Europe launched its first space weather coordination centre Wednesday to raise the alarm for possible satellite-sizzling solar storms that also threaten astronauts in orbit, plane passengers and electricity grids on Earth.
Space Exploration
Apr 3, 2013
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Rovio, the Finnish makers of the hugely popular mobile game "Angry Birds", announced Wednesday a 57-percent rise in net profit last year, boosted by consumer product sales.
Business
Apr 3, 2013
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It's no secret that Apple wants to get into the living room by making its own TV set, and there have been plenty of rumors and reports about how and when it's going to happen.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 3, 2013
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(Phys.org) —By introducing individual silicon atom 'defects' using a scanning tunnelling microscope, scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have coupled single atoms to form quantum states.
Quantum Physics
Apr 3, 2013
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(AP)—Monsanto reported Wednesday that its income increased 22 percent in the agriculture products company's second quarter on strong sales of biotech seeds, particularly in Brazil and other emerging markets.
Business
Apr 3, 2013
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It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but scientists are pretty sure it's out there.
General Physics
Apr 3, 2013
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Imagine you have a choice to make. In one scenario, you'd get $8 and somebody else—a stranger – would get $8 too. In the other, you'd get $10; the stranger would get $12.
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2013
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Neon, the Carnegie Mellon University startup that uses cognitive neuroscience to improve online video clicks, has secured venture capital (VC) funding in a Series Seed round led by True Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 3, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the ...
Astronomy
Apr 3, 2013
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Geoscientist Michele Cooke and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst take an uncommon, "Earth is lazy" approach to modeling fault development in the crust that is providing new insights into how faults grow. ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 3, 2013
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