At a time of record auto recalls and rising highway deaths, safety advocates say the Republican-run Congress is snubbing their agenda and taking sides with the auto and trucking industries on legislation that they and the ...
Business
Oct 21, 2015
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Disney's ESPN is cutting about 300 jobs, or 4 percent of its staff, amid signs that the traditional cable bundle is less far-reaching than it once was.
Business
Oct 21, 2015
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Just 2 centimeters long and 2 millimeters in diameter, a Florida International University (FIU) researcher has invented a sorbent tube that could bring analytical chemistry to the masses. The simple yet highly sensitive device ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 21, 2015
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The first nine months of this year were the hottest on record worldwide, US government scientists said Wednesday, in another sign of the impact of dangerous global warming.
Environment
Oct 21, 2015
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Vice Media's website went dark Wednesday to protest the detention in Turkey of one of its journalists reporting on anti-government unrest in the Kurdish-dominated southeast.
Internet
Oct 21, 2015
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Processing fabric for the latest fashions and other textile-based products today requires thousands of chemicals, some of which are toxic and cause 20 percent of the world's water pollution. To reduce its environmental footprint, ...
Other
Oct 21, 2015
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Scientists have predicted a new phase of superionic ice, a special form of ice that could exist on Uranus and Neptune, in a theoretical study performed by a team of researchers at Princeton University.
Condensed Matter
Oct 21, 2015
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Each year migratory birds travel over thousands of kilometres. In spring and autumn, billions of individuals move from colder and less productive areas across vast distances to warmer and more productive places. To do so, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2015
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For academics, practitioners, and generalists alike, an article forthcoming in the December 2015 issue of the Journal of Retailing can serve as a handy guide to the massively studied science of marketing channel systems. ...
Economics & Business
Oct 21, 2015
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The term "rational use," as applied to fishing rights in Antarctic waters, has been misused by certain countries, an analysis by a team of researchers has concluded. Its work, which comes ahead of the 34th international convention ...
Environment
Oct 21, 2015
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