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Shoplifters hit up Chrome Store for Facebook data

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cash-for-Facebook’s-“likes” hustle hanging out in Google Chrome Web Store has been discovered by Kaspersky Lab. The researchers first discovered extensions leading to the ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Plant genomes may help next generation respond to climate change

In the face of climate change, animals have an advantage over plants: They can move. But a new study led by Brown University researchers shows that plants may have some tricks of their own.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop technique to determine ethnic origin of stem cell lines

An international team of scientists led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has developed a straightforward technique to determine the ethnic origin of stem cells.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Alpha

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the full release of Chrome 1.0 in December, Google has just released Chrome 2.0 alpha that brings many noticeable improvements over Chrome 1.0. With this new alpha release of Chrome 2.0, ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 weblog

Majority of teens discuss risky behaviors on MySpace, studies conclude

In a pair of related studies released by Seattle Children's Research Institute and published in the January 2009 issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, researchers found that 54 percent of adolescents freque ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8

What online social networks may know about non-members

(Phys.org) -- What can social networks on the internet know about persons who are friends of members, but have no user profile of their own? Researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of Heidelberg ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

A new glimpse into ancient human history

Analyzing DNA from four ancient skeletons and comparing it with thousands of genetic samples from living humans, a group of Scandinavian scientists reported that agriculture initially spread through Europe because farmers ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

lobSTR algorithm rolls DNA fingerprinting into 21st century

As any crime show buff can tell you, DNA evidence identifies a victim's remains, fingers the guilty, and sets the innocent free. But in reality, the processing of forensic DNA evidence takes much longer than a 60-minute primetime ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Yahoo! accuses Facebook of patent infringement (Update)

Yahoo! filed suit against Facebook in a California court on Monday accusing the social networking giant of infringing on 10 patents held by the Internet pioneer.

Technology / Business

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Study: We're getting less friendly on Facebook

(AP) -- Whether it's pruning friends lists, removing unwanted comments or restricting access to their profiles, Americans are getting more privacy-savvy on social networks, a new report found.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 10

Ted Bundy's DNA added to database in hope of solving cold cases

The DNA profile of Ted Bundy, one of the United States' most notorious serial killers, was uploaded Friday into a national database in the hope that the new material will help solve murder cases that have gone cold over the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fighting back from extinction, New Zealand right whale is returning home

After being hunted to local extinction more than a century ago and unable to remember their ancestral calving grounds, the southern right whales of mainland New Zealand are coming home.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Citigroup says 360,000 affected by hackers

Hackers stole account information of more than 360,000 of Citigroup Inc.'s U.S. credit card customers in a recent data breach, the bank said Wednesday, almost double the number initially thought.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US lawmakers plan 'Do Not Track' bills (Update)

US lawmakers announced plans on Friday to introduce "Do Not Track" legislation that would let Internet users block companies from gathering information about their online activities.

Technology / Internet

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Your genome in minutes: New nanotechnology could slash sequencing time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Imperial College London are developing technology that could ultimately sequence a person's genome in mere minutes, at a fraction of the cost of current commercial techniques.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 9 | with audio podcast