Google's AdMob attacks Apple's new mobile ad rules
(AP) -- Google Inc. thinks its increasingly bitter rival Apple Inc. is trying to muscle it out of the mobile advertising competition on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Business
Jun 9, 2010
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'Instant acid' method offers new insight into nanoparticle dispersal in the environment and the body
Using a chemical trick that allows them to change the acidity of a solution almost instantly, a team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has demonstrated a simple and effective technique for quantifying ...
Materials Science
Jun 9, 2010
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'Dark Pulse Laser' produces bursts of... almost nothing
In an advance that sounds almost Zen, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a new type of pulsed ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 9, 2010
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Oil from spill could have powered 38,000 cars (and more) for a year, researcher says
As of today (Wednesday, June 9), if all the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico had been used for fuel, it could have powered 38,000 cars, and 3,400 trucks, and 1,800 ships for a full year, according ...
Environment
Jun 9, 2010
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Expedition 24 Set for June 15 Launch to Station
The International Space Station’s Expedition 24 crew continued to make preparations Wednesday for the arrival of three additional crew members. It also worked with a variety of maintenance and science activities.
Space Exploration
Jun 9, 2010
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Solution to beading-saliva mystery has practical purposes
Researchers have discovered precisely why strands of some fluids containing long molecules called polymers form beads when stretched, findings that could be used to improve industrial processes and for administering drugs ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 9, 2010
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CH Cyg: A Close-up View of Codependent Stellar Living
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image shows the symbiotic system known as CH Cyg, located only about 800 light years from Earth. The large image shows an optical view of CH Cyg, using the Digitized Sky Survey, and the inset shows a ...
Astronomy
Jun 9, 2010
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Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs.
Space Exploration
Jun 9, 2010
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Physicists to send highest-intensity neutrino beam from Illinois to South Dakota
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's highest-intensity neutrino beam starts in Illinois and heads straight through the earth all the way to South Dakota. What does that have to do with Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island?
General Physics
Jun 9, 2010
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Discovery of 'mixer cells' could improve healing
French researchers from CNRS and Universite de Nice have recently identified cells that surprisingly change identity during embryogenesis in the Drosophila. By studying these "mixer cells" in a healing model, the scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 9, 2010
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