Lose your job? Tell your Facebook, Twitter friends
Just minutes after she was laid off from her job earlier this month, Brittany Ward pulled out her cell phone and typed a short message. "Needs a job."
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California's low-carbon fuel standard has oil companies anxious
In car-crazy California, a new fuel standard ordered by state officials to curb greenhouse gases could dramatically change how vehicles run. It also could have a huge effect on cost.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 28, 2009
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Nokia to cut 450 jobs worldwide: company
Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it planned to cut some 450 jobs globally as it reorganises its services unit.
Business
Apr 28, 2009
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Review: Looking for gems in iPhone's game library
Nintendo has owned the portable video-game market - first with the Game Boy, now with the DS - for so long that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor. But it's become impossible to ignore the new kid ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 28, 2009
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Seaglider monitors waters from Arctic during record-breaking journey under ice (w/Video)
The University of Washington has surpassed its 2-year-old world record for operating a glider under the ice, this time by successfully operating one of its seagliders for six months as it made round trips hundreds of miles ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2009
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New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent of its present ...
Astronomy
Apr 28, 2009
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Findings uncover new details about mysterious virus
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has determined key structural features of the largest known virus, findings that could help scientists studying how the simplest life evolved and whether the unusual virus ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 28, 2009
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Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells. In addition ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 28, 2009
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Study of 'Persistent Currents' Finally Verifies Theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Approximately 20 years ago, scientists discovered that is is possible for an electric current to flow endlessly in a ring made of a normal metal. One might think that such an 'old' finding would be well understood ...
Icebergs break away from Antarctic iceshelf
(PhysOrg.com) -- Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf - indicating that the huge shelf has become unstable. This follows the collapse three weeks ago of ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2009
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