Europe's online surveillance still less than US
European governments' ability to monitor citizens' online activity on security grounds has increased significantly in recent years.
Internet
Jun 11, 2013
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Pinterest moves to conquer French
Pinterest said Tuesday it was launching a new "localized" version of the bulletin-board style social media site for French users.
Internet
Jun 11, 2013
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Mayor to discuss prepping NYC for warming world
(AP)—The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York's future: a city where by the 2050s, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone that would cover a quarter of the land, with temperatures steadily rising.
Environment
Jun 11, 2013
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Thousands of abandoned fishing nets to be made into carpet tiles
Nine thousand kilos of discarded fishing nets have been collected for recycling into carpet tiles, drastically transforming littered beaches along the Danajon Bank, Philippines.
Ecology
Jun 11, 2013
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Identifying potential disease-transmission sources in animal species by calculating risk to humans
Spanish and US scientists have successfully identified animal species that can transmit more diseases to humans by using mathematical tools similar to those applied to the study of social networks like Facebook or Twitter. ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2013
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Blueprint for blood vessel fusion discovered
The fusion of blood vessels during the formation of the vascular system follows a uniform process. In this process, the blood vessels involved go through different phases of a common choreography, in which the splitting and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 11, 2013
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New means to communicate population risk assessments among scientists and decision-makers
Population viability analysis (PVA) is a method used by conservation scientists for a range of purposes – including advancing conservation theory, planning, policy and management. PVAs are particularly important for assessing ...
Ecology
Jun 11, 2013
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Plunging fish numbers linked to dam releases
A significant decline in the numbers of native fish in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin may be linked to released dam water being too cold for breeding.
Environment
Jun 11, 2013
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UC San Diego launches new research computing program
The University of California, San Diego has deployed a new high-performance research computing system called the Triton Shared Computing Cluster, or TSCC, serving researchers at UC San Diego and any of the other UC campuses ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 11, 2013
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Land use changes, housing demographics shift in Washington State
A recent government report reveals that the number of houses in dispersed rural settings in western Washington has doubled over the past 30 years, and that 20 percent of nonfederal land is currently developed.
Environment
Jun 11, 2013
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