The first large-scale study of smartphones in everyday use by consumers has revealed that apps drain 28.9 percent of battery power while the screen is off. To address the problem, researchers have created a software tool ...
Software
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Imagine the scientific discoveries that would result from a searchable online database containing millions of plant, algae, and fungi specimen records. Thanks to a new set of workflow modules to digitize specimen collections ...
Plants & Animals
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Google may expand its ultra-fast Internet service into southern California and Kentucky for the first time.
Telecom
Sep 10, 2015
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Since 2002, the Southern Ocean has been removing more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to two new studies.
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2015
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The current El Nino phenomenon, a global weather pattern known to wreak havoc every few years, should last until spring and likely become one of the strongest on record, forecasters said Thursday.
Environment
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SurveyMonkey said Thursday that it added Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Meg Whitman to its board of directors.
Business
Sep 10, 2015
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New research led by scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University shows how individual atoms move in trillionths of a second to form wrinkles on a three-atom-thick ...
Nanophysics
Sep 10, 2015
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Would a color by any other name be thought of in the same way, regardless of the language used to describe it?
Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2015
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A study of aggression in monk parakeets suggests that where they stand in the pecking order is a function of the bird's carefully calibrated perceptions of the rank of their fellow-feathered friends.
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2015
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Breathe in, breathe out, in, out... Like a giant lung, the Southern Ocean seasonally absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and releases it back later in the year. But on an annual average the seas ...
Earth Sciences
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