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China may be wising up to international condemnation of its lax copyright protection standards, as the Ministry of Culture has revealed it will "punish" local search giant Baidu for facilitating illegal music downloads.
Read More »One Year After BP Oil Spill, At Least 1.1 Million Barrels Still Missing
COCODRIE, La.-- Five million barrels of oil seems like a lot. That is approximately what spewed from the blowout at BP's Macondo well last year, about enough to fill an American football field more than 90 meters deep--and much of it has gone missing. [More]
Read More »Ice Cores from Greenland Unlock Ancient Climate Secret
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Read More »Ozone Hole May Have Caused Australian Floods
NEW YORK -- A new scientific study suggests that the severe flooding that hit northern Australia earlier this year may have not been caused by rising global temperatures induced by greenhouse gases, but rather by the hole in the ozone layer. Research published last week by scientists at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, in conjunction with partners in Canada, purports to demonstrate how the massive hole in the ozone layer of the atmosphere high above Antarctica is altering rainfall patterns in the Southern Hemisphere. The study ran in Science magazine Friday
Read More »13 foods never to feed your dog
Safe for people may not mean safe for pets, and some items on do-not-feed list might surprise you
Read More »Complete Rules of Entrepreneurship
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Entrepreneurs, defined
Read More »Too Hard For Science? A Digital Panopticon
Collecting all digital data on people could yield key insights into our nature, but violate privacy In "Too Hard For Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated.
Read More »How do Mount Athos Monks stay so healthy?
Shockingly low rate of cancer and heart disease amongst isolated followers of Christ
Read More »iFive: Nintendo Profits Tank, Lenovo’s Honeycomb Tablet, White iPhone 4 With A5, SpaceX Mars Plans, China’s Investment List
1. Nintendo has released financial data suggesting it's slipping mightily--versus last year, its net sales of $12.4 billion until March 31st are down 29%, and profits have slumped 66%
Read More »When royals go on vacation, they stick to luxury
Titled aristocracy can pick anywhere in the world for their playground, but season after season, you will find them in the same sandboxes.
Read More »Why can most people remember a color, but only a few can remember pitch?
Why can most people remember a color, but only a few can remember pitch? --David Hardie, Perth, Australia [More]
Read More »Study: Suicide rate high in some "happy" states
Researchers find some states that ranked high for residents' sense of well-being also ranked high in suicide
Read More »Fast Track to Vaccines: How Systems Biology Speeds Drug Development (preview)
Aids researchers and advocates were devastated in 2007, when a much anticipated vaccine against HIV unexpectedly failed to protect anyone in a clinical trial of 3,000 people. Even worse, the experimental inoculation, developed with money from the Merck pharmaceutical company and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, actually increased the chances that some people would later acquire HIV
Read More »Dr. No Money: The Broken Science Funding System
Ever since Johannes Kepler traipsed over half of Europe wooing aristocratic patrons, scientists have grumbled about money.
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