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Vultures use face flushing technique for instant status updates

Tech savvy humans who use social media sites to instantly update their 'statuses', may be behaving like vultures who use 'face flushing' as a visible way of instantly updating their own status when interacting ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Murders, Traffic Deaths Connected

If you want to know how many people are killed in car accidents in a particular U.S. state, look to its prisons. Regions with higher murder rates also tend to have a greater number of traffic fatalities, according to a new ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Zynga's chief operating officer plays it safe

As a hurricane barreled toward the Florida Keys, John Schappert, the chief operating officer of Zynga Inc., was on a charter boat to catch lobsters with half a dozen friends.

Technology / Business

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Predicting how proteins will partner

Growing up with a father who taught at Cornell University, and surrounded by friends whose parents were also on Cornell faculty, Amy Keating had little doubt that she would follow the same path.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Voters favor deep-voiced politicians: study

Candidates with lower-pitched voices may get more votes in the 2012 election.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Better understanding of triangular hormonal relationship between crop, fungus and parasite

Parasitic plants ruin crops and threaten the food production for some three hundred million people not only in Africa, but also elsewhere in the world. Developing crops are increasingly falling prey to these ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ant colonies remember rivals' odor and compete like sports fans

A new study led by the University of Melbourne has shown that weaver ants share a collective memory for the odour of ants in rival nests, and use the information to identify them and compete, similar to how sports fans know ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Samsung says to sell 25 mln 'smart TVs' this year

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it plans to sell more than 25 million "smart TVs" this year as it tries to capture the emerging Internet TV market eyed by competitors including Apple.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When worlds collide: Researchers harness supercomputers to understand solar storm, magnetosphere

If the sun is anything, it is reassuring. It rises, sets, and rises again, allowing us to grow crops, get tan, and power homes, just to name a few of humanity's most important life-sustaining functions. No ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Intel packs performance and reliability into its latest SSD 520 series

Intel Corporation announced today its fastest, most robust client/consumer solid-state drive (SSD) to date, the Intel Solid-State Drive 520 Series (Intel SSD 520), a 6 gigabit-per-second (gbps) SATA III SSD ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Bacterial plasmids -- the freeloading and the heavy-lifters -- balance the high price of disease

Studying self-replicating genetic units, called plasmids, found in one of the world's widest-ranging pathogenic soil bacteria -- the crown-gall-disease-causing microorganism Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Ind ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Earth's energy budget remained out of balance despite unusually low solar activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity -- not changes in solar activity -- are the primary force driving global warming.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 26 | with audio podcast


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