Netflix will launch its streaming television service in Japan on September 2, the latest stop in its mission to be a global entertainment powerhouse, it said Tuesday.
Business
Aug 4, 2015
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While most people might know some algae as "pond scum," to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), they are tiny organisms that could provide a source of sustainable fuels. Like plants, they can convert light into energy-rich ...
Biotechnology
Aug 4, 2015
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Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have cooled a gas to the quietest state ever achieved, hoping to detect faint quantum effects lost in the din of colder but noisier fluids.
Quantum Physics
Aug 4, 2015
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Forrest Bird, an American aviator who helped save countless lives by inventing the first modern ventilator, has died at the age of 94.
Other
Aug 4, 2015
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Crunching through waist-high prairie grass, the researchers scan ahead with binoculars. Peering out at the black-eyed susans reaching above the prairie dropseed, they are searching for something they do not expect to find ...
Ecology
Aug 4, 2015
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Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam prime-focus camera recently observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two brightest neighbors, M82 and NGC3077. The results of their observations ...
Astronomy
Aug 4, 2015
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Twitter rolled out a News Tab feature to some of its U.S. users Tuesday, an experimental effort to make it easier for people to find headlines that are trending on the platform.
Internet
Aug 4, 2015
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Microtubules, hollow fibers of tubulin protein only a few nanometers in diameter, form the cytoskeletons of living cells and play a crucial role in cell division (mitosis) through their ability to undergo rapid growth and ...
General Physics
Aug 4, 2015
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Marketers would love to get inside the consumer brain. And now they can. Researchers at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business are using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see if what people say about brands matches ...
Economics & Business
Aug 4, 2015
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Rice University scientists are developing strategies to keep germs from evolving resistance to antibiotics by heading them off at the pass.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 4, 2015
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