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Future of school textbooks written in cyberspace

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Northwest Missouri State University students started spring semester classes Monday, but many aren't lugging thick textbooks around campus.





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Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...


Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...


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Reference Genome of Maize Published (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science reveal ...


Fighting climate change by turning CO2 to stone

Fighting climate change by turning CO2 to stone

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- While politicians debate the best ways to cut global carbon dioxide emissions, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory's Center for Advanced Energy Studies are charging ahead on a strategy ...


USA Today tests online edition at colleges

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- Penn State, Indiana and Missouri are the first schools to participate in a USA Today initiative meant to test how students respond to electronic versions of printed newspapers.


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 ...


French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) team prepares to put in water the robot BOB

Underwater robot probes depths for Istanbul quake clues

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A state-of-the-art underwater robot called BOB may hold the key to protecting millions of people around Turkey's biggest city against a massive earthquake scientists say is all but inevitable.


Europe and America couldn't be more different, right? Not so fast, says historian

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marshalling data on everything from colon cancer to the accuracy of public clocks, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.


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Researchers sequence swine genome

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A global collaborative has produced a first draft of the genome of a domesticated pig, an achievement that will lead to insights in agriculture, medicine, conservation and evolution.


Geologists monitor landslide in Washington state for further movement

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It's hard to picture a bigger landslide than the one that buried a quarter-mile of Highway 410 in Yakima County, Wash., in mid-October.



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