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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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New Google data show Microsoft's piracy problems (Update 2)

(AP) -- Google's Internet search engine receives more complaints about websites believed to be infringing on Microsoft's copyrights than it does about material produced by entertainment companies pushing ...

Technology / Internet

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Infrared spectroscopy allows scientists to analyze protein structure on ultrafast timescale

Proteins can take many different shapes, and those shapes help determine each protein’s function. Analyzing those structures can tell scientists a great deal about how a protein behaves, but many of the ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rock sleuths: Researchers seek clues to atmospheric changes ahead of animal life

For more than a decade, scientists have dismissed claims that examining carbon-rich rocks could yield clues to the atmospheric and oceanic conditions on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but now researchers ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tracking Lake Erie water snake in fight against invasive fish

Thanks to research by a University of Cincinnati undergraduate student and two team members, there's a new tool that's now been tested and found to work in continuously recording the habits of snakes.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mesquite trees displacing Southwestern grasslands

As the desert Southwest becomes hotter and drier, semi-arid grasslands are slowly being replaced by a landscape dominated by mesquite trees, such as Prosopis velutina, and other woody shrubs, a team of University ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

New research reveals chief executive 'churn' as myth

Research into the leadership structure of the UK's largest companies, carried out by the University of Southampton in collaboration with executive search consultants Thorburn McAlister, suggests turnover rates ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study characterizes 300-million-year-old tropical forest preserved in volcano ash

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pompeii-like, a 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China. A new study by University of Pennsylvania paleobotanist Hermann ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Speed limit on the quantum highway

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have measured the propagation velocity of quantum signals in a many-body system.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Under the electron microscope -- A 3-D image of an individual protein

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Gang Ren whirls the controls of his cryo-electron microscope, he compares it to fine-tuning the gearshift and brakes of a racing bicycle. But this machine at the U.S. Department of Energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom

Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast


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