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Bangladesh doubles wildlife sanctuary to save its tigers
Bangladesh has more than doubled the size of the wildlife sanctuary in the world's largest mangrove forest to try to protect endangered Bengal tigers whose numbers have fallen sharply, officials said Tuesday.
Virgin America computer systems hacked
Alaska Airlines says it is taking precautions including requiring employees to change their passwords after Virgin America's computer systems were hacked.
Predicting the properties of subatomic particles using large scale computer simulations
Predicting the properties of subatomic particles before their experimental discovery has been a big challenge for physicists. In a recent paper published on 28 July in Physical Review Letters Nilmani Mathur from the Tata ...
Citizen science volunteers driven by desire to learn
People who give up their time for online volunteering are mainly motivated by a desire to learn, a new study has found.
Apple ordered to pay $506M in Wisconsin patent infringement
A judge has ordered computer-maker Apple Inc. to pay more than $506 million in a patent infringement case brought by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation after the two sides agreed on final damages.
Nielsen to count viewers for Hulu, YouTube live TV services
Rhino poaching dips slightly in South Africa
The number of rhinos killed for their horns by poachers in South Africa dipped slightly in the first half of this year, but more than 500 were still slaughtered, the government announced Monday.
Hackers had access to millions of Social Security numbers
Hackers who breached a Kansas Department of Commerce data system in March had access to more than 5.5 million Social Security numbers in 10 states, along with another 805,000 accounts that didn't include the Social Security ...
Probability that the quantum world obeys local realism is less than one in a billion, experiment shows
(Phys.org)—Physicists have reported some of the strongest evidence yet that that the quantum world does not obey local realism by demonstrating new evidence for the existence of quantum entanglement. By performing an essentially ...
