TiVo gets bankruptcy court approval to buy some Aereo assets
TiVo said Friday that it has received bankruptcy court approval to buy some assets of Aereo, an online startup that offered a cheaper alternative to cable TV.
Business
Mar 13, 2015
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Lion makes surprise comeback in Gabon
The noble lion has made a comeback in southeast Gabon, after disappearing for years, according to US wildlife organisation Panthera, which recently took live video footage of a male.
Ecology
Mar 13, 2015
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Embracing tech, Miami airport seeks to improve passenger experience
Miami International Airport used to be famous for the hours-long lines passengers waited in when they arrived from other countries.
Business
Mar 13, 2015
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Technology is rewriting the rulebook for human interaction
Consider the following two situations.
Other
Mar 13, 2015
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Novel monitoring tools tackle chemical surface waters pollution
With the socio-economic developments of the last decades, new emerging compounds have been produced, released and discharged through different point and diffuse sources in European rivers, lakes, and marine-coastal and transitional ...
Environment
Mar 13, 2015
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Researchers attach silicon photonic chips directly onto a processor package
The computing and telecommunications industries have ambitious plans for the future: Systems that will store information in the cloud, analyze enormous amounts of data, and think more like a brain than a standard computer. ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 13, 2015
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Cosmic bumps on cosmic ripples
In 1969, the astrophysicists Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich realized that the then recently discovered cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) would be distorted by hot cosmic gas. Hot electrons in the intergalactic ...
Astronomy
Mar 13, 2015
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Scientists develop atomic force microscopy for imaging nanoscale dynamics of neurons
Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Kanazawa University (Japan) have succeeded in imaging structural dynamics of living neurons with an unprecedented spatial resolution.
Nanophysics
Mar 13, 2015
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Solving the obstetrical dilemma: Study shows wide hips do not mean less efficient locomotion
Among the facts so widely assumed that they are rarely, if ever studied, is the notion that wider hips make women less efficient when they walk and run.
Other
Mar 13, 2015
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The number of fungal species has been greatly overestimated
A study led by the researchers of the University of Tartu Natural History Museum discovered that the most species-rich fungal communities are in tropical rainforests. The estimated global species richness of fungi, 1.5–5.1 ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 13, 2015
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