Fired Yahoo CEO backs down, resigns from board
(AP) -- Carol Bartz has resigned from the Yahoo board of directors that she blasted for firing her as the company's CEO last week.
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Sep 12, 2011
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Dolby lawsuit against RIM dropped
(AP) -- Dolby Laboratories says Research in Motion has agreed to license its audio technologies that were the subject of two recent lawsuits against the BlackBerry maker.
Business
Sep 12, 2011
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Broadcom to acquire NetLogic for about $3.7B
(AP) -- Broadcom Corp. said Monday it has agreed to acquire NetLogic Microsystems Inc. for about $3.7 billion in cash.
Business
Sep 12, 2011
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Researcher investigates Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact on coast
Soon after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, Annette Engel, associate professor in earth and planetary sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, grabbed all the ...
Environment
Sep 12, 2011
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50 new exoplanets discovered by HARPS
Astronomers using ESO's world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced a rich haul of more than 50 new exoplanets, including 16 super-Earths, one of which orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star. By ...
Astronomy
Sep 12, 2011
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Nuclear detector: New materials hold promise for better detection of nuclear weapons
Northwestern University scientists have developed new materials that can detect hard radiation, a very difficult thing to do. The method could lead to a handheld device for detecting nuclear weapons and materials, such as ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 12, 2011
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Bigger is better in pension funds, researchers find
The health of the pension system is front page news in countries around the world with an ongoing debate on required contribution rates or minimum retirement ages. An equally relevant issue is how efficiently savings invested ...
Economics & Business
Sep 12, 2011
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Evolution keeps sex determination flexible
There are many old wives' tales about what determines a baby's sex, yet it is the tight controls at the gene level that determine an organism's sex in most species. Researchers at Michigan State University have found that ...
Evolution
Sep 12, 2011
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Team finds stable RNA nano-scaffold within virus core
With the discovery of a RNA nano-scaffold that remains unusually stable in the body, researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have overcome another barrier to the development of therapeutic RNA nanotechnology.
Bio & Medicine
Sep 12, 2011
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Research team develops mathematical model to explain harmony in music
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bernardo Spagnolo of the University of Palermo in Italy and his Russian colleagues have developed a model that they believe explains why it is we humans hear some notes as harmonious, and others as dissonant. ...
