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Identifying dolphins with technology
A student-developed computer program simplifies the process of manual photo identification of bottlenose dolphins and other species.
Why India Just Suffered the World's Biggest Blackout
India is chronically short on power, but not because there's not enough money to bring electricity to all Indians.
10-year-old problem in theoretical computer science falls
Thomas VidickPhoto: M. Scott Brauer Interactive proofs, which MIT researchers helped pioneer, have emerged as one of the major research topics in theoretical computer science. In the classic interactive proof, a questioner with...
RATS research may teach rodents to detect explosives
The African giant pouched rat is socialized and readily handled. A rat may never be man's best friend, but the Rugged Automated Training System (R.A.T.S.) research sponsored by scientists with...
Smile, You're In Our Database
What exactly happens to your face when you smile spontaneously, and how does that affect how old you look? Computer scientists from the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Science recorded...
Panel aims to boost jobs for workers with disabilities
Human Resources Minister Diane Finley announced this morning that the federal government has established a task force aimed at increasing access to jobs in the private sector for people with...
Group says kept in the dark about Facebook case
An Austrian group fighting for clearer privacy policies on Facebook complained Monday that the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) was keeping it in the dark about proceedings.
Futuristic space plane concept moves closer to reality
Privately funded British design concept could take off from runway and fly to space
Green Blog: From the Ground Up: An Adventure Begins
A couple quits the city to volunteer for green construction work in Utah, with the ultimate goal of building their own home in rural New York State.
So how do plants know when to flower?
Professor Caroline Dean recently wrote a blog article for The Independent website on how plants know when to flower. This was part of a series of blogs on Women in...
Higgs boson: the definite article? | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics
A week in Valencia discussing the new boson. When is a Higgs boson the Higgs boson, and does the boost help?I just spent a great week in Valencia at the fourth annual...
Fujitsu develops technology to automatically resolve performance problems in distributed storage
Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of a technology that automatically resolves problems caused by concentrated accessing of popular data items in a distributed storage system in order to curb...
Zoo tries to break smoking orangutan's habit
Indonesian zookeepers have moved an orangutan out of visitors' sight so she'll no longer smoke lit cigarettes people regularly throw into her cage.
Smartphone use can mean a never-ending workday
There was a time when the workday ended after leaving the office, but a new survey suggests the arrival of smartphones has meant many workers are putting in as much...
New high standards for emergency wireless devices
First responders rely increasingly on wireless communication devices, and in emergencies they cannot afford major signal loss or delay caused by attenuation, interference, or reflection. Because lives are on the...
Rutgers engineers design cell phone app to reduce distracted driving
(Phys.org) -- Laws that limit cell phone use while driving dont seem to be curbing accidents blamed on drivers who insist on talking or texting behind the wheel.
Q&A: Stanford terrorism expert Martha Crenshaw on Olympic security
Security concerns at the Olympics have dominated headlines over the past month after private contractor G4S failed to recruit the number of guards it had promised. The British government responded...
Researchers confirm link between economy, 'green' advertising
(Phys.org) -- The amount of "green" advertising rises and falls in conjunction with key indicators of economic growth.
The politics of food guides
For 70 years, the issuing of government food guides in Canada has been about more than just nutrition and health. One historian has found that they have been used to...
Skype tells surveillance alarm-raisers they got it all wrong
(Phys.org) -- Skype, the famous and widely used voice-over-Internet protocol service and software application that in 2011 became Microsoft's online message, phone and video chat service, is fighting off assumptions...
Hackers see "sheeple" sheared by Google wireless data grab
Long before Google online mapping service cars snatched data from private wireless hotspots there was the Wall of Sheep.
Better product design through a simple square chart
Suppose you were asked to streamline the process of real estate development. Or to better organize the offices of an international manufacturer. Or to explain how the parts of a digital printer interact....
Bolivia consults locals on jungle highway project
The Bolivian government of President Evo Morales Sunday met with indigenous Amazon basin lowland residents to discuss plans for a controversial highway that would run through their their homeland.
China Will Investigate Whether U.S., South Korea Dumped Polysilicon, As Trade Friction Escalates
Trade: U.S., South Korea are accused of dumping solar-panel ingredient
Video: Next-gen robots lend a helping hand
In a lab deep in the Silicon Valley, a group of scientists are making robots designed to help people who need help the most. Priya Clemens finds out what sets...
Fake online editorial fools New York Times
The New York Times, which famously insists on the accuracy of its reports, was red faced Sunday after being fooled by a hoax online editorial posted under the name of...
Tech titans face off in court over iPhone, iPad
(AP) Two tech titans will square off in federal court Monday in a closely watched trial over control of the U.S. smart phone and computer tablet markets.
Chilli used by Indian army in weaponry is hot property for poor farmers
Demand from the military for bhut jolokia, once the world's hottest chilli, is offering thousands of farmer a way out of poverty"Look at this," said Dr Anuj Baruah, holding up a vial...