed things enough for Portuguese explorer to go far up coast of South America.

Software Lets Cameras Take Billion-Pixel Images

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:26:49 EST

Device mounts on tripod, rotates camera with new pic at every angle in complete circle, then stiches them together on computer.

World's Smallest Helicopter Flight to Honor Leonardo

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:02:05 EST

A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius' original idea.

'Shot' Sea Lions Likely Died From Heat

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:21:14 EST

Sixty-degree weather could easily have killed animals trapped in cages, officials contend.

U.S. Army Eyes Robotic Suit That Amplifies Movement

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:02:03 EST

Robotics firm helping assess 150-pound suit's viability for soldiers of the future.

AP: Cox Cable Blocks Its Own Internet Subscribers

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:57:13 EST

Cox joins Comcast as two of only three ISPs worldwide in deliberately slowing or blocking own customers' Internet traffic.

Verizon Wireless Plans Shift to Linux Phones

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:50:00 EST

Company first U.S. carrier to back Linux mobiles, expects software to become OS for most of its handsets.

Chinese Look to Animals to Predict Earthquakes

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:37:46 EST

Strange animal behavior reported before last week's quake, mirroring previous indications before big quakes.

Air Force Colonel: Pentagon Needs Its Own Botnet

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:03:50 EST

Govenment needs to fight electronic fire with fire, officer argues in journal article.

'Crazy' Ants Swarm Houston, Ruin Electronic Devices

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:07:26 EST

In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.