Nearly two in three Americans think President Barack Obama is better suited than Republican rival Mitt Romney to deal with an alien invasion, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

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A labour rights group said Thursday it had found "deplorable" conditions at Apple suppliers in China, following a probe of several firms that supply the US technology giant.

Technology - Business

Jun 27, 2012 3.9 / 5 (8) 1

Faster ways to search content on the Internet and share photos between two phones are promised in the next version of Google's Android operating system for mobile devices.

Technology - Software

Jun 27, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

(AP) — Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a splashy entrance during a San Francisco conference while CEO Larry Page recovered from an ailment that has left him unable to speak.

Technology - Business

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The Philippines' ancient rice terraces, carved into mountains like giant green stairs, have been removed from a UN list of endangered world heritage sites, the UN office in Manila said Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

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Gabonese President Ali Bongo on Wednesday set fire to five tonnes of ivory worth millions of euros to mark his government's commitment to battling poachers and saving elephants.

Biology - Ecology

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The New York Times said Wednesday it was launching a Chinese-language news website to deliver "high-quality coverage of world affairs, business and culture" to readers in China.

Technology - Internet

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(AP) — The Wall Street analysts who know Facebook best are giving the company's stock a mixed review. Think: like, not love.

Technology - Business

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Google's Plus social network will have its own app for tablet computers.

Technology - Software

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(AP) — Two high-definition cameras began streaming live video Wednesday of clown-like Atlantic puffins waddling, preening and nesting on a remote Maine island.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 27, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1

Elephant movement in response to changes in rainfall patterns can be used to determine biologically relevant boundaries between seasons, as opposed to commonly used arbitrary definitions of seasons. The full report is published ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 27, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

The grasslands in Namibia are home to so-called "fairy circles" - circular bare spots, usually surrounded by a ring of taller grass – of unknown origin. These circles are described and characterized in ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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Geckos have independently evolved their trademark sticky feet as many as 11 times, and lost them nine times, according to research published June 27 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.

Biology - Plants & Animals

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Using studies that span the last three decades, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have compiled the first evidence-based comprehensive study of the potential for tsunamis in Northwestern California. The paper, "Paleoseismicity ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jun 27, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been able, for the first time, to watch viruses infecting individual bacteria by transferring their DNA, and to measure the rate at which ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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