Accounting practices ultimately affect global economy May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
How much a particular hill of beans is worth may depend on who’s counting the beans. When it comes to accounting standards in the business world, every bean counts, but the quality of financial reporting differs from country ... | |
 Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out ... | |
 Study looks at Arizona’s 'Megapolitan' future May 14, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Two out of three Americans are expected to live in just 20 “megapolitan” areas in about 30 years, and one of these megapolitans – the Sun Corridor – is in Arizona. | |
 Improved Ion Mobility Is Key to New Hydrogen Storage Compound May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A materials scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has deciphered the structure of a new class of materials that can store relatively large quantities of hydrogen within its crystal ... | |
Chemistry of Airborne Particulate -- Lung Interactions Revealed May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Exactly how airborne particulates harm our lungs still puzzles epidemiologists, physicians, environmental scientists, and policy makers. Now California Institute of Technology researchers have found that they act by impairing ... | |
Scientists are building database of bite marks May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- It has sent innocent men to death row, given defense attorneys fits and splintered the scientific community. For a decade now, attorneys and even some forensic experts have ridiculed the use of bite marks to identify ... | |
 US lists polar bear as threatened species May 14, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The Interior Department has decided to protect the polar bear as a threatened species because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming, officials said Wednesday. | |
Vancouver researchers discover missing link between TB bacteria and humans May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body and are working toward a treatment to block ... | |
Window of opportunity for restoring oaks small, new study finds May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Communities of Oregon white oak were once widespread in the Pacific Northwest’s western lowlands, but, today, they are in decline. Fire suppression, conifer and invasive plant encroachment, and land use change have resulted ... | |
Aiming to sway voters, candidates emphasize hot-button issues across party lines May 14, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The 2004 presidential candidates reached out to voters across the political aisle – but not in a genuinely conciliatory spirit, according to a new analysis which says that George W. Bush and John Kerry sought to peel away ... | |
Pianos, pasta and lollies: the maths of the good life May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
CSIRO mathematician Dr Bob Anderssen knows a thing or two about the good life. He does the maths that makes it good. | |
 Deep sea methane scavengers captured May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena succeeded in capturing syntrophic (means "feeding together") ... | |
 Monarch butterflies help explain why parasites harm hosts May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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It’s a paradox that has confounded evolutionary biologists since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859: Since parasites depend on their hosts for survival, why do they harm them? | |
Taking on Britain's 'sick note culture' May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
GPs should lend a hand to beat the ‘sick note culture’ that sees millions of working days lost every year, according to a survey of smaller business owners. | |
 Shrimps see beyond the rainbow May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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A Swiss marine biologist and an Australian quantum physicist have found that a species of shrimp from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, can see a world invisible to all other animals. | |
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