Pinterest pinning ads to digital bulletin board
Pinterest on Monday said it will soon start pinning ads to its popular online bulletin boards.
Internet
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Scientists find a molecular clue to the complex mystery of auxin signaling in plants
Wikipedia lists 65 adjectives that botanists use to describe the shapes of plant leaves. In English (rather than Latin) they mean the leaf is lance-shaped, spear-shaped, kidney-shaped, diamond shaped, arrow-head-shaped, egg-shaped, ...
Biotechnology
Mar 24, 2014
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Researchers take mathematical route to fighting viruses
Mathematicians at the University of York have joined forces with experimentalists at the University of Leeds to take an important step in discovering how viruses make new copies of themselves during an infection.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 24, 2014
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Researchers see Kelvin wave on quantum 'tornado' for first time
A spinning tornado of very cold liquid helium obeys the laws of quantum mechanics. Sometimes, two quantum tornadoes flex into curved lines, cross over and form an X, swap ends, and then retract—a process called reconnection. ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 24, 2014
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Ancient Indonesian climate shift linked to glacial cycle
Using sediments from a remote lake, researchers from Brown University have assembled a 60,000-year record of rainfall in central Indonesia. The analysis reveals important new details about the climate history of a region ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2014
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Studying photosynthesis, from outer space
Plants convert energy from sunlight into chemical energy during a process called photosynthesis. This energy is passed on to humans and animals that eat the plants, and thus photosynthesis is the primary source of energy ...
Environment
Mar 24, 2014
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Hunt for an 'unidentified electron object'
New research sheds light on the nature of 'unidentified electron objects'—a mysterious class of objects that exists in superfluid helium at low temperature.
Quantum Physics
Mar 24, 2014
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EU slaps seafood trade ban on Belize, Cambodia, Guinea
In its toughest move yet to eradicate illegal fishing, the European Union on Monday blacklisted Belize, Cambodia and Guinea, effectively banning their products from the world's most valuable seafood market.
Ecology
Mar 24, 2014
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Fusion reactor wall manages unexpected shielding against extreme heat loads
Researchers of the FOM Institute DIFFER[ have discovered that the wall material of a fusion reactor can shield itself from high energy plasma bursts. The wall material tungsten seems to expel a cloud of cooling hydrogen particles ...
General Physics
Mar 24, 2014
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France opens criminal probe into air pollution
French prosecutors have opened a preliminary probe after an environmental group filed a criminal complaint over this month's spike in air pollution, a judicial source said Monday.
Environment
Mar 24, 2014
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