Famous last tweets captured for posterity
Someone's famous last words are now likely to be famous last tweets.
Internet
Feb 15, 2013
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Climate change is not an all-or-nothing proposition, researcher says
An Ohio State University statistician says that the natural human difficulty with grasping probabilities is preventing Americans from dealing with climate change.
Environment
Feb 15, 2013
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Statistics help clear fog for better climate change picture
Statistics is an important tool in sorting through information on how human activities are affecting the climate system, as well as how climate change affects natural and human systems, according to a Penn State statistician.
Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2013
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Forget about leprechauns, engineers are catching rainbows
(Phys.org)—University at Buffalo engineers have created a more efficient way to catch rainbows, an advancement in photonics that could lead to technological breakthroughs in solar energy, stealth technology and other areas ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 15, 2013
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Open-source software can help find the right space for offshore wind turbines
Offshore wind has significant potential to help the United States meet its growing energy needs, but the U.S. marine renewable energy industry has lagged behind Europe for decades.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 15, 2013
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Facebook users can pay to promote friends' posts
Facebook on Friday said it is letting users pay to ensure that messages posted by friends at the leading social network get more attention.
Internet
Feb 15, 2013
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The discovery of a new genus of crustacean and 5 new species
Experts from the Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes and the University of Barcelona (UB) collected and studied different crustacean specimens during recent expeditions to Madagascar, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, the Philippines ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2013
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Evolutionary biologists urged to adapt their research methods
To truly understand the mechanisms of natural selection, evolutionary biologists need to shift their focus from present-day molecules to synthesized, ancestral ones, says Shozo Yokoyama, a biologist at Emory University.
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2013
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Genetic components of political preference
Rose McDermott, professor of political science at Brown University, will discuss the growing field of research that explores possible links between genetics and political preferences at the annual meeting of the American ...
Social Sciences
Feb 15, 2013
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Not your conventional nucleic acids
Northwestern University's Chad A. Mirkin, a world-renowned leader in nanotechnology research and its application, has invented and developed a powerful material that could revolutionize biomedicine: spherical nucleic acids ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2013
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