A group of investors is seeking to buy The Boston Globe from its owner, The New York Times Co., which tried unsuccessfully to sell the struggling newspaper last year, the Globe reported Wednesday.
Business
Oct 20, 2010
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First it was the smart phone. Then it was the netbook. Now the tablet is trying to be the must-have, ultraportable, Web-connected gadget.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 20, 2010
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Just as landscape photographs shot in low-angle light dramatically accentuate subtle swales and mounds, depositing metal vapors at glancing angles turns a rough surface into amazing nanostructures with a vast range of potential ...
Nanophysics
Oct 20, 2010
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(AP) -- EBay Inc. on Wednesday said its third-quarter profit climbed 23 percent, helped by its growing PayPal business.
Business
Oct 20, 2010
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Researchers at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), an organized research unit in the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology have made a remarkable new discovery.
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2010
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Researchers used more than 100 giant fans to create hurricane-force winds in an experiment Tuesday that crumpled an ordinary home within minutes but left a better-built home standing at its side.
Engineering
Oct 20, 2010
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Cornell archaeologists are helping to rewrite the early prehistory of human civilization on Cyprus, with evidence that hunter-gatherers began to form agricultural settlements on the island half a millennium earlier than previously ...
Archaeology
Oct 20, 2010
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The GOES-13 satellite keeps a continuous eye over the eastern U.S., the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean, and noticed that System 99L is much better organized today, October 20, hinting that it could become ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to tests of strength, graphite -- actually layered sheets of carbon atoms -- fares badly. Subject it to ultra-high pressure, though, and graphite becomes diamond, the hardest substance known, ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 20, 2010
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Apple on Wednesday released a sleek new MacBook Air notebook computer inspired by its winning iPad tablet devices.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 20, 2010
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