U.S. counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations…
Month: February 2012
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How’d they do it? NASA explains the Blue Marble photo (Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News – A few days ago, NASA published an incredibly detailed photo, dubbed Blue Marble,…
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Google tightens security in Android app store (Reuters)
Reuters – Google Inc has been quietly policing its online store for months now in…
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Facebook filing lifts Zynga, other recent IPOs (AP)
AP – Facebook’s long-awaited IPO filing lifted the stocks of many Internet companies, including recent…
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Research ethics: Coercive citations in academic publishing
Scientists have examined the unethical practices of some journal publications, articulating results from their research…
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Google Earth ocean terrain receives major update
Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting…
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Scientists coax shy microorganisms to stand out in a crowd
Scientists have advanced a method that allowed them to single out a marine microorganism and…
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Football findings suggest concussions caused by series of hits
A two-year study of high school football players suggests that concussions are likely caused by…
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New RNA-based therapeutic strategies for controlling gene expression
Small RNA-based nucleic acid drugs represent a promising new class of therapeutic agents for silencing…
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New technique successfully dissolves blood clots in brain and lowers risk of brain damage after stroke, study suggests
Neurologists report success with a new means of getting rid of potentially lethal blood clots…