AT&T caps monthly traffic for DSL subscribers
(AP) -- AT&T is placing a limit on the amount of data its home Internet subscribers can transfer in a month.
Telecom
Mar 14, 2011
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Tech companies pitch in on earthquake response
(AP) -- Google, Twitter and other technology companies are finding ways to help following last week's earthquake in Japan.
Internet
Mar 14, 2011
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New high-resolution carbon mapping techniques provide more accurate results
A team of scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology and the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) has developed new, more accurate methods for mapping carbon ...
Environment
Mar 14, 2011
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Study shows why people read magazines featuring envy-inspiring models
New research reveals why people read fitness and fashion magazines featuring photos of impossibly thin or muscular models -- models whose appearance highlight the readers' own flaws.
Social Sciences
Mar 14, 2011
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Seedless cherimoya, the next banana?
Mark Twain called it "the most delicious fruit known to man." But the cherimoya, or custard apple, and its close relations the sugar apple and soursop, also have lots of big, awkward seeds. Now new research by plant scientists ...
Biotechnology
Mar 14, 2011
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Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire: study
A new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by Neanderthals in Europe dating back roughly 400,000 years, yet another indication that they weren't dimwitted ...
Archaeology
Mar 14, 2011
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New research focuses on prion diseases
New research by Chongsuk Ryou, researcher at the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics in the UK College of Medicine, may shed light on possible treatments for prion ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 14, 2011
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Rock-paper-scissors tournaments explain ecological diversity
According to classical ecology, when two species compete for the same resource, eventually the more successful species will win out while the other will go extinct. But that rule cannot explain systems such as the Amazon, ...
Evolution
Mar 14, 2011
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Seedlings thrive with distant relatives, seeds with close family
A variety of plant seedlings suffer most from competition when planted with close relatives, and grow best when planted alongside distant relatives in field soils, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the ...
Ecology
Mar 14, 2011
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Trapping a rainbow: Researchers slow broadband light waves with nanoplasmonic structures
A team of electrical engineers and chemists at Lehigh University have experimentally verified the "rainbow" trapping effect, demonstrating that plasmonic structures can slow down light waves over a broad range of wavelengths.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 14, 2011
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