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Supreme Court won't hear case of ex-student's music download fine
A former Boston University student who was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs on the Internet says he will continue fighting the penalty, despite the Supreme Court's refusal to hear his appeal.
Joel Tenenbaum, 28, of...Tags: Lawyers, Science and Technology, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Justice System, Judges
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Quake study offers new clues on a California fault's mystery
Thanks to a new method of modeling earthquakes, scientists may now understand why the Parkfield segment of the San Andreas fault — a carefully studied region known for producing moderate temblors every 20 years or so — has been behaving...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Science and Technology, Science, Natural Disasters
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Insider trading inquiry focuses on medical devices deal
Prosecutors probing insider trading in the medical devices industry are investigating a senior Goldman Sachs banker and a former employee of the notorious hedge fund Galleon Group. The investigation, according to a person briefed on the matter, is...Tags: Lawyers, Raj Rajaratnam, Science and Technology, Securities, Insider Trading
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Bob Smith dies at 78; inventor of fog-resistant ski goggles
At his kitchen table, orthodontist Bob Smith tried to solve a problem that dogged him on the ski slopes in the early 1960s by using dental tools and foam to fashion prototypes of fog-resistant goggles. As he developed what is commonly called the modern...Tags: Companies and Corporations, New Year's Day, Robert Earl, Science and Technology, Science
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Research paper saves UCSD scientist from $400 traffic fine
L.A. NOWA UCSD scientist has published a four-page research paper that may directly impact more people than almost any 100-page dissertation.... -
UCSD scientist gets out of ticket with 'very simple' physics
Thanks to a "very unusual combination of circumstances" and a quick set of calculations, a UC San Diego scientist successfully fought a $400 traffic ticket with a four-page research paper. Dmitri Krioukov, a senior research scientist at UCSD,...Tags: University of California, San Diego, Science and Technology, Science
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Neutrinos faster than the speed of light? Not so fast ...
World NowBack in September, a group of physicists working at the OPERA experiment at Italy’s Gran Sasso Laboratory astounded the scientific world by clocking neutrinos, a type of subatomic particle, that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light. It... -
A universe without purpose
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world was designed so that we could flourish. The position of the Earth around...
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'Faster-than-light neutrino' scientist steps down
World NowThe leader of an experiment that was said to have shown subatomic particles traveling faster than the speed of light has resigned from his post, according to Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics.... -
Happy birthday, Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
Jacket CopyGabriel Garcia Marquez turns 84 today. Celebrate and read his interview with Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa.... -
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz: Google Doodle for a guy who rode a wave
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz -- who, like Van Gogh and Mozart, was a rare genius not fully appreciated during his lifetime -- is honored with a Google Doodle today, his 155th birthday. And perhaps the reason the German physicist wasn't valued for his work was...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Science, Symptoms
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Roy Britten dies at 92; Caltech biologist was DNA, gene pioneer
Roy J. Britten, a Caltech biologist who discovered that the mammalian genome includes large quantities of repetitive DNA sequences that do not serve as blueprints for genes, has died. He was 92.
Britten, who had pancreatic cancer, died Jan. 21 at his...Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Science and Technology, Human Body, Biology, Medical Research
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