Your guide to trying on, ordering Apple Watch
Buying an Apple Watch won't be as simple as walking into an Apple store and handing over your credit card.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 9, 2015
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LinkedIn buys education site lynda.com for $1.5 bn
The career social network LinkedIn said Thursday it was buying the online learning site lynda.com in a cash-stock deal valued at $1.5 billion.
Business
Apr 9, 2015
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Video: How can you see an atom?
Since ancient Greek times, philosophers and scientists have pondered the atom. For a couple thousand years, humans could only speculate on the structure and other properties of the smallest unit of matter. It wasn't until ...
Other
Apr 9, 2015
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Road salt guidelines need review to protect food chain in lakes, study finds
Salt used for winter road maintenance in Canada could wipe out water flea populations that keep our lakes clear of algae and feed the fish, a recent York University study has revealed.
Environment
Apr 9, 2015
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Researchers track the toxicity of Lake Erie cyanobacterial blooms
Efforts to reduce the amount of phosphorus and other nutrients washing off farm fields and into Lake Erie shifted into overdrive after high levels of a bacterial toxin shut down the drinking water supply to more than 400,000 ...
Environment
Apr 9, 2015
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A revealing new look at the secretive black tinamou
After decades in ornithological obscurity, one of the world's least-known birds is finally coming to light thanks to the persistence of a small group of researchers. Pablo Negret, Oscar Garzón, Pablo Stevenson, and Oscar ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 9, 2015
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In learning, communication overrides the 'statistics' of events
It is cultural transmission - the ability to pass knowledge on from one individual to another even across generations - that makes us unique among animals. True, we also learn by observing what happens in the world around ...
Social Sciences
Apr 9, 2015
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DARPA seeks to create software systems that could last 100 years
As modern software systems continue inexorably to increase in complexity and capability, users have become accustomed to periodic cycles of updating and upgrading to avoid obsolescence—if at some cost in terms of frustration. ...
Software
Apr 9, 2015
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Shark attacks are so unlikely, but so fascinating
Sharks are incredibly unlikely to bite you. They're even less likely to kill you. However, we remain fascinated with their ability – and occasional proclivity – to do just that. With so many things more likely to harm ...
Ecology
Apr 9, 2015
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NOAA to explore depths of Caribbean Sea
Beginning April 10, scientists aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer will begin a series of 20 dives to investigate previously unseen depths of the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean – and the public can follow along online.
Earth Sciences
Apr 9, 2015
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