An open letter posted on Monday by Internet freedom advocates called on governments to back tough encryption of digital data to keep people's information private.
Security
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The National Science Foundation's premier data management platform for the life sciences has rebranded, shedding the project's original label of iPlant Collaborative and donning the new name CyVerse. The rebrand emphasizes ...
Other
Jan 11, 2016
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Using modern genetic approaches, a team of researchers has provided strong support for the long-standing, but hotly debated, evolutionary theory of kin selection, which suggests that altruistic behavior occurs as a way to ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2016
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Italian energy giant Enel was Monday putting the finishing touches to a corporate restructure designed to put renewables at the core of the company's strategy in a move hailed by erstwhile critic Greenpeace.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 11, 2016
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The controversial boss of ride-sharing app Uber said Monday its biggest Chinese rival is spending as much as $80 million a week or $4 billion a year on subsidies, intensifying a war of words between the bitter competitors.
Business
Jan 11, 2016
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Researchers, particularly those in the medical field, have been searching for a way to combine the properties of liquid crystallinity with those of hydrogels.
Polymers
Jan 11, 2016
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NAO, a humanoid robot described by his creators as a "little character with a unique combination of hardware and software," can read your moods, recognize your family members, and learn your preferences in music, movies, ...
Robotics
Jan 11, 2016
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Pyrethrum is a perennial, herbaceous plant grown mainly for the production of pyrethrins. Pyrethrins have insecticidal properties and are commonly used in natural and organic products as a pest control agent. Determining ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2016
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In the southeastern United States, eggplant is often produced with high levels of irrigation water and nitrogen fertilizer. Excessive irrigation rate not only wastes water and contributes to nitrogen leaching, and may also ...
Environment
Jan 11, 2016
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The domestication of dogs may have inadvertently caused harmful genetic changes, a UCLA-led study suggests.
Plants & Animals
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