Coast Guard Preps for Hurricane Earl With Centuries of Experience Behind It

U.S. Coast Guard / Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert A Coast Guard C-130 Hercules airplane is prepped for a search and rescue patrol at Air Station Elizabeth City, Aug. 31, 2010. The crew of the C-130 broadcasted a warning message to boating and shipping traffic from the northern tip of New Jersey to the [...]

NASA Flies Mission Through Hurricane Earl

AP Photo/Lynne Sladky Flight engineer Bill Fleming sits in a plane cockpit as a team of NASA scientists prepare for a flight into Hurricane Earl to gather data about what makes some tropical storms intensify while others fizzle. The flight is part of a six-week NASA research mission to collect information that could help forecasters [...]

Apple Unveils New iPods, Apple TV and More

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North Carolina County Orders Evacuation of 30,000 Ahead of Earl

NOAA A Sept. 1 satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Earl, a Category 3 hurricane, moving westward toward the North Carolina coast. North Carolina’s Dare County has ordered 30,000 residents and visitors to leave the Outer Banks’ Hatteras Island as Hurricane Earl approaches. Officials issued the order Wednesday [...]

The iPod Is Dead, Long Live the iPod

Apple A guitar with an apple-shaped cut-out is featured in the invitation to Apple’s upcoming event, scheduled for Wednesday, September 1, at the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco. Clearly, the event will focus on music. Will Apple kill the iPod? Or will it transform it into a new, more drool-worthy device? We’ll know [...]

Foursquare, MTV to Offer Badge for Being STD-Free

Foursquare Foursquare users can earn badges such as these ones for visting places or accomplishing events. NEW YORK — You can “check in” to restaurants and bars, so how about health clinics while you get tested for sexually transmitted diseases? Foursquare, the phone application for telling friends and strangers where you are, is [...]

Who Will Build NASA’s Space Taxis?

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Dolphin Snot Offers Less Painful Source of DNA

NASA A bottlenose dolphin leaps near a research boat. The fluid that spews out the top of a dolphin or whale’s head when it exhales can provide scientists with valuable genetic information, giving them an alternative to shooting the animals with a retractable dart to collect a small tissue sample, new research suggests. [...]

Internet Phasing Out Demand for Printed Oxford English Dictionary

Aug. 29: An entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, defining a dictionary. It’s been in print for over a century, but in future the Oxford English Dictionary — the authoritative guide to the English language — may only be available to peruse online. LONDON — It’s been in print for more than a century, but [...]

Issue for the week of September 11th, 2010

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