Retailers get creative with Pinterest
Target, Nordstrom and other big chains are literally pinning their hopes of attracting shoppers on social media.
Internet
Apr 25, 2014
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NASA image: Fires in the Yucatan Peninsula in April 2014
April is in the middle of the dry season, which runs from January through May in this region, and naturally coincides with fire season. Farmers often use fire to return nutrients to the soil and to clear the ground of unwanted ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2014
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LADEE sees zodiacal light before crashing into moon, but Apollo mystery remains
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) literally 'saw the light' just days before crashing into the lunar farside last Thursday April 17. Skimming just a few kilometers above the moon's surface, ...
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2014
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Researchers use cryo-electron microscopy to learn how DNA wraps tightly around nucleosomes
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, has used cryo-electron microscopy to reveal how it is that DNA wraps so tightly around nuclesomes. In their paper published in the ...
Spain launches radar hunt for Quixote writer Cervantes
Scientists will start scanning Monday with a radar the floor of a Madrid convent where they hope to find the body of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote".
Archaeology
Apr 25, 2014
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Molecular transporters that drive plant responses to drought and salinity
Plants employ a remarkable range of mechanisms to sense and adapt to their environment and to maintain a strict biochemical balance across cells, tissues and organs. Understanding these mechanisms is crucial to developing ...
Biotechnology
Apr 25, 2014
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A new twist in the properties of light
Light has some well-established dynamical properties that have defined our understanding of electromagnetic radiation for over a century. Two of the most fundamental of these properties are that photons of light carry momentum ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 25, 2014
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Underwater volcano creates huge floating islands of rock, disrupts shipping
A team of scientists from the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand have modelled the fate of a huge floating raft of volcanic rocks that formed in 2012 during a submarine eruption of a Pacific volcano.
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2014
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Engineering breakthrough will allow cancer researchers to create live tumors with a 3D printer
(Phys.org) —Drexel's Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa chair professor in the College of Engineering, has devised a method for 3D printing tumors that could soon be taking cancer research out of the petri dish.
Biotechnology
Apr 25, 2014
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Addition of pectin molecules strengthens silk biomaterials
The human body has limited ability to self-repair damage to cartilage or bone. Implantable 'bioscaffold' materials that can be seeded with cells can potentially be used to regenerate these critical tissues. One such biomaterial ...
Materials Science
Apr 25, 2014
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