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Google introduces its Public Data Explorer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google's latest release is an application that allows users to create their own interactive, animated graphs and charts using public data such as census data or government statistics on unemployment ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report




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Keeping up with embryogenesis: New microscope lets users track individual cells as they move, divide

(Medical Xpress) -- The transformation of a fertilized egg into a functioning animal requires thousands of cell divisions and intricate rearrangements of those cells. That process is captured with unprecedented ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 5 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Medicare auction will face severe difficulties, research shows

Medicare's new method for buying medical supplies and equipment -- everything from wheelchairs and hospital beds to insulin shots and oxygen tanks -- is doomed to face severe difficulties, according to a new ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Just like us: Immigrants embrace 'distinctly American' values

Much of the fervor fueling the anti-immigration debate is shaped by the belief that immigrants—legal and otherwise—are somehow a threat to our national identity. Americans, some critics believe, venerate a set of ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Peeking at peak oil: Will consumers face oil rationing within a decade?

What happens when a handful of the world's largest oil fields— accounting for two-thirds of the world's oil—run dry? What are the implications of such a prospect for food production, economic growth and ultimately, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 55

Continuity down through the ages: Proof of a thousand years' use of a Sicilian farmland estate

Archaeological excavations have provided the first substantiation that a farmland estate in Sicily boasts a history which reaches back over a thousand years. Numerous finds demonstrate the continuous use of ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Velvet spiders emerge from underground in new cybertaxonomic monograph

Velvet spiders include some of the most beautiful arachnids in Europe and some of the world's most cooperative species. Social species can be very abundant in parts of tropical Africa and Asia with conspicuous co ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NASA survey counts potentially hazardous asteroids

(Phys.org) -- Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids. The results reveal ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The most profitable asteroid is...

With the recent announcement of the asteroid mining company, Planetary Resources, some of the most-asked questions about this enticing but complex endeavor include, what asteroids do we mine? Which are the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 60

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

Scientists measure Martian sand movement: Dune migration rates appear to be similar to those on Earth

Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars—observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a lot ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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