Birds 'shout' to be heard over the noise produced by man-made activity, new research has shown.
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2015
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A fresh look at some old rocks has solved a crucial mystery of the last Ice Age, yielding an important new finding that connects to the global retreat of glaciers caused by climate change today, according to a new study by ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 21, 2015
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A new poll finds African-American millennials say they are just as engaged in getting news online as their white counterparts, further debunking a long-held belief that people of color are at risk of being left behind technologically.
Internet
Aug 21, 2015
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Netflix is getting jeered for excluding the employees in its DVD-by-mail service from a recently introduced benefit that gives up to a year of paid leave to most of its workers after the birth or adoption of a baby.
Business
Aug 21, 2015
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U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs in national security or law enforcement were among hundreds of federal workers found to be using government networks to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website ...
Security
Aug 21, 2015
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The gas station's ground was covered with the small winged bugs. Piles of carcasses, inches deep, sat swept to the sides.
Ecology
Aug 21, 2015
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A bird cull on a New Zealand island has been abruptly halted after marksmen killed four rare takahe, an endangered species with only 300 known to exist, officials said Friday.
Ecology
Aug 21, 2015
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The tiny seedling was brought over from Eastern Europe and parts of Asia nearly 200 years ago and planted along riverbanks across the United States, mostly in the Southwest, to prevent erosion. It grew fast, its thick branches ...
Ecology
Aug 21, 2015
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An interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Universities of Bayreuth and Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) report in Nature on nanofibers, which enable for the first time a directed energy transport over several micrometers ...
Nanophysics
Aug 21, 2015
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Each year, 311—New York City's main hub for government information and non-emergency services—receives millions of requests and complaints, including New Yorkers' gripes about their neighbors.
Social Sciences
Aug 21, 2015
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