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September 05, 2010

Powerful Quake Hits New Zealand Scientists Find Secret of Famed Goal Do Bone Drugs Boost Throat Cancer? NASA To Launch Solar Probe Project Remnants of Ancient Feasting Found Earl Weakens to a Category 1 Storm A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island, hitting west of the southern city of Christchurch. No tsunami alert was issued and no injuries were reported. Thirteen years after Roberto Carlos stunned onlookers with his amazing "banana" free kick that seemed to be a fluke that defied the law of physics, scientists have finally worked out just how he did it. People who take bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study suggests, despite an earlier study that said there was no link. NASA is working on a plan to launch a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory says. The Solar Probe Plus project is slated to launch no later than 2018. Communal feasting on significant occasions goes back in human history at least 12,000 years, say researchers investigating an ancient burial site in Israel. Such feasts were crucial in creating communities. Hurricane Earl sideswiped North Carolina's Outer Banks, flooding the vacation islands but causing no injuries and little damage, then chugged up the Eastern Seaboard as a weaker but still dangerous storm.   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   Powerful Quake Hits New Zealand   Scientists Find Secret of Famed Goal Do Bone Drugs Boost Throat Cancer? Two studies reveal contrasting findings.   FULL STORY NASA To Launch Solar Probe Project To visit, study sun closer than ever.   FULL STORY Remnants of Ancient Feasting Found Feasts crucial in creating communities.   FULL STORY Earl Weakens to a Category 1 Storm Waning hurricane is still dangerous.   FULL STORY Computing More Google Updates Chrome Browser Nvidia Shows New GPUs for Laptops Digital Life More Samsung Sees Fast Galaxy S Growth Verizon Offers Prepaid Data Plans Discovery More Remnants of Ancient Feasting Found Jordan Unearths Iron Age Temple Space More NASA To Launch Solar Probe Project NASA: New Satellite Ready for Service Innovation More Data Storage Advances Are Looming The Electricity Grid Wants Heat Relief Health More Do Bone Drugs Boost Throat Cancer? Active Minds Delay Dementia, at First Science News More Scientists Find Secret of Famed Goal Hawking: No God Needed for Creation Environment More Powerful Quake Hits New Zealand Earl Weakens to a Category 1 Storm

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Samsung Unleashes Its Galaxy Tab on Apple's iPad Samsung introduced the Galaxy Tab, a tablet PC aimed at Apple's iPad, at the IFA electronics show in Germany. Samsung presented the tablet with a pun that cites a "new galaxy of possibilities."   Toshiba Will Offer Android-Based Folio 100 Tablet The rapidly growing category of tablets has a new family member as Toshiba announced that its Folio 100, a 10.1-inch, Android 2.2-based tablet computer, will be on sale in Europe by the end of October.   New Sony E-Readers Have Touchscreens, Higher Prices Facing competition from Amazon.com, Apple and Barnes & Noble, Sony has released updated models of its of e-readers, with touchscreen technology, limited wireless, and higher prices.

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