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Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

While most of us would never willingly consume a highly endangered species, doing so might be as easy as plucking sushi from a bento box. New genetic detective work from the Sackler Institute for Comparative ...





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Beaming in on Warm Dense Matter (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created 5 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II (NDCX-II) now under construction at Berkeley Lab will deliver a high-current pulse of lithium ions to a foil target almost simultaneously, momentarily heating ...


Probing Question: Is the death penalty on the decline in America?

Probing Question: Is the death penalty on the decline in America?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 6 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In November, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed John A. Muhammad, the infamous “D.C. sniper” responsible for 10 murders seven years earlier. On the eve of his execution, a Washington Post poll found 66 ...


Shoppers with smart phones IQ squeezing retailers (AP)

Shoppers with smart phones IQ squeezing retailers

Technology / Hi Tech

created 9 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The rise of smart phones, with their go-anywhere Web access, is changing the shopping game this holiday season.


Intel faces antitrust lawsuit from FTC (AP)

Intel hit with more antitrust charges in FTC suit

Technology / Business

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission piled on new antitrust charges against Intel Corp. on Wednesday, seeking to end what it described as a decade of illegal sales tactics that have crippled rivals and kept ...


Miracle light: Can lasers solve the energy crisis?

Technology / Energy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Next year will mark the 50th birthday of the laser, one of the most productive and widely used mega-inventions of the last century. Scientists hope that 2010 also will see the launch of laser technology's greatest challenge: ...


Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s (AP)

Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Ten years ago, we would have been blown away by a cell phone with far more computing power and memory than the average PC had in 1999, along with a built-in camera and programs to manage every aspect ...


New study levels new criticisms at food industry

Medicine & Health / Health

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

A new study released Monday, Dec. 14, in Washington, D.C., criticizes the nation's food and beverage industry for failing to shift their marketing efforts aimed at children. The report said television advertising continues ...


Government overseas aid is no bar to individual giving

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Overseas development charities are highly dependent on donations from individuals. In this new study, researchers from the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Cass Business School examined how the level of donations to ...


Antarctic nations plan tough new shipping controls (AP)

Antarctic nations plan tough new shipping controls

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(AP) -- Countries that manage Antarctica plan tough new controls on ships visiting the southern oceans and the fuels they use to reduce the threat of human and environmental disasters as tourist numbers rise, ...


White, but not pure

White, but not pure

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Even the snow on Aconcagua Mountain in the Andes is polluted with PCBs. An international team of researchers detected low concentrations of these toxic, carcinogenic chlorine compounds in samples taken from ...



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