Others - msbbc - 2010-09-03 17:12:09.

Mystery of the floating octopus solved

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A female argonaut octopus uses her shell to capture air to control her buoyancy.As far back as Aristotle, naturalists have wondered why the females of a strange group of octopuses sport a thin, papery shell when plenty of their tentacled cousins are essentially naked, letting all their slime hang out.


 

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Others - msbbc - 2010-09-03 17:12:09.

Google gets bedbugs

Even the search giant isn't immune from the problem, discovered in its New York offices.

 

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Digg trying to avoid getting dug into obscurity

Digg, one of the first Internet sites that let users "dig" Web news stories by voting them thumbs up or down, is trying to avoid getting dug into obscurity.

 

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Some ancient galaxies had wild youth

Ancient galaxies may be cosmic senior citizens today, but some have a wild streak in their past, one packed with frenetic star birth, astronomers say.

 

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Tether maneuvers spacecraft without fuel

The space tether could be used to boost a satellite while it's in orbit.A NASA team is preparing a bid to test a chemical-free propulsion system that taps the power of Earth's magnetic field to move satellites and spacecraft in orbit.


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72 percent of adults are text-messaging now

More American adults have taken to texting in the past year, but teens still take the crown when it comes to using their phones for text-messaging, with 87 percent of them doing so, a new study says.

 

 

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