Mysterious dwarf planet Ceres gets ready for the spotlight
The mysterious dwarf planet Ceres is ready for its close-up.
Space Exploration
Mar 5, 2015
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Can Etsy keep its folksy brand and make shareholders money?
If craft seller Etsy goes public later this year it will be a test of how well the company can balance an explicit social mission with shareholder expectations for making money.
Business
Mar 5, 2015
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Mandarin Oriental says hackers stole credit card data
Hackers broke into the Mandarin Oriental luxury hotel group's database and stole credit card information from "an isolated number" of its properties in the United States and Europe.
Security
Mar 5, 2015
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New baby orca, other discoveries made by tracking team
A new baby orca wasn't the only interesting discovery researchers made while tracking endangered killer whales.
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2015
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'Planck' puts Einstein to the test
Researchers, including physicists from Heidelberg University, have gained new insights into dark energy and the theory of gravitation by analysing data from the "Planck" satellite mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). ...
Astronomy
Mar 5, 2015
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Professor takes madness out of the month
With the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketballl Tournaments tipping off soon, brackets and bubble-busters are reaching a fever pitch. Dr. Jay Coleman, the Richard deRaismes Kip Professor of Operations Management and Quantitative ...
Mathematics
Mar 5, 2015
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Perfect NCAA bracket? Near impossible, mathematician says
The odds of picking a perfect bracket for the NCAA men's basketball March Madness championship tournament are a staggering less than one in 9.2 quintillion (that's 9,223,372,036,854,775,808), according to Jeff Bergen, mathematics ...
Mathematics
Mar 5, 2015
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New detector sniffs out origins of methane
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide in its capacity to trap heat in Earth's atmosphere for a long time. The gas can originate from lakes and swamps, natural-gas pipelines, deep-sea vents, and ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2015
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Transport molecule forms a protective structure to guide proteins to cell membrane
The molecular complex that guides an important class of proteins to correct locations in cell membranes does so by forming a dimeric structure with a protective pocket, report scientists from the University of Chicago in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 5, 2015
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Distant supernova split four ways by gravitational lens
Over the past several decades, astronomers have come to realize that the sky is filled with magnifying glasses that allow the study of very distant and faint objects barely visible with even the largest telescopes.
Astronomy
Mar 5, 2015
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