Online craft market Etsy files for IPO
Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, has filed for a stock offering to raise at least $100 million.
Business
Mar 5, 2015
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Thomas Edison's 'lost' idea: A device to hear the dead
One of Thomas Edison's little-known ambitions was to build a device to hear the voices of the dead, according to a nearly lost chapter of the inventor's memoirs which is being republished in France this week.
Other
Mar 5, 2015
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Space technology investigates large-scale changes to Africa's climate
An international research team led by the University of Leicester has mapped the entire African continent south of the Sahara for geographical changes – and has discovered that many areas receive drastically different amounts ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2015
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Breakthrough in energy harvesting could power life on Mars
Martian colonists could use an innovative new technique to harvest energy from carbon dioxide thanks to research pioneered at Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Engineering
Mar 5, 2015
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New imaging technique finds formation of aluminum alloys to blame for next-gen battery failures
Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Maryland, and Sandia National Laboratories, have for the first time imaged the inner workings of experimental solid-state ...
Materials Science
Mar 5, 2015
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Network science tools show that spices in Indian cuisine make meals much less likely to have common flavored ingredients
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology has found that unlike western cuisine, ingredients in Indian food are less likely to have flavors in common. In their paper uploaded to the preprint ...
Five business models for urban farming
There is good money to be made in urban farming. Wageningen UR research into business models found five different options and showed how smart urban farmers can best choose for a combination.
Other
Mar 5, 2015
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Study finds significant facial variation in pre-Columbian South America
A team of anthropology researchers has found significant differences in facial features between seven different pre-Columbian peoples they evaluated from what is now Peru – disproving a longstanding perception that these ...
Archaeology
Mar 5, 2015
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A new way to control information by mixing light and sound
For once, slower is better in a new piece of technology.
General Physics
Mar 5, 2015
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Researchers take to the skies to assess infrastructure damage
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become increasingly popular over the last half dozen years or so among amateur aeronautical aficionados, engineers and generally anyone fascinated with relatively inexpensive ...
Engineering
Mar 5, 2015
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