News tagged with states
Carbon dioxide emissions reach record high
Emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide reached an all-time high last year, further reducing the chances that the world could avoid a dangerous rise in global average temperature by 2020, according to the International ...
May 29, 2012 |
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Study: Residential segregation still a problem in US
Despite increasing numbers of multiethnic neighborhoods in the United States, relatively few black or white families are actually moving into these types of communities, according to a new study in the June issue of the American So ...
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May 31, 2012 |
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Twitter usage soars in US: survey
One out of seven Americans who go online use Twitter and eight percent do it every day, a survey showed Thursday.
May 31, 2012 |
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Research group creates longer lived and more efficient quantum memory
(Phys.org) -- One of the main sticking points to creating a true quantum computer capable of performing meaningful work, is the problem of storing quantum state information in memory. Recent efforts have resulted in highly ...
May 30, 2012 |
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Wildfire and an example of its important link to the ecosystem
Traveling the western U.S. state of Nevada in the 1860s, a young American writer named Mark Twain heard a "world of talk" about the beauty of Lake Tahoe and so set out one August day to see the lake perched ...
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Bias found in state supreme courts, according to UGA study
The assignment to write a court's majority opinion is one of the major tools for shaping judicial and, consequently, public policy. Researchers at the University of Georgia, along with the University of North Carolina at ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 31, 2012 |
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Livestock industry beefs up Illinois's economy
A recent report conducted by the University of Illinois provides an economic snapshot of the current state of the livestock industry, giving the Illinois livestock industry data to back up their importance to the state. The ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
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