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* Los Alamos lab and town nearby evacuated * 20,000 barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste on site [More]
Read More »Mills reaches men’s Public Links quarters
Qualifying medalist Corbin Mills advanced to the U.S. Amateur Public Links quarterfinals Thursday, beating NCAA champion John Peterson and Talor Gooch on Bandon Dunes' Old Macdonald course.
Read More »Lindau Nobel Meeting–The future of biomedicine
The future of medicine is contained in 'The Four Ps': Personalised, Predictive, Preventative, and Participatory.
Read More »Mills reaches men’s Public Links quarters
BANDON, Ore. (AP) - Qualifying medalist Corbin Mills advanced to the U.S.
Read More »Scott matches Haas at AT&T
PGT: Adam Scott made a couple of long birdie putts and hit a 5-iron within 2 feet for birdie on the 14th hole on his way to a 4-under 66 on Thursday to share the AT&T National first-round lead with Hunter Haas.
Read More »Laureate Urges Next Generation to Address Population Control as Central Issue
LINDAU, Germany--A 93-year-old Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine received a standing ovation from hundreds of scientists June 30 at the end of a speech in which he urged the world's young people to take measures to control runaway population growth in order to resolve related ills that have resulted from humans' remarkable evolutionary success as a species. [More]
Read More »What Happens to Google’s Other Social Networking Efforts?
The launch of the Google+ social network casts a shadow over Google's previous efforts in this arena, including Orkut, Wave and Buzz, all of which still have active Web sites.
Read More »Social Climber: Google Challenges Facebook for Social Networking Supremacy–Again
As Friendster , MySpace and many other social-networking sites have discovered, a successful business finds a niche that draws in a large number of users and offers intriguing, easy-to-use services that keep those users interested. Whereas Facebook , LinkedIn and Twitter have excelled at this formula, Google's efforts in this area-- Buzz (2010), Wave (2009) and Orkut (2004)--have faltered. The search-engine giant hopes its search is over with this week's introduction of the new Google+ ( Google Plus ) network
Read More »Apple’s Smartphone Market Share Grows As Android Stalls Out
The U.S. cellphone market has just turned a very significant corner, ccording to Nielsen: The majority of new phones being sold are, for the first time, smartphones
Read More »Nobelist Christian de Duve Compares Good And Better Brains
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Read More »Project MonarchHealth
Help scientists better understand host-parasite interactions in monarch butterflies [More]
Read More »PGT: Green, Storm share French Open lead
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Read More »What Makes Them Go Boom? Our Favorite Explainers on the Science of Fireworks
Staring up as cascades of colorful light bloom noisily from the dark sky--that's how many Americans will conclude their Independence Day. Behind the pretty image, however, fireworks rely on basic physical and chemical principles. So just how do fireworks work
Read More »Flake Effect: Airplanes Can Trigger Snowfall around Airports
Anyone who has ever seen a streaky line of vapor, known as a contrail, behind a high-flying aircraft knows that airplanes can produce their own clouds. But in rarer cases aircraft can also punch round holes or carve long channels through existing, natural clouds
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