(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils of a giant Pleistocene stork found on Flores island, Indonesia, belong to a new species according to scientists. The now extinct bird was probably flightless, and lived on the same island as Homo ...
San Francisco State University scientists are studying whether a hardworking microscopic organism that helps rid the planet of too much carbon dioxide will continue to work so well in the year 2100, when the Earth’s ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Sun can be a menace when it sends out powerful solar blasts of radiation towards the Earth. Astronomers keenly watch the Sun to learn more about what powers these solar eruptions, in hopes of being able ...
Space Exploration
Dec 8, 2010
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(AP) -- WikiLeaks published a new set of cables Wednesday, and in a defiant message posted online the secret-spilling website promised that the leaks would keep on flowing despite the arrest and jailing of its founder on ...
Internet
Dec 8, 2010
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IBM today announced that powerful new predictive analytical capabilities, constructed using intellectual property from 21 inventions, have been incorporated into its global technology services portfolio – including information ...
Software
Dec 8, 2010
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UCLA researchers have developed a matchbox-sized attachment that converts a cell phone's camera into a fluorescent microscope.
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 8, 2010
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Amazon will make its Kindle electronic books available for reading on Web browsers beginning early next year, with people's digital collections saved in the Internet "cloud."
Business
Dec 8, 2010
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A crying shop girl runs in front of a red convertible, staring down the driver as he screeches to a halt. "That Love Comes" has all the elements of Chinese television drama, only it is not on TV.
Internet
Dec 8, 2010
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When two individuals face off in conflict, the classic problem in evolutionary biology known as the prisoner's dilemma says that the individuals are not likely to cooperate even if it is in their best interests to do so. ...
Evolution
Dec 8, 2010
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Google on Tuesday opened an online shop stocked with applications tailored for its increasingly popular Chrome Web browsing software.
Software
Dec 8, 2010
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