The earthquake that set off the tsunami which caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster was unleashed by a stealthy nine-year buildup of pressure on a plate boundary, scientists said Tuesday.
Earth Sciences
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The Consumer Electronics Show, set to kick off here this week, is sure to be full of hype and spectacle. But that excitement won't translate into big sales growth for the industry, the trade group behind the show forecast ...
Business
Jan 6, 2015
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The technology category came in first for number of dollars pledged on Kickstarter in 2014, the crowd-funding platform revealed on Monday.
Business
Jan 6, 2015
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Hoping to attract more customers by offering less TV, Dish Network executives announced Monday that they will soon launch a slimmed-down - OK, emaciated - online TV service for $20 a month.
Telecom
Jan 6, 2015
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South Korea said Tuesday that rival North Korea has a 6,000-member cyber army dedicated to disrupting the South's military and government, a dramatic increase from an earlier estimate of 3,000 such specialists.
Security
Jan 6, 2015
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This year's International Consumer Electronics Show focuses less on the new and more on the improved.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 6, 2015
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Catalysis can be used to enhance the reactivity and selectivity of specific chemical transformations and decrease the amount of energy consumed by these processes. Most catalytic reactions fulfill the criteria for a sustainable ...
Materials Science
Jan 6, 2015
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An international team of scientists has looked into the diminutive world of seed beetles in Xinjiang, China to reveal a diversity of 19 species for the region, 4 of which are new records for the area. The study was published ...
Ecology
Jan 6, 2015
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The Hall effect, discovered in 1879, is observable when a Hall voltage perpendicular to the current is produced across a conductor under a magnetic field. Although the Hall effect was discovered in a sheet of gold leaf by ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 6, 2015
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For a skin cell to do its job, it must turn on a completely different set of genes than a liver cell—and keep genes it doesn't need switched off. One way of turning off large groups of genes at once is to send them to "time-out" ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 6, 2015
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