Apple new $1 billion investment in the Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing is as much about currying favor with regulators as directly expanding its own business, analysts said. Apple might need the help; it faces slowing ...
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A remote Alaska Volcano that erupted in March is again showing signs of life.
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May 13, 2016
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YouTube is testing a messaging feature in its smartphone app so people can share and discuss videos without resorting to other ways to connect with their friends and family.
Software
May 13, 2016
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The first captive-bred Florida Grasshopper Sparrow hatched this week under the care of researchers with Florida International University's Tropical Conservation Institute.
Plants & Animals
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One of the most effective methods for capturing carbon from the atmosphere in the tropics of Latin America requires doing very little. In fact, researchers say, just protecting natural forest regrowth can help reduce climate ...
Environment
May 13, 2016
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When you're paid to sell things, it doesn't hurt to be able to stretch the truth or prey on people's emotions once in a while. Most advertisers probably don't spend too much time thinking about karma, then, but perhaps they ...
Social Sciences
May 13, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Here's an alert for all dog lovers: Sugarless chewing gum isn't good for your pooch. In fact, it could be deadly.
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2016
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Investigators can now probe Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites as a part of background checks for security clearances—something that lawmakers said Friday was a classic case of the government playing catch-up ...
Security
May 13, 2016
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The future of movies and manufacturing may be in 3-D, but electronics and photonics are going 2-D; specifically, two-dimensional semiconducting materials.
Nanophysics
May 13, 2016
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Physicists and astronomers from the University of Texas at Arlington have used advanced astronomical software to accurately date lyric poet Sappho's "Midnight Poem," which describes the night sky over Greece more than 2,500 ...
Space Exploration
May 13, 2016
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