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Take-Two posts larger 4Q loss on higher charges

Technology / Business

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Charges and expenses outweighed higher sales and drove video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. to post a wider fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, as billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn reported ...


Irrational exuberance behind recent stock gains, says finance expert

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A second straight week of stronger-than-expected third quarter earnings from a broad cross section of U.S. industries has held the nation's Dow Jones Industrial Average above the psychological benchmark of 10,000 points for ...


Q&A: What does Wall Street?s recovery mean to Main Street?

What does Wall Street's recovery mean to Main Street?

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average, among the world?s most closely watched stock indexes, closed above the 10,000-point mark last week for the first time since October 2008, a milestone that ...


Away from the financial bust, tech stocks boomed

Technology / Business

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Intel Corp. and other technology stocks helped lead the way as markets climbed out of the trough they fell into in March - even as the recession kept many big corporations and consumers sitting on their wallets instead ...


New study reveals unexpected relationship between climate warming and advancing treelines

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study reveals that treelines are not responding to climate warming as expected. The research, the first global quantitative assessment of the relationship between climate warming and treeline advance, is published in ...


Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat (AP)

Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 5

(AP) -- The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometers) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible ...


Japanese people living longer than ever: government

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Japanese people are living longer than ever, with the average life expectancy now 86.05 years for women and 79.29 years for men, the health ministry said Thursday.


Subterranean oceans on Saturn's moon Titan

Subterranean oceans on Saturn's moon Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have a subterranean ocean of hydrocarbons and some topsy-turvy topography in which the summits of its mountains lie lower than its average surface elevation, ...


Linking Climate Change in Siberia and Britain

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have for first time demonstrated a critical link between the Siberian climate and the circulation of the major current system which gives us our mild winters here in the UK. This new understanding ...


Scientists warn on climate tipping points

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (147) | comments 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- A survey of top climate scientists has revealed there is a real chance of key climate tipping points being passed with serious consequences for the planet.


Probing Question: Can we save today's documents for tomorrow?

Probing Question: Can we save today's documents for tomorrow?

Technology / Hi Tech

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Even though your grandparents’ old photo albums are yellowed and grainy, they’re still there for you and your family to enjoy. But will your grandchildren be able to say the same of the digital photo albums ...


New surgical technique shows promise for improving function of artificial arms

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A surgical technique known as targeted muscle reinnervation appears to enable patients with arm amputations to have improved control of functions with an artificial arm, according to a study in the February 11 issue of JAMA.


Global glacier melt continues

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (20) | comments 8

Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness ...


Nations that sow food crops for biofuels may reap less than previously thought

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Global yields of most biofuels crops, including corn, rapeseed and wheat, have been overestimated by 100 to 150 percent or more, suggesting many countries need to reset their expectations of agricultural biofuels to a more ...


Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking, data show

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 26, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Call her The Incredible Shrinking African-American Woman. In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, ...