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LOS ANGELES — If Elizabeth Cochran allowed herself to dream, the future would look something like this:

Smithsonian opens human evolution hall


WASHINGTON — Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of our prehistoric relatives went on display Wednesday, exploring 6 million years of evolution at the National Museum of Natural History.

Fingerprints? That’s old tech. Germs may catch up to crooks.


WASHINGTON — Warning to criminals: Rubbing out your fingerprints may no longer be enough. Your germs could still give you away.

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March 14th, 2010

Brief technology

Beware of scams during tax season

Social site outcast?

LOS ANGELES — Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users’ posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.

Here today, gone tomorrow

SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software.

Strum real strings in new guitar game

NEW YORK — An upcoming musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument.
March 12th, 2010

Atom smasher revs up to 7 trillion electron volts

GENEVA — The world’s largest atom smasher could generate its first scientific breakthrough later this year when operators hope to make discoveries into the elusive nature of dark matter, the director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Monday.

Where the sun doesn’t shine

While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth.

Briefs science

Human stomach teeming with helpful bacteria

Deep space antenna getting a makeover

LOS ANGELES — The deep space antenna that relayed Neil Armstrong’s famous “one giant leap for mankind” declaration from the moon to a rapt American audience will be offline for eight months for repair.
March 7th, 2010

When customers yelp, everyone can hear it

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood transplant Caroline White figured a spa outing would be the perfect way to welcome her visiting mother to Los Angeles.

This keyboard draws a total blank

I type faster than I can write using a pen. I know this because after handwriting a few paragraphs, I had to stop because my hand became tired. Evidently writing is no different than any other physical activity. If you don’t do it for a while, you have to build back up to it.

Lessons from Farmville: Making money on social games

LAS VEGAS — The Web is fantastic at many things — e-mail, e-commerce, e-vites, for example. But unless your name is Amazon or Google, making money there has proved elusive.
March 5th, 2010

Northwest at risk of Chile-like quake

LOS ANGELES — The disaster in Chile has brought new attention to an undersea fault along the Pacific Northwest capable of producing the same type of mega earthquake and inflicting heavy damage on bustling cities like Seattle, Portland and Vancouver.

‘Every man’ vs. ‘women and children’

LOS ANGELES — Whether it is “Women and children first” or “Every man for himself” in a shipwreck may depend on how long it takes the ship to sink, researchers said Monday.

Chilean quake stole time from a day

LOS ANGELES — When an earthquake struck South America last weekend, the ground rumbled in Chile, the sea rose in the Pacific, and a day on Earth got shorter.

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