Could Apple’s media event Tuesday at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters possibly live up to the hype preceding it? Put it this way: if you’re an Apple fan you’ll probably love the tweaks that the company has made to iOS5 to better integrate the iPhone and iPad and their apps.
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1st place winner: Portrait of a green lacewing larva (20X) by the inimitable Igor Siwanowicz While science journalists’ attention remains focused on the Nobel prizes, another set of awards- rather diminutive in scope- were also released this morning. [More]
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Another storm has come and gone, and as the cleanup gets started another series of cities sends armies of people with clipboards out to survey, assess, reach out. [More]
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Okay, so we all had a swell time: the floor starts jiggling like a jello-mold, and those of us who didn’t run outside ran to Twitter, and it was on.
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A note from the Editor in Chief: Scientific American is celebrating its 166th year. [More]
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BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and other instant communication platforms have helped to fuel riots and find missing persons this week in some major UK cities. [More]
Read More »Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the Electrascore
Yesterday, baseball fans celebrated Opening Day of the 2011 season. In honor of that, I wanted to share an impressive and interesting invention featured in the September 28, 1912, issue of Scientific American : the Nokes Electrascore. [More]
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