MetroPCS shareholders approve T-Mobile offer
MetroPCS Communications Inc., the country's fifth-largest cellphone carrier, says its shareholders have approved the company's takeover by No. 4 T-Mobile USA.
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Deep, permeable soils buffer impacts of crop fertilizer on Amazon streams, study finds
The often damaging impacts of intensive agriculture on nearby streams, rivers, and their wildlife has been well documented in temperate zones, such as North America and Europe. Yet a new study in an important tropical zone—the ...
Environment
Apr 24, 2013
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New LED streetlight design curbs light pollution
Streetlights illuminate the night, shining upon roadways and sidewalks across the world, but these ubiquitous elements of the urban environment are notoriously inefficient and major contributors to light pollution that washes ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 24, 2013
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Humans passing drug resistance to animals in protected Africa, study says
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered that humans are passing antibiotic resistance to wildlife, especially in protected areas where numbers of humans are limited. In the case of banded mongoose in a Botswana ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 24, 2013
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Important fertility mechanism discovered
Scientists in Mainz and Aachen have discovered a new mechanism that controls egg cell fertility and that might have future therapeutic potential. It was revealed by Professor Dr. Walter Stöcker of the Institute of Zoology ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 24, 2013
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Improving survival of pig sperm
Although U.S. cattle genetics are exported all over the world in the form of frozen semen, the same is not true for pigs because boar semen does not freeze well. In an attempt to improve semen storage and pig reproduction, ...
Other
Apr 24, 2013
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Recipe for low-cost, biomass-derived catalyst for hydrogen production
(Phys.org) —In a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of Energy & Environmental Science (now available online), researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory describe details of a low-cost, ...
Materials Science
Apr 24, 2013
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Cryogenic machining enables guaranteeing safety of aeronautic sector parts
CIC marGUNE, the Cooperative Research Centre for High-Performance Manufacture, is coordinating a line of research on cryogenic machining for developing the safety of parts for the aeronautic sector. This machining method ...
Engineering
Apr 24, 2013
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Discovery yields supertough, strong nanofibers
University of Nebraska-Lincoln materials engineers have developed a structural nanofiber that is both strong and tough, a discovery that could transform everything from airplanes and bridges to body armor and bicycles.
Nanomaterials
Apr 24, 2013
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Tinkerbella nana—a new representative from the world of fairyflies
Mymaridae, commonly known as fairyflies, are one of about 18 families of chalcid wasps. Fairyflies occur worldwide, except in Antarctica. They include the world's smallest known insect - Kikiki huna, the body length of which ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2013
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