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Measuring the distant universe in 3-D: BOSS proves it can do the job with quasars
The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars – supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies billions of light years away – has been constructed by ...
May 01, 2011 |
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Google to correct map highlighting Rio slums
Internet giant Google has agreed to redo its online map of Rio de Janeiro within a year after being criticized for giving undue prominence to the Brazilian city's notorious favelas.
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Google Earth maps show populations at risk near nuclear plants
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a novel use of existing technology and data, Nature News in conjunction with Columbia University, has created a Google Earth map that shows the different population sizes surrounding nuclear power plants; ostensibly, to demonstr ...
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Belgium probes Google's Street View
Belgium became Thursday the latest European country to investigate Google's Street View picture map after cars taking pictures for the programme collected private data.
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Google turns to users for guidance on US maps
(AP) -- Google Inc. doesn't hesitate to seek directions when it comes to trying to improve its online mapping service.
Apr 19, 2011 |
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3-D map of Guatemala's 'Head of stone' confirms size, location of ancient buildings
Archaeologists have made the first three-dimensional topographical map of ancient monumental buildings long buried under centuries of jungle at the Maya site "Head of Stone" in Guatemala.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Google adds smartphone 'check-in' deals
Google has added a Latitude feature that lets people using iPhones or Android-powered smartphones get rewarded for loyalty to shops or restaurants.
Apr 09, 2011 |
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Website maps what Americans look for in love
In the cosmopolitan US capital, singles are seeking everything from "Morocco" to "Ethiopia", "Kazakhstan" and "steppes", to "Ascot" and "Bourgogne."
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Swiss court orders Google to blur images on Street View
A Swiss court said Monday that it has ordered Internet giant Google to make all images of individuals and vehicle plates unrecognisable on its Street View picture map, so as to comply with privacy rules.
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Google's citizen cartographers map out the world
Google on Thursday revealed that an army of citizen cartographers is behind its widely used mapping service, helping the Internet search giant chart the world, including often inaccessible places.
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Nursing students map their way to understanding HIV
In the Faculty of Nursing, students are taught the importance of connecting with the community, and nursing professor Vera Caine has come up with a way for students to not only learn about working in the community, but also ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Researchers create next-generation chemical mapping on the nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- A pixel is worth a thousand words? Not exactly how the saying goes, but in this case, it holds true: scientists at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have pioneered a new chemical mapping ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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European team suggests new way to measure scientific relevance by city
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a move that must have been at least partly aimed at provoking prideful nationalism, Lutz Bornmann of the Max Planck Society in Munich and Loet Leydesdorff from the University of Amsterdam ...
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Review: Foursquare a fun complement to city jaunts
(AP) -- At first, I didn't see the point of Foursquare, the mobile service that turns sharing your location with friends into a game of sorts. More than a year later, I still don't, but I'm hooked - much ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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How advanced genetic techniques can unravel complex human stories
Scholars from all over the world are gathering at the University of Cambridge today for a workshop entitled Studia Stemmatologica. They will be looking at novel ways of applying advanced genetic-mapping techniques ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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