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Breaking news from your Fast Company editors with updates all day. Vodafone, one of Europe's biggest and most powerful cell phone networks, has this morning spent a whopping £1 billion ($1.7 billion) to buy Cable & Wireless, an operator that has significant land-line assets and a business-centric portfolio. The deal catapults Vodafone into still more market dominance, since it now has a cable distribution network in addition to its extensive wireless one, and hooks the firm up to long-tail revenues from enterprise broadband buyers.

Scientists have long been interested in the relation between a nose’s form and its function. New research is showing that climate may have played an important role in how the nose’s internal structure evolved.

Until recently, migration patterns, such as those adopted by birds all across the Amazonian rainforest, have not been thought to play an important role in the spreading of beneficial genes through a population.

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The concept of time as a way to measure the duration of events is not only deeply intuitive, it also plays an important role in our mathematical descriptions of physical systems. For instance, we define an object’s speed as its displacement per a given time