Site of Special Scientific Interest
hideA Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon them, including National Nature Reserves, Ramsar Sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation.
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Social networking changing the way we travel
Dec 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Isahrai Azaria is heading to Austin, Texas, in February, and thanks to Facebook, she already has 40 acquaintances, an invitation to go water tubing, and a line on the best vegetarian lunch place in ...
Web site runs elaborate Secret Santa gift exchange
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- 'Tis the season for heart-melting tales of spontaneous good will among strangers, which, like the rest of our relationships, has gotten a lot more convenient since the advent of the Internet.
First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Project Paphlagonia is the first fully published multi-period archaeological and historical survey of the little explored region of north-central Turkey. Today this region includes the provinces ...
Studying hair of ancient Peruvians answers questions about stress
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent studies show that one in three Canadians suffer from stress and the number is on the rise. But stress isn't a new problem.
Researcher uses bacteria to make radioactive metals inert
Sep 08, 2009 |
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The Lost Orphan Mine below the Grand Canyon hasn't produced uranium since the 1960s, but radioactive residue still contaminates the area. Cleaning the region takes an expensive process that is only done in ...
Swedish service performs your last online wishes
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sunniva Geertinger was devastated when her boyfriend took his life early this year.
Craigslist founder says eBay reneged on promises
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The founder of the online classifieds site Craigslist says he began having concerns with eBay shortly after the online auction site took a minority stake in his company.
eBay fined in France for selling upscale perfumes
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million ($2.5 million) by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands like Christian Dior, Guerlain, Givenchy and ...
EBay official: Employees shared Craigslist data
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Employees of Internet auction site eBay shared confidential information gained from Craigslist with other employees developing eBay's own online classifieds business, an eBay executive said Wednesday.
Congress weighs landmark change in Web ad privacy
Sep 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, the personal details we reveal on social networking pages - all of this can give companies ...
Hand axes in Europe nearly a million years old: study
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Early humans used two-sided stone axes in Europe up to 900,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday.
MRSA leads to worse outcomes, staggering expenses for surgical patients
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Post-surgical infections significantly increase the chance of hospital readmission and death and cost as much as $60,000 per patient, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers who conducted the largest study ...
NASA Launches Web Site for Teenagers That Want More Class
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has launched a new Web site created specifically for teenagers that provides teens access to current NASA spacecraft data for use in school science projects, allows them to conduct real experiments with ...
NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.
Scorpion venom with nanoparticles slows spread of brain cancer
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 16, 2009 |
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By combining nanoparticles with a scorpion venom compound already being investigated for treating brain cancer, University of Washington researchers found they could cut the spread of cancerous cells by 98 ...
