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Government Web sites kept alive at Cyber Cemetery

(AP) -- It was a historian's nightmare. During the change from the Clinton to the Bush administration, Web sites affiliated with the Clinton White House went dark, and an unknown number of online documents ...

Technology / Internet

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Start of 2012, March shatter US heat records

(AP) -- It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 151

Researchers report potential for a 'moderate' New England 'red tide' in 2012

New England is expected to experience a "moderate" regional "red tide" this spring and summer, report NOAA-funded scientists working in the Gulf of Maine to study the toxic algae that causes the bloom. The algae in the water ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Belarus imposes tough new Internet curbs

Ex-Soviet Belarus unveiled tough new Internet restrictions on Friday that limit public access to opposition websites and impose fines on providers for failing to monitor their clients.

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created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Forest fires are becoming larger and more frequent

The study, recently published in the journal Climatic Change, is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between two researchers: one is UC3M Professor Santiago Fernández Muñoz, who has wo ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Timing is right for SDSC cloud

Successfully managing, preserving, and sharing large amounts of digitally-based data has become more of an economic challenge than a technical one, as researchers must meet a new National Science Foundation (NSF) policy requiring ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marcus Garvey movement owes large debt to Caribbean expats, historian finds

Conventional wisdom has long held that Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, which advocated racial self-help and the unity of the African diaspora, grew out of the heady political and cultural environment ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marine lab research tracks pollutants in dolphins, beluga whales

Bottlenose dolphins and beluga whales, two marine species at or near the top of their respective food webs, accumulate more chemical pollutants in their bodies when they live and feed in waters near urbanized ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A glimpse of the archives of the future

How does an archivist understand the relationship among billions of documents or search for a single record in a sea of data? With the proliferation of digital records, the task of the archivist has grown ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Papers: Guatemalans welcomed US syphilis doctor

(AP) -- As U.S. doctors in Guatemala were wrapping up one of the most unethical medical experiments they had ever conducted, a Guatemalan medical official praised the lead researcher as noble and thanked him profusely.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Past medical testing on humans revealed

(AP) -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, ...

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created Feb 27, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 10


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