(AP) -- Jamaica has shuttered all citrus nurseries across the tropical country to try and check an invasive pest that carries a fast-spreading bacteria capable of devastating its $43 million commercial industry, officials ...
Ecology
Jul 6, 2011
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(AP) -- Scientists are monitoring unusual underground activity that could signal an eruption at the Hekla volcano in southern Iceland.
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2011
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(AP) -- The weather isn't cutting NASA any breaks, not even for the last space shuttle launch.
Space Exploration
Jul 6, 2011
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Nokia Corp., battered by the popularity of smartphones, is abandoning the Japanese market, after a brief foray with luxury cell phones costing as much as 20 million yen ($250,000).
Business
Jul 6, 2011
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(AP) -- President Barack Obama kicked off his first Twitter town hall with - what else? - a tweet.
Internet
Jul 6, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In what might at first seem obvious, but isn't after further thinking, a group of physicists from the United States and Canada have demonstrated, for the first time, that images generated by light, can be ...
(AP) -- Long before "FarmVille" there was "Civilization," the iconic computer game in which players build a civilized world over thousands of years. Now, the game's designer, Sid Meier, is bringing his creation to Facebook.
Software
Jul 6, 2011
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By applying a coating to individual silicon nanowires, researchers at Harvard and Berkeley have significantly improved the materials' efficiency and sensitivity.
Nanophysics
Jul 6, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's like a Brownie camera for the digital age: The microscopic device fits on the head of a pin, contains no lenses or moving parts, costs pennies to make – and this Cornell-developed camera could revolutionize ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 6, 2011
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Geo-engineering schemes aimed at tackling global warming through artificial iron fertilisation of the oceans would significantly affect deep-sea ecosystems, according to research involving scientists from the United Kingdom's ...
Environment
Jul 6, 2011
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