Digital music service Beats Music to launch in Jan
Beats Music, the digital music spinoff of headphone maker Beats Electronics LLC, is set to launch in January.
Internet
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Building better high-speed robots with the help of cockroaches
Love them or hate them, cockroaches are notoriously good escape artists and can flee at astonishing speeds. However, this speed can make it difficult to sense the world around them: 'When animals move slowly they rely mostly ...
Engineering
Dec 4, 2013
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Communicating at a katydid's jungle cocktail party
As darkness descends upon the tropical rainforests of Malaysia, male chirping katydids of the Mecopoda complex are just getting warmed up for their usual nightly concerts to woo the females. These nocturnal suitors are favoured ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2013
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Icahn steps up pressure for Apple share buyback
Activist investor Carl Icahn on Wednesday stepped up pressure on Apple to boost its share repurchase plan with a formal proposal to the tech giant's board of directors.
Business
Dec 4, 2013
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Study finds crocodiles are cleverer than previously thought
Turns out the crocodile can be a shrewd hunter himself. A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researcher has found that some crocodiles use lures to hunt their prey.
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2013
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Researchers present a new method of wirelessly recharging medical device batteries with ultrasound
Human beings don't come with power sockets, but a growing numbers of us have medical implants that run off electricity. To keep our bionic body parts from powering down, a group of Arizona researchers is developing a safe, ...
General Physics
Dec 4, 2013
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Cassini spacecraft obtains best views of Saturn hexagon
(Phys.org) —NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn's north pole.
Space Exploration
Dec 4, 2013
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Humans not smarter than animals, just different, experts say
(Phys.org) —Humans have been deceiving themselves for thousands of years that they're smarter than the rest of the animal kingdom, despite growing evidence to the contrary, according to University of Adelaide experts in ...
Evolution
Dec 4, 2013
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Multi-dog study points to canine brain's reward center
After capturing the first brain images of two alert, unrestrained dogs last year, researchers at Emory University have confirmed their methods and results by replicating them in an experiment involving 13 dogs.
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2013
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New fossil species found in Mozambique reveals new data on ancient mammal relatives
In the remote province of Niassa, Mozambique, a new species and genus of fossil vertebrate was found. The species is a distant relative of living mammals and is approximately 256 million years old. This new species belongs ...
Archaeology
Dec 4, 2013
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