(AP) -- The FBI is investigating allegations that computer hackers in China broke into Google's email system, but no official government email accounts have been compromised, the Obama administration said Thursday.
Internet
Jun 2, 2011
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(AP) -- The "Jeopardy"-playing IBM computer Watson has been named person of the year by the Webby Awards.
Other
Jun 2, 2011
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(AP) -- Disney CEO Bob Iger defended the company's production of 3-D films Thursday after 3-D ticket sales for several recent movies lagged their predecessors.
Business
Jun 2, 2011
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Working to better predict general patterns of evolution, a University of Houston (UH) biologist and his team have discovered some surprising things about gene mutations that might one day make it possible to predict the progression ...
Evolution
Jun 2, 2011
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In many ways, life is like a computer. An organism's genome is the software that tells the cellular and molecular machinery—the hardware—what to do. But instead of electronic circuitry, life relies on biochemical ...
Nanophysics
Jun 2, 2011
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Students overall performed better – and educationally disadvantaged students generally made even greater strides than everyone else – in an introductory biology course at a university where recent budget woes doubled ...
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2011
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Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and changes the tree. And ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 2, 2011
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Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a potentially important new therapeutic target that could prevent stress-related cell death, a characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases ...
Biochemistry
Jun 2, 2011
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Mutations of DNA that lead to one base being replaced by another don't have to happen as single, independent events in humans and other eukaryotes, a group of Indiana University Bloomington biologists has learned after surveying ...
Biotechnology
Jun 2, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You can add another check to the column of things that a robot can do that an average human can't. In this case the column we are getting beat out on is juggling. Students in the Department of Control Engineering ...
