Verizon shareholders endorse execs' pay packages
(AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. shareholders have overwhelmingly endorsed the pay package for its top executives.
Business
May 7, 2009
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Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to nonlocal correlations, some correlations are more nonlocal than others. As the subject of study for several decades, nonlocal correlations (for example, quantum entanglement) exist between ...
Big prize for 'small science' physicist
CSIRO scientist, Dr Amanda Barnard, has been awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 2009 Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics.
Nanophysics
May 7, 2009
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The rise of oxygen caused Earth's earliest ice age
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice ages may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, ...
Earth Sciences
May 7, 2009
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Scared of social media? Read this
Almost every day we receive questions about how to use Twitter -- both from online readers and people we meet in real life. The questions have been picking up since practically every media outlet jumped on the Twitter Train ...
Internet
May 7, 2009
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Europe is about to take an astronomical lead over U.S.
The world's astronomers are about to get a trio of powerful new eyes on the sky that can see better and farther than existing space telescopes.
Astronomy
May 7, 2009
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Police, charities, even crime suspects using Twitter to get the message out
When state police Sgt. Stephen Jones wanted to track down a car involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Hackensack, he decided a Twitter update -- or a "tweet" -- would be the fastest way to reach the public.
Internet
May 7, 2009
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Prosecutors seek 3-year prison term in cyber-bullying case
Federal prosecutors are asking a federal judge to send Lori Drew to prison for three years for her role in the online harassment of a teenage girl in Dardenne Prairie, Mo., who killed herself.
Internet
May 7, 2009
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How much oil have we used?
Estimates of how much crude oil we have extracted from the planet vary wildly. Now, UK researchers have published a new estimate in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology that suggests we may have used ...
Earth Sciences
May 7, 2009
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Sniffing Out the Physical Condition of Conspecifics
To date, it has been unknown exactly how mammals are capable of sniffing out whether a conspecific is ill. The biologists Prof. Marc Spehr and Daniela Flügge are following a good lead. They have discovered that a messenger ...
Plants & Animals
May 7, 2009
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