Music and media companies are pinning fresh hopes for reviving their businesses on a small ribbon that Facebook has begun putting on user profiles called the "ticker."

Technology - Internet

Sep 22, 2011 not rated yet 0

For decades, ecologists have toiled to nail down principles explaining why some habitats have many more plant and animal species than others.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 22, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have for the first time provided details of their "confinement controlled sublimation" technique for growing high-quality layers of epitaxial graphene on ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Sep 22, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Scientists say they have excavated Maryland's largest dinosaur fossil find in five years, a football-sized bone weighing between two and three pounds.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 22, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

China's subsidies to farmers soared six-fold between 2008 and 2010 to $147 billion, making it the global leader, OECD data showed Wednesday, in what could complicate trade liberalisation talks.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 22, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 3

The FBI on Thursday arrested a member of the LulzSec hacking group suspected over a massive cyberattack earlier this year on Japanese electronics giant Sony, officials said.

Technology - Business

Sep 22, 2011 not rated yet 2

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard has performed another extreme act of corporate remodeling, firing its CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months and replacing him with billionaire businesswoman and political aspirant ...

Technology - Business

Sep 22, 2011 not rated yet 0

Brandon Gonzales has been carrying his black Pantech cellphone with the slide-out keyboard for two years. Brandon is 12.

Technology - Other

Sep 22, 2011 not rated yet 1

A new study on human impact to wildlife in some of Canada's most popular national parks has identified limits at which trails can be used before ecological disturbance takes place. The study led by University of Calgary Masters ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 22, 2011 not rated yet 1

For decades, scientists have believed that a relationship exists between how much biomass plant species produce and how many species can coexist.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 22, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

NASA on Thursday refined the crash course of a six-ton defunct satellite, saying it is likely to miss North America, though its exact landing spot remains unknown.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 22, 2011 3.4 / 5 (7) 5

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, today announced the launch of what is believed to be the largest academic-based cloud storage system in the U.S., specifically designed ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Sep 22, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

An international team of researchers has for the first time sequenced the genome of a man who was an Aboriginal Australian. They have shown that modern day Aboriginal Australians are the direct descendents ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 22, 2011 4.9 / 5 (11) 0 |

Relatively accurate predictions for the extent of Arctic sea ice in a given summer can be made by assessing conditions the previous autumn, but forecasting conditions more than five years into the future depend on understanding ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 22, 2011 4 / 5 (2) 3 |

France took in 936 million euros ($1.3 billion) from the auction of frequencies to build fourth-generation mobile telephone networks, telecommunications regulator Arcep said on Thursday.

Technology - Telecom

Sep 22, 2011 not rated yet 0