FCC probing AT&T's Wednesday night 911 outage
The Federal Communications Commission says it is investigating why AT&T cellphone customers were unable to call 911 in several states on Wednesday night.
Telecom
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Airbnb valued at $31 billion in new funding round
Airbnb raised more than a billion dollars in a fresh funding round that valued the home-sharing startup at $31 billion, a source close to the company told AFP Thursday.
Business
Mar 9, 2017
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Newly discovered virus affects sex ratio of insect-killing wasps
Scientists have identified a previously unknown virus that decreases the number of female offspring of the wasps it infects, according to a PLOS Pathogens study. The virus, discovered by Gongyin Ye's group of Zhejiang University, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2017
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Why guillemot chicks leap from the nest before they can fly
Before they have the wing span to actually permit them to fly, young guillemots (also known as murres) leap hundreds of metres off towering cliffs and flutter down towards the sea, guided by their fathers. Scientists have ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2017
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How big brains evolved could be revealed by new mathematical model
A new mathematical model could help clarify what drove the evolution of large brains in humans and other animals, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology.
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2017
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Biology team makes breakthrough in synthetic yeast project
Led by Tianjin University Professor Ying-Jin Yuan, TJU's synthetic biology team has completed the synthesis of redesigned yeast chromosomes synV and synX with the two studies published in Science on March 10, 2017.
Biotechnology
Mar 9, 2017
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'Photonic doping' makes class of metamaterials easier to fabricate
The field of metamaterials, an intersection of materials science, physics, nanotechnology and electrical engineering, aims to produce structures with unusual electromagnetic properties. Through the careful combination of ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 9, 2017
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New way to tune electronic energy levels may lead to valleytronic devices
Faster, more efficient data storage and computer logic systems could be on the horizon thanks to a new way of tuning electronic energy levels in two-dimensional films of crystal, discovered by researchers at MIT.
General Physics
Mar 9, 2017
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Novel laminated nanostructure gives steel bone-like resistance to fracturing under repeated stress
Metal fatigue can lead to abrupt and sometimes catastrophic failures in parts that undergo repeated loading, or stress. It's a major cause of failure in structural components of everything from aircraft and spacecraft to ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 9, 2017
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Soils could release much more carbon than expected as climate warms
Soils could release much more CO2 than expected into the atmosphere as the climate warms, according to new research by scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Environment
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