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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

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

Arctic seabirds adapt to climate change

The planet is warming up, especially at the poles. How do organisms react to this rise in temperatures? An international team led by a CNRS researcher from the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Actor Alan Alda sponsors 'fiery' science contest

American actor Alan Alda remembers the disappointment of being 11 and asking a teacher about the flame at the end of a candle, only to be brushed off with the answer: "It's oxidation."

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Megaupload: a boon to users but a bane for copyright holders

The website Megaupload.com, which was shut down by US authorities over copyright violations, is among the world's most popular filesharing and streaming websites with a reported 50 million users a day.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Disney comes to YouTube

Disney films were available for rent on YouTube on Wednesday in the latest bid by the Google-owned website to transform into an online stage for the gamut of digital video content.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

YouTube, Disney teaming up

YouTube and The Walt Disney Co. announced on Monday they are teaming up to produce an original video series and feature "family-friendly" Disney programming on the popular video-sharing site.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

YouTube launches broad entertainment venture

(AP) -- YouTube is making a bold step into original programming in an entertainment venture with some 100 content creators, from Madonna to The Wall Street Journal.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NJIT math professor announces picks for Cy Young and Most Valuable Player: Says Rangers will win

With Major League Baseball's World Series set to begin today, NJIT math professor Bruce Bukiet has once again analyzed the players most deserving of winning baseball's most important awards for the 2011 season. He also provides ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Like a TV network, Yahoo launches fall programming

(AP) -- With TV network style, Yahoo is launching a fall slate of shows in a bid to strengthen its original programming.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ongoing global biodiversity loss unstoppable with protected areas alone

Continued reliance on a strategy of setting aside land and marine territories as "protected areas" is insufficient to stem global biodiversity loss, according to a comprehensive assessment published today ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Digital studios mature by adopting 'old media' ways

Nine studio executives sat in a glass-enclosed conference room in Beverly Hills, Calif., discussing potential snowy locales for filming later this year.

Technology / Other

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

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

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