Amazon might be getting ready to expand its video offerings, according to a report released this afternoon by The Wall Street Journal. Despite facing a wall of "no comments" from every party rumored to be involved, the...
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US finally reforming its high-tech export control system
Many high-technology companies have run afoul of the US' Export Control System, which regulates the overseas sales of items that can be put to use for military or intelligence-gathering purposes. Given the pace of innovation, ha...
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Searching through the LHC data flood for dark matter
As we mentioned in recent coverage, a hypothesis called supersymmetry is one of the leading candidates to fix the problems that have appeared in the Standard Model, which explains the behavior of the fundamental components of mat...
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After spyware fails, UAE gives up and bans Blackberries
The United Arab Emirates tends to be one of the more moderate nations in the Persian Gulf region, which may have contributed to its rise as a major financial center. The bankers apparently brought their Blackberries with...
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Weird Science spies on cheating warblers
Idle hands are a source of dread: Apparently, if there's nothing that they can justify doing, most people default to doing nothing. And they hate it. People who are busier rated themselves as more happy,...
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How computers and politics revolutionized the oldest science
Because of its immense practical value for agricultural societies, many early cultures developed something that resembled a science: the observational study of the motion of bodies around the solar system. Four hundred years ...
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Kepler scientist tries to stop galaxy-sized rumors he started
One of the scientists who works on the Kepler planet-hunting mission, Dimitar Sasselov, inadvertently set off a bit of a controversy when he appeared to announce that its first big data release implied that our galaxy...
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Astronomy and particle physics race to replace Standard Model
If energy issues seem to be attracting the attention of a lot of physicists, the Large Hadron Collider seems to be drawing the attention of many of the rest of them, including people in...
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Scientists informally intervene in cases of sloppy research
Most people involved in scientific research are well aware of the big three ethical lapses: fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism. These acts are considered to have such a large potential for distorting the scientific recor...
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Weird Science thinks that computer memory could grow on trees
Tree + memory = circuitry: The race for ever shrinking circuitry has apparently headed for the trees. Researchers have found that a protein isolated from poplar trees can host silicon nanoparticles as small as 5nm across....
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