(AP) — The New York Times started a Chinese-language website Thursday that generated so much interest in China two of its microblog accounts drew thousands of followers and then were apparently taken offline for several ...
Internet
Jun 28, 2012
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(AP) — The record 9,000 shareholders that packed Sony's annual meeting was no cause for celebration. After four years of losses and a halving of the share price, some angry investors doubt even a new CEO can pull the ...
Business
Jun 28, 2012
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A team is developing a rover-based computer system that can identify geologically relevant elements in a camera scene.
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2012
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The Secure Shell, or SSH, is a popular program that lets computer users log onto remote machines. Software developers use it for large collaborative projects, students use it to work from university servers, customers of ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 28, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- As human encroachment continues to shrink the habitable area for other animal species, a new study suggests that associated extinctions may be more severe than previously thought.
Ecology
Jun 28, 2012
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Voters of all political stripes tend to reward Presidents for federal spending in their areas, new research shows.
Social Sciences
Jun 28, 2012
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Support for welfare policies goes up when economic difficulties strike higher up the social scale, new research shows.
Social Sciences
Jun 28, 2012
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Six Arizona State University students spent a week in June conducting airborne research in low gravity under the guidance of scientists and engineers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Johnson Space ...
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2012
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The market for membranes, porous materials used mainly to filter liquids, is booming. However, their design leaves room for improvement. Taking their inspiration from cellular membranes, French researchers from the Institut ...
Materials Science
Jun 28, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- With metabolically engineered microorganisms hungry for levulinic acid rather than sugar, a UW-Madison chemical and biological engineer aims to create more sustainable, cost-effective processes for converting ...
Biochemistry
Jun 28, 2012
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