The technology boom that has generated a flood of engineering jobs in cities like Seattle also means a boost to a related part of the economy: vendors and temporary workers.
Business
Jul 22, 2015
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Its unusual biological characteristics make the flightless kiwi a unique kind of bird. Researchers of the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now sequenced ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2015
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Death by suffocation seems like an awfully protracted way to go and death by suffocation in the grip of a boa constrictor's coils is the stuff of nightmares. Yet Scott Boback from Dickinson College, USA, wasn't so sure that ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2015
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Whether it's in a movie theater, on TV or on a computer screen, the videos you watch have almost always been horizontal.
Internet
Jul 22, 2015
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Google on Wednesday began letting smartphone users automatically map where they have been.
Internet
Jul 22, 2015
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Qualcomm says it will cut jobs, update its board and review its business structure options as part of an effort to improve its performance.
Business
Jul 22, 2015
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One of the sensors that will fly aboard NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S was recently given a clean bill of health from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The sensor, known as EHIS, was successfully ...
Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2015
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The benefits people reap from nature - or the harm they can suffer from natural disasters - can seem as obvious as an earthquake. Yet putting numbers to changes in those ecosystem services and how human well-being is affected ...
Environment
Jul 22, 2015
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Apple shares took a bruising Wednesday following a disappointing quarterly report, while an analyst report showed the US tech giant's freshly launched smartwatch rules the growing market.
Business
Jul 22, 2015
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Animal populations on islands tend to develop weird traits over time, becoming big (like Galapagos tortoises) or small (like extinct dwarf elephants) or losing the ability to fly (like the flightless parrots of New Zealand).
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2015
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