Thick black puddles and a looted, leaking ruin are all that remain of the Thar Jath oil treatment facility, once a crucial part of South Sudan's mainstay industry.
Environment
Mar 3, 2015
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UCLA life scientists have created an accurate new method to identify genetic markers for many diseases—a significant step toward a new era of personalized medicine, tailored to each person's DNA and RNA.
Biotechnology
Mar 3, 2015
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Lightning-quick downloads, driverless cars and remote surgery: telecom firms are racing to develop a new generation of "5G" mobile networks that could start to change the world in five years.
Telecom
Mar 3, 2015
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The head of the Federal Communications Commission is taking the defense of new Internet regulations on the road.
Telecom
Mar 3, 2015
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Starting a new business is challenging under the best of circumstances, but for female entrepreneurs, the uphill battle can be particularly steep.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2015
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Frenzy, frustration and disappointment are what home buyers have come to dread about real estate bidding wars.
Economics & Business
Mar 3, 2015
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25
An analysis of buildings tagged red and yellow by structural engineers after the August 2014 earthquake in Napa links pre-1950 buildings and the underlying sedimentary basin to the greatest shaking damage, according to one ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 3, 2015
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28
Like the lost little puppy that wanders too far from home, astronomers have found an unusually small and distant group of stars that seems oddly out of place. The cluster, made of only a handful of stars, is located far away, ...
Astronomy
Mar 3, 2015
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Researchers at the University of Houston have created a new thermoelectric material, intended to generate electric power from waste heat - from a vehicle tailpipe, for example, or an industrial smokestack - with greater efficiency ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 3, 2015
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While studying a ground-nesting bird population near El Reno, Okla., a University of Oklahoma-led research team found that stress during a severe weather outbreak of May 31, 2013, had manifested itself into malformations ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2015
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