Home / Tag Archives: news (page 564)

Tag Archives: news

Feed Subscription

"Osama Bin Laden" Gets No Love On Google AdWords

"Osama Bin Laden" was tops in Google search yesterday. But not in search advertising, where not a single seller stepped into the void. Web 2.0 was alive and popping on Monday in the wake of the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed

Read More »

Echo Nest, Teaming With Rdio, Brings Next-Level Beats

What happens when you mash up an MIT spun-out music metadata company with a Skype-backed music subscription service? The future of music. A partnership has just been struck that could change the way you listen to music

Read More »

Japan Nuclear Plant Workers Set Up Fans to Cut Radiation

TOKYO (Reuters) - Workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant began putting up equipment on Tuesday to allow the start of repairs to its cooling systems, key to bringing reactors under control after they were badly damaged in the March 11 quake and tsunami. Soldiers moved to within 10 km (6 miles) of the Fukushima complex to search for those still missing following the disaster, the first time the military is conducting searches in this area since the plant began leaking radiation after the disaster hit. [More]

Read More »

iFive: Another Sony Hack, Amazon’s Tablet Details, Ubisoft’s Film Division, Intel As Apple’s Factory, Twitter Buys TweetDeck

1. Sony's woes are deepening: Sony Online Entertainment has also been breached , as well as the PSN, and over 24.6 million user accounts are affected. It's early days, but Sony thinks over 12,000 credit cards have been compromised one way or another and personal info on the millions of other users may include addresses, names, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords

Read More »

How the Illusion of Being Observed Can Make You a Better Person

Many years ago, when I was still in high school, I was extremely fond of chewing gum, especially during class hours. However, sooner or later the chewing gum would either lose its taste or I would become bored with it.

Read More »

The Start-Up Recipe

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Your start-up, Julia Child-style.

Read More »

Seas Could Rise Up to 1.6 meters by 2100

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Quickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland's ice could raise world sea levels by up to 1.6 meters by 2100, an international report showed on Tuesday. [More]

Read More »

A Thinking Person’s Diet

Dieters take note: thinking in detail about eating can reduce actual food consumption, according to a study in the December 10, 2010, issue of Science .

Read More »

Bring Science Home: How to make Oobleck

Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina and her daughters show us how to make Oobleck, a substance that's not quite liquid and not quite solid. For more fun activities to do with your kids visit scientificamerican.com/BringScienceHome.

Read More »

Bring Science Home: A message from Mariette DiChristina

Through the month of May, Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina presents Bring Science Home - a series of fun science activities parents and kids ages 6-12 can do together using household items.

Read More »
Scroll To Top