Nowhere today is the biodiversity of corals and reef-inhabiting fish higher than in the tropical waters around Indonesia and its neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia. "To understand the reason for this diversity, you ...
Environment
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Shrubs expanding northward into a warming Arctic - and growing taller as they did - paved the way for moose to expand their range northward too.
Ecology
May 6, 2016
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When Grace Hui moved to Los Angeles from China in 2014 and Googled the Chinese characters for "Los Angeles immigrant," the first result was Chineseinla.com.
Internet
May 6, 2016
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New Yorkers will soon have to pay for disposable plastic and paper bags in a city that consumes billions of them each year.
Environment
May 6, 2016
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The smartphone revolutionized how people live and work, but the technology world is now struggling to see what comes next.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 6, 2016
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A US judge on Thursday rejected a request by Facebook to toss out a civil suit accusing it of violating privacy with face-recognition software to help "tag" people in pictures.
Internet
May 6, 2016
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Microsoft has accepted an invitation from the UN Security Council to address a special debate next week on counter-terrorism and confronting "digital terror", UN diplomats said.
Internet
May 6, 2016
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said action on climate change must be faster and broader to turn the promises of the Paris deal on combatting global warming into concrete measures.
Environment
May 6, 2016
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British biotech company Oxitec and the Cayman Islands government announced plans Thursday to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the fight against a species that spreads Zika and other diseases.
Biotechnology
May 6, 2016
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For the second month in a row, the aerospace upstart SpaceX landed a rocket on an ocean platform early Friday, this time following the successful launch of a Japanese communications satellite.
Space Exploration
May 6, 2016
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