Google adds storage to sweeten online office suite
(AP) -- Google Inc. is expanding its Internet warehouse so people can stash more digital keepsakes from their life and work.
Internet
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Northern forests do not benefit from lengthening growing season
Forests in northern areas are stunted, verging on the edge of survival. It has been anticipated that climate change improves their growth conditions. A study published last week in Forest Ecology and Management journal shows ...
Environment
Jan 12, 2010
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Sunflower genome holds the promise of sustainable agriculture
As agricultural land becomes increasingly valuable, the need to maximize its utilization increases and decisions about what crops to plant and where, become paramount.
Biotechnology
Jan 12, 2010
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Scientists discover new protein function
Carnegie Mellon University's Philip R. LeDuc and his collaborators in Massachusetts and Taiwan have discovered a new function of a protein that could ultimately unlock the mystery of how these workhorses of the body play ...
Biochemistry
Jan 12, 2010
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Ethnic Minority Vote Stronger Than Ever But Massively Undervalued By Main Parties
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research just published by Professor Muhammad Anwar, from The University of Warwick’s Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, shows that ethnic minority votes will be more important than ever in the ...
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2010
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Proper flower and leaf development tied to the same gene
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of Dartmouth researchers have discovered a new role for an important plant gene. Dartmouth Biology Professor Tom Jack and his colleagues have learned that a gene regulator called miR319a (micro RNA ...
Biotechnology
Jan 12, 2010
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3D View of the Brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- A completely new view of the brains of mice has been achieved by a team headed by R. Graham Cooks at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, USA). By using mass-spectrometric techniques and imaging processes, ...
Biochemistry
Jan 12, 2010
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Trees invading warming Arctic will cause warming over entire region, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to scientists' predictions that, as the Earth warms, the movement of trees into the Arctic will have only a local warming effect, University of California, Berkeley, scientists modeling this scenario ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2010
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New multi-touch screen technology developed (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from New York University have formed a company to bring flexible multi-touch screens using a new technology to a range of devices, from e-readers to musical instruments. The new touch screens respond ...
Team predicts satellite could locate hundreds of Earth-sized planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- The race to find exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- continues to quicken. Last week NASA researchers announced that the agency’s new space telescope, Kepler, has discovered five new exoplanets, ...
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2010
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