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SCIENCE / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- The wraps have been taken off the new version of the XO laptop designed for schoolchildren in developing countries. The revamped machine created by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project looks like an e-book and has had its price slashed to $75 per de.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Jan 17, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- The first pictures taken by the Messenger probe as it passed Mercury on Monday have started to arrive at Earth. They include images that show parts of the surface missed by the Mariner 10 spacecraft when it flew by the planet in the 1970s. Like the.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:54pm neoform

BBC News -- A team of astronomers from the US and the UK has obtained some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken. They were acquired using a new "adaptive optics" system which sharpens pictures taken from the Mount Palomar Observatory in California. The.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Sep 3, 2007 @ 10:36pm neoform

BBC News -- A team of astronomers from the US and the UK has obtained some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken. They were acquired using a new "adaptive optics" system which sharpens pictures taken from the Mount Palomar Observatory in California. The.. Read More