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Study finds plastic in nine percent of 'garbage patch' fishes

The first scientific results from an ambitious voyage led by a group of graduate students from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offer a stark view of human pollution and its infiltration ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Online TV is a format just waiting to click

Kiefer Sutherland, the star of "24," and John Hurt, the eminent British thespian, recently joined forces, playing opposite each other in "The Confession," a sort of short feature about a hit man and a priest. I say "sort ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disease-resistant oysters call for shift in Bay restoration strategies

Development of disease resistance among Chesapeake Bay oysters calls for a shift in oyster-restoration strategies within the Bay and its tributaries. That's according to a new study by researchers at the Virginia ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | 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

New view of undersea giant kelp forest 'canopy' -- from satellites above

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists have a new view of the giant kelp in the Pacific Ocean--through a scuba mask and a satellite's "eye."

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Netflix series to star Kevin Spacey

Netflix, which has become a US video giant streaming movies and TV shows, is getting behind a series of its own starring Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey as an ambitious US politician.

Technology / Business

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

Netflix vying for first rights to new TV series (Update)

(AP) -- Netflix Inc. is trying to buy the Internet streaming rights to a 26-episode drama starring Kevin Spacey before the series is shown on a television network.

Technology / Internet

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

Foursquare in deal to create TV series based on it

(AP) -- Foursquare, a popular startup that lets people share their location with friends through a mobile app, is working with production company Endemol USA to create a television series.

Technology / Business

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Helping health providers answer questions about dialysis through NIH videos

Health care providers can now take advantage of a new video series to help them talk with patients about preparing for dialysis treatments, the National Institutes of Health announced today.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Animals' right to privacy denied by documentary-makers

Animals' right to privacy is being denied by makers of television wildlife documentaries according to new research. Dr Brett Mills from the University of East Anglia argues that while wildlife programmes can play a vital ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 18

Researchers Use New Acoustic Tools to Study Marine Mammals and Fish

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past decade, researchers have developed a variety of reliable real-time and archival instruments to study sounds made or heard by marine mammals and fish. These new sensors are now ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hollywood adds money, talent to made-for-Web shows

(AP) -- Web sites that buy original video clips often pay so little that "The Bannen Way," a flashy crime thriller debuting online, looked destined to be made poorly if it could be made at all.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NJIT prof sees 70 percent chance for Yanks to win the 2009 World Series

NJIT's Bruce Bukiet, a mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball, has computed the probability of the Yankees and Phillies winning the World Series. ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mathematics Professor Says Yankees, Dodgers Should Make World Series

With the League Championship Series set to begin tomorrow, NJIT Mathematics Professor Bruce Bukiet has, once again, analyzed the probability of each team winning their post-season series. Bukiet updates his calculations ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Software eases flow to fluid power trucks

Eaton Corporation is using IBM modeling software to develop series hydraulic hybrid systems. Replacing a vehicle’s conventional drive train and transmission, the series hydraulic hybrid (SHH) system promises dramatic fuel ...

Technology / Software

created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0