The revelations that global and multinational businesses have been brokering "secret" tax deals with Luxembourg to avoid paying taxes in their home countries, may be the first time an entire country has been implicated in ...
Economics & Business
Nov 28, 2014
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A new data center in the United States is generating electricity for its servers entirely from renewable sources, converting biogas from a sewage treatment plant into electricity and water. Siemens implemented the pilot project, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 28, 2014
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If you have studied an online course at a university over the past couple of decades, you've probably already experienced a SPOC, or Small Private Online Course. SPOC is a new term for an old concept, which appears to be ...
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2014
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Consider a standard pizza box containing a standard circular pizza. How much more would you be willing to pay for a square pizza that filled the box?
Other
Nov 28, 2014
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(Phys.org)—Teenage boys are perhaps more known for playing computer games but girls are better at making them, a University of Sussex study has found.
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2014
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Shoppers have launched into the holiday buying season and retailers are looking forward to year-end sales that make up almost 20% of their annual receipts. But as you check out at a store or click "purchase" on your online ...
Security
Nov 28, 2014
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With the number of Internet connected devices rapidly increasing, researchers from Melbourne are starting a new research program to reduce energy consumption of such devices.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 28, 2014
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"We have not seen an ice free period in the Arctic Ocean for 2,6 million years. However, we may see it in our lifetime," says marine geologist Jochen Knies. In an international collaborative project, Knies has studied the ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2014
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This image features Peru's Quelccaya ice cap, the largest in the Tropics.
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2014
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(Phys.org)—A coin-sized detector might observe gravitational waves before the giant Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), according to two Australian physicists.
General Physics
Nov 28, 2014
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