Call for long-term view on 'dire' funding of biological research databases
A rethink is needed on the 'dire' situation of funding of databases across biology, researchers say.
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Celebrity journalism may contribute positively to consumer health behaviors: researchers
Celebrity journalism is often considered to be without merit, discounted due to its sensational details and lack of news value. MU researchers now say that celebrity journalism may be an underappreciated way to communicate ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2010
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Better student performance with peer learning
Engineering students with average grades from upper secondary school can manage difficult courses just as well as students with high grades. At least, if a group of them meet an older student once a week during the first ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2010
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Image: Where stars are born
Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's clusters and nebulae NGC 346 is a star-forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured above by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronomy
Oct 18, 2010
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Globalized economy more sensitive to recessions: physicists
By applying the same rules that explain how genomes evolve, Rice University physicists have shown that the world economy is more sensitive to recessionary shocks and recovers more slowly from recessions now than it did 40 ...
General Physics
Oct 18, 2010
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Facebook finds apps giving user ID data to advertisers (Update)
Facebook on Monday confirmed that some popular third-party applications are violating the social network's rules and transmitting identifying information about users to advertising and Internet tracking companies.
Internet
Oct 18, 2010
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Conservation of the royal warship Vasa evaluated
The conservation of the royal warship Vasa, which sank in Stockholm on her maiden voyage in 1628 and was raised in 1961, has provided a unique insight into how large waterlogged wooden archaeological relics can be preserved ...
Ecology
Oct 18, 2010
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Bridges built to help Borneo orangutans meet mates
(AP) -- Endangered orangutans on Borneo island are using fire hoses slung across rivers by humans to help them move around isolated forests to potentially meet new mates and boost the species' chances for survival, an environmental ...
Ecology
Oct 18, 2010
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Facebook talk more valuable than we think
Superficial contacts on Facebook, apparently unnecessary comments, and banal status updates may be more worthwhile than we think. This is shown in a new report from the National IT User Center. The report also predicts the ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2010
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Stonesoft finds new threat to company computer networks
The Finnish company Stonesoft said Monday it had found new techniques that bypass current security systems which cyber-criminals could use to gain access company productivity applications.
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