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Great Barrier Reef heading for danger: UNESCO

UNESCO on Saturday urged decisive action from Australia to protect the Great Barrier Reef from a gas and mining boom, warning it risked being put on its list of world heritage sites deemed "in danger".

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 02, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Megaupload wants piracy charges dismissed

Megaupload has filed papers in US District Court to dismiss the federal government's massive online piracy case against the file-sharing website and its founder, Kim Dotcom.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Finding good music in noisy online markets

In 2004, a trio of researchers at Columbia University began an online experiment in social-media marketing, creating nine versions of a music-download site that presented the same group of unknown songs in ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers find first Prehistoric Iberian twins

Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have discovered the remains of newborn twin girls in the archaeological site of Olèrdola in Barcelona. They date back to between the middle ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Germany may be birthplace of European music and art

The remains of the world's oldest musical instruments and human figurines suggest that music and artistic depictions of the human form may have first developed in Germany around 40,000 years ago, say researchers.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 6

Google clears key mapping software for Syria

Google announced Wednesday that its mapping software and other products would be available in Syria after getting export approval by the US government.

Technology / Internet

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Building site for molecular complexes

Often the sum is greater than its parts. Using an atomic force microscope as a “crane”, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich researchers have succeeded in bringing two biomolecules together to form an active complex ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New Zealand smashes global child pornography ring

A global network that used social networking sites such as Facebook to distribute child pornography has been smashed after a tip-off from New Zealand authorities, officials said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Jack Ma: English teacher turned Internet billionaire

After being knocked back by American venture capitalists in 1999, Jack Ma -- a cash-strapped entrepreneur -- convinced friends to give him $60,000 to start Chinese online retailer Alibaba.com.

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Australia warns of 'bespoke' online child sex abuse

Australian police warned Thursday that paedophiles were using Internet live-streaming sites to order "bespoke" child sex crimes for real-time viewing, from countries including the Philippines.

Technology / Internet

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook co-founder Saverin to stay in Singapore (Update)

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin intends to stay in Singapore but has no plans to take up citizenship after giving up his US passport, his spokesman said.

Technology / Business

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GM to pull ads from Facebook: report

General Motors late Monday confirmed that it is pulling its advertising from Facebook because it determined paid ads had little impact on consumers.

Technology / Business

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Online scams cost $485 mn in US in 2011: survey

Online scams including identity theft schemes, "advance fee" and "romance fraud" cost Americans some $485 million in 2011, a report prepared for the FBI said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Whale population size, dynamics determined based on ancient DNA

Estimates of whale population size based on genetics versus historical records diverge greatly, making it difficult to fully understand the ecological implications of the large-scale commercial whaling of the 19th and early ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

News aggregator Ongo to shut down

Online news service Ongo, which launched last year as a paid "aggregator" for various newspapers, said Tuesday it would close down by the end of the month.

Technology / Internet

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon them, including National Nature Reserves, Ramsar Sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation.

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