Instagram closing gap with Twitter in US, survey says
Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service, has almost caught up with Twitter's number of US users.
Internet
Mar 27, 2014
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Microsoft delivers Office for rival Apple's iPad (Update)
Microsoft unveiled a version of its popular Office software suite for iPad tablets Thursday as the company's new chief moved to expand its "Internet cloud" footprint.
Software
Mar 27, 2014
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ISPs must play part in online copyright clampdown, EU court says
Internet service providers can be legally required to deny their customers access to websites which infringe copyright, a European Union court ruled on Thursday.
Internet
Mar 27, 2014
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Seasonal Arctic summer ice extent still hard to forecast, study says
(Phys.org) —Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), University College London, University of New Hampshire and University of Washington analysed 300 summer Arctic sea ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2014
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Corporate layoff strategies are increasing workplace gender and racial inequality
Research from Prof. Alexandra Kalev of Tel Aviv University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology reveals that current workplace downsizing policies are reducing managerial diversity and increasing racial and gender inequalities. ...
Social Sciences
Mar 27, 2014
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Satellite time-lapse movie shows US East Coast snowy winter
A new time-lapse animation of data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite provides a good picture of why the U.S. East Coast experienced a snowier than normal winter. The new animation shows the movement of storms from January 1 ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2014
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The multiplication of cells under close observation
A group from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, discovers a key factor that curbs the undesirable triggering of DNA replication.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 27, 2014
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Hubble Space Telescope spots Mars-bound comet sprout multiple jets
(Phys.org) —NASA released Thursday an image of a comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars—less than half the distance between Earth and our moon.
Space Exploration
Mar 27, 2014
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Foraging bats can warn each other away from their dinners
Look into the spring sky at dusk and you may see flitting groups of bats, gobbling up insect meals in an intricately choreographed aerial dance. It's well known that echolocation calls keep the bats from hitting trees and ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 27, 2014
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Scientists identify factors limiting hybridization of closely-related woodrat species
A pair of new studies from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Idaho State University, and the University of Nevada Reno look at the surprising variety of factors that prevent two closely related species of woodrats from becoming ...
Evolution
Mar 27, 2014
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