Helpful or creepy? Overpersonalized Web sites may spook shoppers
Michael Redding describes the get-to-know-you game between man and machine as a version of "Name That Tune."
Internet
Dec 10, 2009
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Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes: Is speciation adaptive?
Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation. New ...
Ecology
Nov 26, 2009
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Caught in the act: Scientists find butterflies splitting into two species
(PhysOrg.com) -- Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who've found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species.
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2009
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Xerox in $6B deal to expand tech services business
(AP) -- Xerox Corp. said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for $6.4 billion in cash and stock, joining the expensive race among technology companies to broaden their offerings.
Business
Sep 28, 2009
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The UK's 'taste dialects' defined for the first time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Where we are born not only determines how we speak but also how we taste our food and drink.
Other
Jun 19, 2009
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Tropics are a boon for baby girls
Couples hoping for a baby girl might be best advised to go and live in Africa, if a study published on Wednesday is correct.
Other
Apr 1, 2009
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Sea Otters' Diet is Clue to Slow Recovery
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Davis researchers trying to understand the sea otter's slow recovery in California have found an important clue: Some sea otters feed almost exclusively on animals that raise their risk of being infected ...
Feb 12, 2009
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Tiny lasers get a notch up
Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical results, ...
General Physics
Jan 22, 2009
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