Insurers are scouring social media for evidence of fraud
Now there's another reason to be careful about what you post on Facebook: Your insurance company may be watching. Nathalie Blanchard found out the hard way.
Internet
Jan 26, 2011
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Apple's Jobs taking another medical leave
Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs announced he was taking another medical leave of absence on Monday, reviving questions about the future of the global technology powerhouse.
Business
Jan 17, 2011
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Gold nanoparticles that make leaves glow in the dark
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Taiwan think they may eventually be able to replace street lamps with trees laced with gold nanoparticles that turn their leaves into bio-light-emitting diodes.
Cyborgs needed to save species
As the growing global population continues to increase the burden on the Earth’s natural resources, some historians and scientists think humans should prepare to colonize space. The problem is, we may have to alter human ...
Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2010
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Researcher Studies How Flowers Fight Back Against Damaging Insect Visitors
Though summer's flowers appear delicate and carefree to us, in fact plants must be tough enough to defend their blossoms against antagonists including florivores and nectar robbers, that is, insects who eat, steal or destroy ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 3, 2010
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Leaves of carnivorous plants emit flower scents to attract their prey
In South-East Asia, the leaves of the carnivorous plant Nepenthes rafflesiana mimic flowers biochemically in order to trap insects.
Plants & Animals
May 7, 2010
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Making its predators tremble: Multiple defenses act synergistically in aspen
If plants did not defend themselves in some way, they would certainly be gobbled up by a whole suite of voracious predators ranging from little insects to large mammalian herbivores. Indeed, not only do plants defend themselves, ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 23, 2010
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Leaves whisper their properties through ultrasound
The water content of leaves, their thickness, their density and other properties can now be determined without even having to touch them. A team of researchers from the CSIC Institute of Acoustics and the Agri-Food Research ...
General Physics
Feb 3, 2010
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Green energy management: How plants cope with variable light conditions
Plants use energy derived from sunlight to form sugars from carbon dioxide and water by the process of photosynthesis. Recent discoveries made by a research group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany, provide ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2010
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Can a drop of water cause sunburn or fire?
To the gardening world it may have always been considered a fact, but science has never proved the widely held belief that watering your garden in the midday sun can lead to burnt plants. Now a study into sunlit water droplets, ...
Ecology
Jan 11, 2010
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