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This was a bad week for Intuit. But, it was even worse for employees who count on Intuit's Quickbooks payroll services to process their direct deposit paychecks via the cloud. Unfortunately, the "cloud" had an outage just in time for the first of the month

By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine An international group of physicists has found a way of measuring both the position and the momentum of photons passing through the double-slit experiment, upending the idea that it is impossible to measure both properties in the lab at the same time. In the classic double-slit experiment, first done more than 200 years ago, light waves passing through two parallel slits create a characteristic pattern of light and dark patches on a screen positioned behind the slits.

How does Facebook Places stack up against Foursquare ? It's a question many have wondered since the world's largest social network jumped into the check-in game

We all know how to get to Carnegie Hall: practice. The same holds true for a range of goals--from improving a golf swing to giving a good presentation.

More than 30 years after 50 critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals ( Monachus schauinslandi ) died of suspected algal toxic poisoning, the presence of ciguatoxins in living seals has finally been confirmed through a new, noninvasive test.

For all we understand about the universe, 96 percent of what’s out there still has scientists in the dark. Astronomical observations have established that familiar matter--atoms--accounts for only 4 percent of the weight of the cosmos.

Citizen scientists observe and record data to census the world's shrinking amphibian population in the name of science and conservation [More]

The E. coli outbreak that started in Germany is getting bigger and a lot scarier.

In a point mutation, a single letter of the genetic code changes to another letter. When a protein gets made from that new code, it’ll be slightly different from usual. But new research finds that it may be fairly common for multiple mutations to happen in DNA simultaneously

A group of nuclear power experts and former regulators from 11 nations, responding to Japan's nuclear disaster, is calling for "stress tests" on the world's reactors to determine their ability to withstand extreme earthquakes, flooding or other natural disasters that strike singly or in combination.

A social network for renting and borrowing aims to bring the concept of "sharing" back into the real world. NeighborGoods , the SXSW Accelerator winner for Best Bootstrapped Startup, wants to revitalize neighborly sharing by offering communities a brilliantly practical incentive to interact: everyone else's unused stuff.

With a few supplies and some careful cutting and pasting, you can build the gravity-defying structure that won the 2010 Best Illusion of the Year Contest . Created by Japanese mathematical engineer Kokichi Sugihara, the magnetlike slopes illusion is cleverly designed to make marbles roll "uphill." It's a trick of perspective: The slopes actually tilt downward, but they are supported by leaning columns that look straight when viewed from a specific vantage point. Sugihara discovered the illusion accidentally while feeding 3-D line drawings of "impossible" objects into a computer program designed to interpret them as solid structures

Phishing is not hacking. Users were tricked more than violated ... and other lessons from yesterday's made-up story.

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - The Republic of Congo has banned the production, import, sale and use of plastic bags in a move to fight environmental pollution in the Central African nation, government spokesman Bienvenu Okiemy said Thursday. Okiemy said the government adopted a decree following a cabinet meeting Wednesday

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