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Germs could soon be used to identify criminals
WASHINGTON - Warning to criminals: Rubbing out your fingerprints may no longer be enough. Your germs could still give you away.
It turns out the colonies of bacteria that live on people's hands are highly personal to each individual.
NASA finds life under Antarctic ice
WASHINGTON - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Six hundred feet below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.
FCC has plan to overhaul national broadband policy
WASHINGTON - More corners of the country would have high-speed Internet access and existing connections would become much faster under a sweeping proposal to overhaul U.S. broadband policy that is being unveiled today.
The plan from the Federal Communications Commission is meant to guide the government's strategy on broadband for the next decade and beyond. It reflects the Obama administration's concern that the nation that invented the Internet is in danger of falling behind the development of online applications in other countries that have faster broadband speeds at lower prices.
Scientists call for moratorium on legal ivory sales
SEATTLE - Elephant experts from around the world are joining a University of Washington scientist in calling for a moratorium on legal ivory sales, to protect elephants from being slaughtered for their tusks.
UW conservation biologist Sam Wasser has been using DNA analysis of seized ivory shipments to track the thriving black market. His research shows poachers are killing more than 8 percent of the world's elephants each year.
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
- Germs could soon be used to identify criminals
WASHINGTON - Warning to criminals: Rubbing out your fingerprints may no longer be enough. Your germs could still give you away. It turns out the... - NASA finds life under Antarctic ice
WASHINGTON - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking... - FCC has plan to overhaul national broadband policy
WASHINGTON - More corners of the country would have high-speed Internet access and existing connections would become much faster under a sweeping proposal to overhaul... - Scientists call for moratorium on legal ivory sales
SEATTLE - Elephant experts from around the world are joining a University of Washington scientist in calling for a moratorium on legal ivory sales, to...
