(AP)—Barnes & Noble Inc. said Wednesday the tampering of devices used by customers to swipe credit and debit cards in 63 of its stores was a "sophisticated criminal effort" to steal information, and reiterated it's working ...
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Oct 24, 2012
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(AP)—Apple's iPad Mini will bring a lot more excitement and a little more confusion to the holiday shopping season.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 24, 2012
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How do you teach a robot to get into vehicle and drive it? Three University of Delaware professors plan to figure it out by the end of next year.
Robotics
Oct 24, 2012
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Scaling up the production of biofuels made from algae to meet at least 5 percent—approximately 39 billion liters—of U.S. transportation fuel needs would place unsustainable demands on energy, water, and nutrients, says ...
Biotechnology
Oct 24, 2012
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Crude oil is getting scarce. This is why researchers are seeking to substitute petroleum-based products - like plastics - with sustainable raw materials. Waste wood, divided into lignin and cellulose, could serve as a raw ...
Materials Science
Oct 24, 2012
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Could it be that dark matter "halos"—the huge, invisible cocoons of mass that envelop entire galaxies and account for most of the matter in the universe—aren't completely dark after all but contain a small number of stars? ...
Astronomy
Oct 24, 2012
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Just how new species are established is still one of the most central questions in biology. In an article in the leading scientific journal Nature, researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden describe how they mapped the ...
Biotechnology
Oct 24, 2012
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Researchers at Aarhus University, Denmark, made a sensational discovery almost three years ago when they measured electric currents in the seabed. It was unclear as to what was conducting the current, but the researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 24, 2012
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Televised political advertising takes up a large portion of campaigns budgets. Much of it is spent on negative political ads. But do these negative ads work? A new study by Juliana Fernandes, assistant professor of strategic ...
Social Sciences
Oct 24, 2012
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Tecnalia is developing a new constructive system for multi-storey collective dwelling buildings through cross-laminated timber panel CLT structures, together with the company EGOIN, specialized in timber industrialized construction.
Engineering
Oct 24, 2012
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