Volkswagen brought some reporters to Europe recently to talk about green cars, and then spent much of the trip deriding the whole concept of battery vehicles. I drove a prototype electric Golf (with 26.5 kilowatt-hours of ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 1, 2012
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Digg, the once high-flying social news site, relaunched Wednesday under new ownership after a six-week rebuilding.
Internet
Aug 1, 2012
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Hewlett-Packard declared victory Wednesday in a legal dispute in which it accused business software titan Oracle of reneging on a contract to use HP servers.
Business
Aug 1, 2012
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Mobile online advertising spending is expected to jump 62 percent worldwide in 2012, with the United States overtaking Japan as the top market, a research firm said Wednesday.
Business
Aug 1, 2012
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NASA's Aqua satellite spotted some very cold, high, thunderstorms around the center of a tropical low pressure area in the Atlantic Ocean today, indicating that the system is getting stronger and more organized.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2012
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NASA's Terra satellite captured two tropical cyclones on visible imagery today, August 1 as they head for landfall. Typhoon Saola is approaching Taiwan and Typhoon Damrey approaching southern Japan, are both headed for landfall ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2012
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Scientists at the Smithsonian and their colleagues have discovered a new mechanism of animal mating plug production. In the giant wood spider Nephila pilipes, a highly sexually dimorphic and polygamous species, many small ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2012
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A study by a University of Iowa economist finds that many car race fans do, indeed, watch NASCAR races because they want to see car wrecks, but more of them have been tuning in to see who actually wins the race since the ...
Social Sciences
Aug 1, 2012
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Widespread skin cancer has been identified for the first time in wild marine fish populations, new research has shown.
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities, such as the combustion of fossil fuels for energy and transportation, and it is widely accepted that it is one of the primary greenhouse ...
Polymers
Aug 1, 2012
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