Smartphones boost sharing of photos, videos
Smartphones are giving a big boost to posting of photos and videos, according to a study released Monday.
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Oct 28, 2013
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Image: Many bushfires in New South Wales, Australia
NASA's Terra satellite detected dozens of bushfires continued raging in the Australian state of New South Wales, outside of Sydney. Sydney is the state capital and the most populated city in Australia.
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2013
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Social science graduates more likely to be in work than science or arts graduates, report says
Social science graduates are more likely to be in employment after their first degree than graduates in other areas such as science and the arts, and a higher proportion are in managerial and senior official roles, a new ...
Social Sciences
Oct 28, 2013
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Public wants labels for food nanotech—and they're willing to pay for it
New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Minnesota finds that people in the United States want labels on food products that use nanotechnology – whether the nanotechnology is in the food or ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 28, 2013
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A noble yet simple way to synthesize new metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction
A Korean research team from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. Korea, developed a high performance and stable metal-free electrocatalyst for ORR and the research work was published in a science ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 28, 2013
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Your pain, my gain: Feeling pleasure over the misfortune of those you envy is biological
Mina Cikara found her thesis when she wore a Boston Red Sox hat to a New York Yankees baseball game. Nicknames and vulgarities were among the souvenirs she took home. And, after hearing about the name-calling and heckling ...
Social Sciences
Oct 28, 2013
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UK man accused of hacking US government computers (Update 2)
A British man has been arrested and charged with hacking into computer systems of the U.S. Army, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies at a cost of millions of dollars to the federal government.
Internet
Oct 28, 2013
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The cyber-centipede: From Linnaeus to big data
Taxonomic descriptions, introduced by Linnaeus in 1735, are designed to allow scientists to tell one species from another. Now there is a new futuristic method for describing new species that goes far beyond the tradition. ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2013
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'Astroinformatics' helps astronomers exploring the sky
The new HITS research group "Astroinformatics" will develop methods and software for astronomers and help facilitating the analysis and processing of the rapidly growing amount of data in astronomy. The junior group led by ...
Astronomy
Oct 28, 2013
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El Nino is becoming more active
A new approach to analyzing paleo-climate reconstructions of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon resolves disagreements and reveals that ENSO activity during the 20th century has been unusually high compared ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2013
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