News tagged with world war i

History's Forgotten Fallen

(PhysOrg.com) -- History researcher conducts ground-breaking investigation into neglected World War I battle.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Apology for human rights abuses has precedent in US

A growing global movement to apologize and make restitution to victims of human rights abuses is now gathering steam in the United States, but it won't be a first for the country, says the president of The Western History ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Uncovering secrets from beyond the grave

The tools of his trade range from earthmovers and shovels to the finest brushes, surgical tweezers and dentists' mirrors -- and his job is to uncover secrets from beyond the grave.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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




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Murdoch firm settles 9 more hacking lawsuits

(AP) -- Rupert Murdoch's News International has settled nearly all the cases against the company in the first wave of lawsuits for phone hacking by its journalists, with a new round of apologies and payouts ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life

(AP) -- Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. For most people, that word means something malicious - shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Warning of unrest, new study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Authors of new book reveal the artist behind architect Le Corbusier

The exhaustive research carried out by the authors provides valuable new insight into the aesthetic principles of Le Corbusier during the post World-War-II period.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Trial by fire: A landscape-scale experiment in restoring Ozark glades

A giant experiment is under way at the Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis' 2,000-acre outdoor laboratory for ecosystem studies.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO

Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever. The social networking giant with nearly 1 billion users is expected to file papers any day now to sell stock to the public. The timing stems partly from federal rules that would ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Review: Fresh stories propel 'The Old Republic'

(AP) -- How do you make that familiar galaxy far, far away fresh again? Take it back to an even longer time ago. Way back. Well before Vader, Luke, Leia, Yoda and especially Jar Jar. More than 3,000 years ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New approach to combat intractable bacterial infections

(Medical Xpress) -- Bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz specializes in developing antimicrobial technologies that one day may help replace antibiotics—and save lives—as the power of our antibiotics ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sri Lanka donates eyes to the world

(AP) -- At 10:25 a.m., a dark brown eye was removed from a man whose lids had closed for the last time. Five hours later, the orb was staring up at the ceiling from a stainless steel tray in an operating ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Fear gone viral

If you were paying attention to the flap over two recent flu experiments involving ferrets, you may have come away with the impression that scientists all but waved a red flag in front of terrorists and said, "Here's a perfect ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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