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Open yachts feature exactly what their name suggests: big, open spaces for relaxing and sunning.

Open yachts feature exactly what their name suggests: big, open spaces for relaxing and sunning. Atlantis takes the open yacht concept even further with its new Atlantis 58 flagship.

I just read and enjoyed Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science , a new book by Michael Nielsen, recently reviewed by Bora Zivkovic . The book tells how science is undergoing a revolution where new global online collaborations face off against secretive old-school researchers and profit-hungry journal publishers. It urges scientists to fight for open access and open science a call to action made more poignant by recent events

Ever wander through a supermarket and past the open refrigerated cases that house cream cheese, butter and OJ? The refrigerated shelves are protected by jets of air that blow across the front. These jets form an air shield to keep the warm air out.

(Reuters) - The American eel, a freshwater fish native to the eastern United States that is born and dies in the open ocean, may be at risk of extinction because of climate change, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Wednesday. The agency, which is considering a petition to add the eel to its official list of endangered species, said new scientific evidence, including "statistically significant long-term" declines in the stock of young eels, suggested the snake-like species is in enough peril to warrant federal protection.

The green-and-gold carriages of the Eastern & Oriental Express lumbered out of Bangkok’s Hua Lamphong station, picking up speed only gradually, allowing passengers in the open-air observation car time to watch the sun set in the distance. From Bangkok, the train always used to head straight to Singapore, but in ...

By John Whitfield of Nature magazine A study of open-access publishing--published last week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE --has found that the number of papers in freely accessible journals is growing at a steady 20% per year ( M. [More]

In the search to help patients with Progeria, a disorder that causes accelerated aging, scientists have uncovered what makes us age over time. Will this open the door for true anti-aging treatments? Wyatt Andrews reports

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an amazing display of lights and sounds, the Open Spark Project and the Tesla Orchestra, formed from researchers at Case Western Reserve University, have taken Tesla coils to a whole new level. Their new Tesla Orchestra uses Tesla coils to covert music into an amazing display of lightning and sound.