The A Team
Blue whales along the US west coast seem to have recovered from decades of hunting, surprising researchers and regulators who had listed them as threatened. The population of Balaenoptera musculus,...
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Cosmologists have revealed intruiging new ways to probe the mystery of whether dark energy exists and how it might be accelerating the universe’s growth A LIGHT in the darkness can come from...
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In Africa, over 100 million people are now using Facebook. But they don’t use it quite like we do here in the U.S. Each month, as Mark Zuckerberg and company revealed today, 80 percent of those 100...
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Maybe you’re still warming up to wearables, but would you pull on a sweater that’s a circuit board? You soon could, because a team of engineers from Hong Kong Polytechnic University have created a...
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With a temperature below -268 degrees Celsius, liquid helium keeps MRI machines and particle accelerators properly cooled (yay!). Take liquid helium's temperature even lower than that, however, and...
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When it comes to the personalized Internet, few people know the inner mechanics of how websites conduct experiments better than Ronny Kohavi. His formal title is general manager of the analysis and...
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Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have discovered that humans prefer increased autonomy for robots. And no, those researchers were not robots. More robot...
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After being banned from Twitter and YouTube due to its video of James Foley's murder, the Islamic State (Isis) migrated to another social network called Diaspora Isis has several Diaspora accounts and...
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Jonathan Stop the clock Take time out Time to regroup Before you lose the bout Freeze the frame Back it up Time to refocus Before they wrap it up Years are getting shorter Lines on your face are...
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Was there a point at which Apple stopped being fun? Well, Apple was about as pure of a Silicon Valley company as you could imagine. We started in a garage. Woz (co-founder Stephen Wozniak) and I both...
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