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Yahoo! to open sites to outside contributors

Internet giant Yahoo! began opening up its properties to outside writers, photographers and videographers on Monday with the launch of the "Yahoo! Contributor Network."

Technology / Internet

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Who Does What on Wikipedia?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The quality of entries in the world's largest open-access online encyclopedia depends on how authors collaborate, UA Eller College Professor Sudha Ram finds.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Report claims Wikipedia losing editors in droves

(PhysOrg.com) -- The findings of a Spanish study claiming that Wikipedia's editors are leaving at an alarming rate have been refuted by the Wikimedia Foundation and by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.

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New lab turns SD gold town into scientific hub

(AP) — Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.

Physics / General Physics

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Samsung defends Android Galaxy S3 PenTile display

(Phys.org) -- So what's a hot new Galaxy S3 smartphone doing with a PenTile AMOLED display like this? That is a question that surprised developers and smartphone blog sites earlier this month when Samsung ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Time, place and how wood is used are factors in carbon emissions from deforestation

A new study from the University of California, Davis, provides a deeper understanding of the complex global impacts of deforestation on greenhouse gas emissions.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Encyclopedia of Life reaches historic 'one million species pages' milestone

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has surged past one million pages of content with the addition of hundreds of thousands of new images and specimen data from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New 'Map of Life' project aims to show distribution of all animals, plants on planet

A research team involving Yale University and the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a first public demonstration version of its "Map of Life," an ambitious Web-based endeavor designed to show the distribution of ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

W&M GIG takes transdisciplinary look at mercury pollution

Science alone cannot solve the pressing environmental problems threatening the world. Nor can the humanities. In order to make effective assaults against a wide range of ills, trans-disciplinary approaches are vital. Consider ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change' envisions the good life in a harsher world

Think like a planet - and reorganize society to reflect it, says Case Western Reserve University's environmental ethicist Jeremy Bendik-Keymer. That's a new way of thinking about reversing the tide of climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Study reveals dynamic changes in gene regulation in human stem cells

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California (UC) San Diego has discovered a new type of dynamic change in human stem cells.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

With climate and vegetation data, geographers closer to predicting droughts in Africa

What might happen if droughts were predicted months ahead of time? Food aid and other humanitarian efforts could be put together sooner and executed better, say UC Santa Barbara geographers Chris Funk, Greg ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MIT launches student-produced educational video initiative

MIT has launched an initiative encouraging its students to produce short videos teaching basic concepts in science and engineering. The videos — aimed at younger students, in grades from kindergarten through high school ...

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