Shipping map helps combat invasive species at sea
Invasive species that hitch a ride on cargo ships pose a rising threat to marine biodiversity, with the potential to inflict costs in the billions of dollars.
Invasive species that hitch a ride on cargo ships pose a rising threat to marine biodiversity, with the potential to inflict costs in the billions of dollars.
Ecology
Jan 12, 2010
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(AP) -- Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that computer hackers had tricked human-rights activists into exposing their e-mail accounts ...
Internet
Jan 12, 2010
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ReputationDefender announced on Tuesday that it has won 8.65 million dollars in venture capital backing for the company, which is devoted to protecting people's Internet personae.
Internet
Jan 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One year in to a project to save one of the UK's top sites for pondlife, amazing new species are being revealed for the first time.
Ecology
Jan 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At the 2010 Las Vegas CES, many manufactures introduced their e-reader products in the hope to spark consumer interest in the e-book market. 2010 is going to prove to be an innovative year for e-book readers ...
For her doctorate, Janicke Nordgreen has studied nociception and pain in teleost fish. Her conclusion is that it is very likely the fish feel pain.
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new kind of information processing technology inspired by chemical processes in living systems is being developed by researchers at the University of Southampton, UK.
Computer Sciences
Jan 12, 2010
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(AP) -- Carol Bartz spent much of her first year as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive rallying the troops and clearing the decks, often sounding like a salty drill sergeant as she vowed to whip the downtrodden Internet company ...
Business
Jan 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission scientists released the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system's edge in particles, solar physicists have been busy revising their ...
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site ...
Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2010
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