Light-fingered chimpanzees are changing the way subsistence farmers make a living in Africa by causing them to grow different crops and spend more time guarding their goods. This is according to work performed by researchers ...
Ecology
Jun 17, 2014
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Facebook is taking another stab at ephemeral mobile messaging with an app called Slingshot.
Software
Jun 17, 2014
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One might be hidden in a cross on a church lawn. Others are disguised as a cactus in the desert, a silo in farm country or a palm tree reaching into a sunny sky.
Telecom
Jun 17, 2014
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In drought-stricken California, young Chinook salmon are hitting the road, not the river, to get to the Pacific Ocean.
Ecology
Jun 17, 2014
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A new study by scientists at the University of York has shed new light on the use of mollusc shells as personal adornments by Bronze Age people.
Archaeology
Jun 17, 2014
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(Phys.org) —When it comes to electronics, silicon will now have to share the spotlight. In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering describe how they have ...
Nanophysics
Jun 17, 2014
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In front of the Los Angeles Convention Center this week, there's a mutant strapped to the front of a bus, signaling the beginning of the sensory barrage that is the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Software
Jun 17, 2014
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Don't be so quick to judge. Most people are familiar with the "trophy wife" stereotype that attractive women marry rich men, placing little importance on their other traits, including physical appearance, and that men look ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2014
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In the middle of the night, when most Americans are sound asleep, their lights and appliances off, a power hog is wide awake and running at nearly full throttle: the boxes that operate their cable or satellite television ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 17, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Using ESA's Herschel space observatory, astronomers have discovered that a molecule vital for creating water exists in the burning embers of dying Sun-like stars.
Astronomy
Jun 17, 2014
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