(AP)—The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi has deactivated its account on a popular Vietnamese website that's full of suspected pirated music and Hollywood movies. The U.S. had used the site to promote American values, including respect ...
Internet
Nov 28, 2012
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The latest effort to decipher the unique aroma signature of the durian—revered as the "king of fruits" in southeast Asia but reviled elsewhere as the world's foulest smelling food—has uncovered several new substances ...
Other
Nov 28, 2012
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Nylon, Kevlar and other synthetic fabrics: Step aside. If new scientific research pans out, people may be sporting shirts, blouses and other garments made from fibers modeled after those in the icky, super-strong slime from ...
Materials Science
Nov 28, 2012
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Picture two charged particles in a vacuum. Thanks to laws of elementary electrostatics, we can easily calculate the force these particles exert upon one another, and therefore predict their movements.
General Physics
Nov 28, 2012
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Analysis published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) in the most recent issue of the journal Science examine the relationship between public and private investments in research ...
Environment
Nov 28, 2012
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Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by MIT's Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk's unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks.
Materials Science
Nov 28, 2012
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(Phys.org)—An international team led by researchers from the University of Warwick and Oxford University is now dealing with unexpected results of an experiment with strongly heated graphite (up to 17,000 degrees Kelvin). ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 28, 2012
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BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, today announced its latest advances in the analysis, management and dissemination of "Big Genomics Data" at their 3rd bioinformatics software and data release conference. Released ...
Biotechnology
Nov 28, 2012
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Microsoft is trying to skewer Google as a lousy holiday shopping guide in its latest attempt to divert more traffic to its Bing search engine.
Internet
Nov 28, 2012
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The Fiat 500 is getting bigger and going electric.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 28, 2012
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