Consumer electronics are among the most popular holiday gifts, but how many people really wanted a BlackBerry tablet, a Panasonic television or a Nokia smartphone for Christmas?

Technology - Business

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Hundreds of visitors are flocking daily to a botanical garden in southeastern Brazil to watch the rare blooming of the Titan arum, the world's smelliest and largest tropical flower.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 27, 2012 3.3 / 5 (4) 8

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will launch a new 20-megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor, the TCM5115CL, as the latest addition to its sensor line-up for digital still cameras. TCM5115CL offers the ...

Electronics - Hardware

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A new study, published December 27 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, finds that vector-borne and parasitic diseases have substantial effects on economic development across the globe, and are major drivers of differ ...

Biology - Other

Dec 27, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

(Phys.org)—Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at NASA Ames Research Center, developed a next-generation assessment of tiny airborne particle-understanding ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Dec 27, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—One approach to understanding components in living organisms is to attempt to create them artificially, using principles of chemistry, engineering and genetics. A suite of powerful techniques ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Dec 27, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

One of the National Security Administration's three national laboratories is building regional testing centers around the country to field-test hardware for solar companies before their multimillion-dollar solar systems are ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Dec 27, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

With Christmas upon us, Cambridge historian Dr Shane McCorristine and geographer and psychologist Dr Jane S.P. Mocellin take us back to the heroic age of Polar exploration, when festive celebrations served ...

Other Sciences - Other

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Apple Inc. likely will have to pay a Brazilian company for the right to use the iPhone brand in Latin America's biggest country, a Brazilian telecommunications analyst said Thursday.

Technology - Business

Dec 27, 2012 1 / 5 (5) 0

(AP)—A Florida fossils dealer pleaded guilty to smuggling charges Thursday and agreed to give up a celebrated $1 million dinosaur skeleton seized by the U.S. government earlier this year for its eventual return to Mongolia.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

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Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have figured out intimate details of how the hepatitis C virus takes over an invaded cell, a breakthrough that could point to way for new treatments for the virus.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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Researchers from the University of Vigo, in collaboration with the Environmental Services Unit at the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park (Cuba), have discovered two new species of Caribbean orchid.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 27, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—New research shows how some bacterial cells keep a 'suicide complex' ready to hand at all times.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Dec 27, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 3 |

(Phys.org)—On the 84th and 85th Martian days of the NASA Mars rover Curiosity's mission on Mars (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2012), NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture dozens ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Dec 27, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 2

There's nothing like a couple years of drought to help determine the advances being made in drought-tolerant corn. And Dr. Qingwu Xue, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist, says there are some significant ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Dec 27, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0