China hits tech milestone: PC shipments pass US
(AP) -- China has passed an important technological milestone: It became the world's biggest consumer of PCs in the second quarter, according to new market research by IDC.
Business
Aug 23, 2011
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Parents, ACLU sue NJ city over Facebook records
(AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state's biggest city for refusing to release records related to a $100 million gift pledged to its schools by Facebook founder ...
Business
Aug 23, 2011
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Facebook makes sharing more selective
Facebook on Tuesday announced it is rolling out improvements aimed at letting users be more selective about who gets to see what they post at the world's largest online social network.
Internet
Aug 23, 2011
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How many species on Earth? 8.7 million
Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million).
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2011
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Landsat image maps aid fire recovery efforts
NASA satellite images regularly map active fires around the world. Once a fire is out, satellite data and maps are also used by scientists to measure and protect the scorched land, and have played an important role in streamlining ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2011
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Engineers discover nanoscale balancing act that mirrors forces at work in living systems
(PhysOrg.com) -- A delicate balance of atomic forces can be exploited to make nanoparticle superclusters that are uniform in size---an attribute that's important for many nanotech applications but hard to accomplish, University ...
Nanophysics
Aug 23, 2011
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TRMM gets a look at Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been busy measuring rainfall within Hurricane Irene, and forecasts call for between 5 and 10 inches in the southeastern and central Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2011
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Melanin's 'trick' for maintaining radioprotection studied
Sunbathers have long known that melanin in their skin cells provides protection from the damage caused by visible and ultraviolet light. More recent studies have shown that melanin, which is produced by multitudes of the ...
Biochemistry
Aug 23, 2011
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A new set of building blocks for simple synthesis of complex molecules
Assembling chemicals can be like putting together a puzzle. University of Illinois chemists have developed a way of fitting the pieces together to more efficiently build complex molecules, beginning with a powerful and promising ...
Biochemistry
Aug 23, 2011
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New theory may shed light on dynamics of large-polymer liquids
A new physics-based theory could give researchers a deeper understanding of the unusual, slow dynamics of liquids composed of large polymers. This advance provides a better picture of how polymer molecules respond under fast-flow, ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 23, 2011
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