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New Hearst e-magazine weaves tales from Internet

US media giant Hearst Corp. on Friday launched LMK.com, a free online magazine that scours the Internet for news and photos and presents the information as topic pages.

Technology / Internet

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Toward a global microwave standard

Much of what is known about decadal climate change – and much of what appears on the evening weather forecast as well – comes from satellite-based remote sensing of microwave radiation at different ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Quack medicines, insect immigrants, and what eats what among secrets revealed by DNA barcodes

The newfound scientific power to quickly "fingerprint" species via DNA is being deployed to unmask quack herbal medicines, reveal types of ancient Arctic life frozen in permafrost, expose what eats what in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Final newspaper of Captain Scott's doomed expedition reproduced

The last volume of the expedition newspaper, South Polar Times, written by the men waiting for news of Captain Scott’s return from the South Pole in the Antarctic winter of 1912, has just been publis ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Society for Neuroscience to create BrainFacts.org

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has been awarded $1.53 million in funding over six years to create and maintain BrainFacts.org, a unique nonprofit online source for authoritative public information about the progress and pr ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Blekko, Montage offer new ways to search the Web

Internet search engines have become such a helpful fixture of everyday life that it's tough to imagine life before them. They gather information at eye-blink speed, can guess a user's intent and present real-time results ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

EU probe delves into heart of Google's business

European regulators are tackling a puzzle that could shift the balance of power on the Internet: Is Google stifling competition by juicing its search results to favor its services over its rivals?

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most influential Twitter users revealed

With over 5.6 million followers each, Britney Spears and Lady Gaga are the most popular people followed on the social networking site Twitter. But they're not necessarily the most influential.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientist proposes method to quantify Gulf oil spill

While the world has reacted with shock and anger to the massive amounts of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon platform blowout, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has proposed that methane ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Keeping kids away from R-rated movies may prevent early drinking

Middle-school children whose parents restrict access to R-rated movies are substantially less likely to start drinking than their peers who are allowed to see such films, a new study suggests.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Online encyclopedia makes life searchable

(PhysOrg.com) -- One hundred and fifty thousand species down, 1.65 million to go. That is the tally for the online Encyclopedia of Life, an ambitious two-year-old project with the goal of nothing less than documenting in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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