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Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world (AP)

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(AP) -- A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating ...


NOAA deploys new 'smart buoy' off Annapolis

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of "smart buoys" to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today. The buoy, located at the mouth of Severn River near Annapolis, Md., will be used by commercial ...


The bizarre lives of bone-eating worms

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The females of the recently discovered Osedax marine worms feast on submerged bones via a complex relationship with symbiotic bacteria, and they are turning out to be far more diverse and widespread than scientists expected. ...


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Norway court snubs call to block The Pirate Bay

Technology / Internet

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay.


Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which ...


Tanker spills oil in San Francisco Bay

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A ruptured fuel line on a Panamanian-registered tanker released oil into San Francisco Bay before dawn on Friday, authorities said.


A Dutch court ordered Sweden's The Pirate Bay filesharing website to remove links

Dutch court orders Pirate Bay to remove links

Technology / Internet

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A Dutch court Thursday ordered Sweden's The Pirate Bay filesharing website to remove links to works of members of a Netherlands-based music and film copyright protection group.


Screen of a computer showing a file-sharing web site

Swedish court overturns landmark file sharing ruling

Technology / Internet

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday overturned a landmark file sharing ruling that forced an Internet service provider to reveal an Internet user's identity to five publishers.


From grass to water, Chesapeake Bay experts differ on meaning of 'clean'

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

After a recent rain, Baltimore's Inner Harbor is clogged with an eclectic combination of garbage -- soda bottles and a large purple ball, sticks and dirt, candy wrappers and a hollowed-out television.


Dutch help California's Bay Area plan for sea level rise

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

How to plan for sea level rise, a still-abstract concept for many Californians, drew serious consideration from engineers, designers and urban planners from Holland and the U.S. at a symposium held on Monday.


The chief executive officer of the Swedish gaming group Global Gaming Factory (GGF), Hans Pandeya

Pirate Bay suitor served with bankruptcy petition: court

Technology / Internet

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

Pirate Bay suitor Global Gaming Factory has been served with a bankruptcy petition, a Stockholm court official said on Friday, after a former board member filed a complaint over unpaid debts.


Chesapeake Bay cleanup a local issue for Pennsylvania, expert says

Chesapeake Bay cleanup a local issue for Pennsylvania, expert says

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As federal agencies respond this month to President Barack Obama's executive order to redouble efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, the challenge in Pennsylvania is to focus on local initiatives ...


Would-be Pirate Bay buyer ousted from stock market

Technology / Business

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The would-be buyer of Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay has been kicked out of the smallcap stock exchange Aktietorget for misleading the market, the Swedish trading platform said Wednesday.


Calif. region is epicenter of U.S. nano-revolution

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The San Francisco Bay Area has become the nation's hot spot for a microscopic technology that's already being used for everything from keeping drill bits sharp to extending the usable life of cooking oil, and that one day ...


Supporters of 'The Pirate Bay' web site, one of the world's top illegal filesharing websites, demonstrate in Stockholm

Swedish regulator to Pirate Bay suitor: where's the money?

Technology / Internet

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Swedish financial regulators want Pirate Bay suitor Global Gaming Factory to reveal how it will fund its takeover of the popular download site despite GGF chief executive Hans Pandeya insisting Thursday that ...