Asia’s investment banks launch round of job cuts – Reuters
HONG KONG, June 25 (Reuters) - Investment banks andbrokerages across Asia have launched a sweeping round of jobcuts as Europe's debt crisis and China's economic slowdown biteinto the region's financial...
View ArticleSolar Flare Fired Off By Sprawling Sunspot Triggers Radio Blackout
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 07/05/2012 05:29 PM EDT on SPACE.com The sun fired off yet another intense solar flare today (July 5), the latest in a series of storms from a busy sunspot being closely...
View ArticleMother gets 8 years for putting infant on highway – RT
A mother who put her infant son on a highway in the Moscow Region amid the night hoping he would be killed by cars was sentenced to eight years in prison. Her brother, who helped the woman to plan the...
View ArticleFactory, jobs data show economy mired in weakness – Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The slowdown in the economy persisted early in the third quarter as factory activity in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region contracted in July for a third straight month and new claims...
View ArticleNASA – More Eruptions from Active Region 1476
The sun erupted with an M-class flare that peaked at 9:47 PM EDT on May 17, 2012. A CME also burst from the sun at 9:48 PM EDT, traveling at over 930 miles per second. Continue reading →
View ArticleChina Steps Up Curbs on Muslims
Authorities in Xinjiang ban public religious activities during the holy month of Ramadan. Continue reading →
View Article‘Inattention blindness’ due to brain load
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View ArticleChina calls for dialogue in solving Kosovo issue – Xinhua – English.news.cn
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View Article“Self-Awareness” -New Insights into How Human Brain Constructs a Sense of Self
Self-awareness in humans is more complex, diffuse than previously thought August 22, 2012 in Neuroscience Enlarge Researchers at the University of Iowa studied the brain of a patient with rare, severe...
View ArticleThe music has died in northern Mali as Islamic extremists exert control
Northern Mali was taken over by militants and Islamic extremists and now they're in the process of implementing a system of Sharia law in that part of the country. That's meant an end to musical...
View ArticleSiemens breakthrough HALVES energy cost of water desalination – major...
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View ArticleThe Neurocritic: The Neuroscience of Speed Dating Choice
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View ArticleBBC News – Hague war court acquits Croat Generals Gotovina and Markac
A court in The Hague war overturns the convictions of two Croatian generals accused of war crimes against Serbs during Yugoslavia's break-up in 1995. Continue reading →
View ArticleMap Room: Hidden Waters
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View ArticleMarijuana Isn’t a Pain Killer-It’s a Pain Distracter – Surprising Science
A new study finds that under the influence of marijuana, the same levels of pain are simply less bothersome Continue reading →
View ArticleBiosynthesis of luminescent quantum dots in an earthworm
Biosynthesis of luminescent quantum dots in an earthworm - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v8/n1/full/nnano.2012.232.html...
View ArticleUniversity of Michigan News Service – Electric stimulation of brain releases...
ANN ARBOR—Researchers used electricity on certain regions in the brain of a patient with chronic, severe facial pain to release an opiate-like substance that's considered one of the body's most powe...
View ArticleGas company targets protected Manú park in Peruvian Amazon – Environment
Leaked documents reveal Pluspetrol is eyeing a region where biodiversity 'exceeds that of any other place on Earth' Continue reading →
View ArticleDesert bacteria could help boost crop yields
Scientists in the Middle East have identified soil microbes that could help make desert agriculture more resistant to salinity and drought. Continue reading →
View ArticleRussian Interior Ministry Spokesman Says More Than 400 People Hurt in...
Russian Interior Ministry Spokesman Says More Than 400 People Hurt in Meteorite Fall Continue reading →
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