A new front in the war against online advertising has opened up with the official release of Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 9. The most contentious feature was the ability for the mobile version of Safari to ...
Internet
Sep 22, 2015
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Caltech geochemist Clair Patterson (1922–1995) helped galvanize the environmental movement 50 years ago when he announced that highly toxic lead could be found essentially everywhere on Earth, including in our own bodies—and ...
Environment
Sep 22, 2015
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Oceanographers from The University of Western Australia have discovered Fremantle has one of the highest occurrences of meteorological tsunamis (meteotsunamis) in the world.
Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2015
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On September 25 world leaders will meet in New York to formalise the new Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals will guide efforts to reduce poverty and increase well-being, without destroying the Earth. The Conversation ...
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2015
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Are they our evil overlords, or our personal servants? Another possibility altogether is that they're our dependable co-workers, helping us put together that new Ikea bookcase.
Robotics
Sep 22, 2015
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Techniques such as modifying genes with fluorescent proteins have enabled microscopic images with single-molecule resolution, but MIT researchers are extending techniques designed for acquiring static images to capturing ...
General Physics
Sep 22, 2015
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A new smartphone application is currently being tested by the University of Melbourne to gather accurate travel and activity data.
Software
Sep 22, 2015
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In the months leading to the perihelion of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Rosetta scientists have been witnessing dramatic and rapid surface changes on the Imhotep region, as reported in a paper to be published in Astronomy ...
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2015
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Among Malcolm Turnbull's first words as the newly elected leader of the Liberal Party, and hence heading for the Prime Minister's job, were: "The Australia of the future has to be a nation that is agile, that is innovative, ...
Software
Sep 22, 2015
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Researchers from five laboratories and a private company recently spent two days in blistering 100 degree heat testing radiation detection technologies amidst cargo containers.
General Physics
Sep 22, 2015
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