With fresh investment, BuzzFeed expands anew (Update)
The social news group BuzzFeed unveiled a major new expansion plan, using a fresh infusion of $50 million in venture capital.
Business
Aug 11, 2014
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US agency warns consumers about Bitcoin risks
Federal regulators are warning consumers about the risks of using virtual currencies such as Bitcoin.
Business
Aug 11, 2014
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Climate change negatively impacting Great Lakes, researcher says
Climate change is having a direct negative effect on the Great Lakes, including impacts to recreational value, drinking water potential, and becoming more suited to invasive species and infectious pathogens, according to ...
Environment
Aug 11, 2014
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Expert panel calls for public health research on natural gas drilling
Groundwater and air quality testing before, during, and after natural gas drilling – which includes hydraulic fracturing—should be key components of efforts to ensure the safety of communities near these sites, according ...
Environment
Aug 11, 2014
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Blood cells are new, unexpected source of neurons in crayfish
Researchers have strived for years to determine how neurons are produced and integrated into the brain throughout adult life. In an intriguing twist, scientists reporting in the August 11 issue of the Cell Press journal Developmental ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2014
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Japanese universities develop new world's fastest camera
(Phys.org) —Researchers working at two universities in Japan have jointly developed what is being described as the world's fastest camera. A photo-device with a frame interval of 4.4 trillion frames per second. In their ...
Sun sets for a NASA solar monitoring spacecraft
After 14 years of monitoring Earth's main energy source, radiation from the sun, NASA's Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor satellite has lost contact with its ground operations team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2014
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Governing geographically dispersed cloud data
IBM inventors have patented a technique that helps clients automatically analyze and manage the location where their public and private cloud data is stored, thereby enabling companies to comply with regulations governing ...
Software
Aug 11, 2014
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On the edge of graphene
Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have discovered that the conductivity at the edges of graphene devices is different to the central material.
Nanomaterials
Aug 11, 2014
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Ride shotgun with NASA saucer as it flies to near space
NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project successfully flew a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space in late June from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii. The ...
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2014
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