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Half of Euro online travel purchases legally unsafe: EU

Technology / Internet

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than half of all people who buy flights, hotel rooms and hire cars online risk being left without compensation if companies fail under outdated law, the EU said Thursday.


Measuring distances in microseconds

Measuring distances in microseconds

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Standard laser devices are fast enough for measuring the size of a room, but they need to be faster for outdoor mobile applications. Researchers have brought these scanners up to speed -- ...


CDC warns: Holiday could bring more swine flu (AP)

CDC warns: Holiday could bring more swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Let us give thanks - and pass the Purell. Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. Swine flu may also be on the table - and at crowded airports and shopping ...


North Pole wolf emails locations to researchers

North Pole wolf emails locations to researchers

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In July the scientists, one from the United States, the other from Canada, put the satellite collar on Brutus, the leader of his wolf pack, on remote Ellesmere Island, only 600 miles from the North Pole. Their ...


Road trains may be coming soon to Europe

Road trains may be coming soon to Europe (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 23

(PhysOrg.com) -- Road trains linking vehicles together in a traveling convoy are planned for Europe. With only the lead vehicle being actively driven, the road trains would allow commuters to sleep, read a ...


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Well-traveled wasps provide hope for vanishing species

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

They may only be 1.5mm in size, but the tiny wasps that pollinate fig trees can travel over 160km in less than 48 hours, according to research from scientists at the University of Leeds. The fig wasps are transporting ...


Immediate, aggressive spending on HIV/AIDS could end epidemic

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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

Money available to treat HIV/AIDS is sufficient to end the epidemic globally, but only if we act immediately to control the spread of the disease. That was the conclusion of a study just published in the open-access journal, ...


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New York Times publishes 'crowd-funded' article

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance ...


GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep.


Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas

Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas

Biology / Ecology

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

Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife ...



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