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The UN Environment Program estimates that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter in every square mile of ocean. In fact, a swirling vortex of trash twice the size of Texas has spawned in the North Pacific, known as the North Pacific Gyre, due to a clockwise trade wind that encircles the Pacific Rim.
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Do you crave the companionship of a pet, but can’t be dogged by the commitment? New research suggests that robotic dogs can give you some of the same benefits you’d get from the real thing.
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It’s not your father’s space program anymore. That’s one of the clear messages here at the International Space Development Conference, where the future of exploration is being picked apart by top minds looking for the Next Big Thing—and the Next Big Power in Space.
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Researchers are looking for biochemical markers of the body’s response to high altitude, as they could provide a test for gene doping by athletes
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Over half of Indonesia and Malaysia’s palm oil plantations came at the expense of forests, despite the countries’ claims to the contrary
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“India and Brazil have filed appeals against the adoption of the Microsoft-sponsored Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard.”
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Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of an internet where all types of content are seamlessly combined could be on the horizon, but developers remain sceptical (full text available to subscribers)
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Researchers have found a way to hide messages in the data sent by voice-over-internet phone systems (full text available to subscribers)
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The contamination of biophony may soon become a serious environmental issue — Scientist Bernie Krause says that man-made sounds are already wreaking havoc with animal communication. We worry about the carbon emissions from SUVs and airplanes; maybe we should be equally concerned about the racket they cause.
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Everyone knows one of the biggest arguments against wind power is how ugly the turbines are and how difficult it is to find good places to put them. However, a new project working on floating turbines means that wind farm could be built far out to sea where they won’t “get in the way.”
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Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has implications for our understanding of life throughout the galaxy, as well as Earth’s own past.
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DENVER (Billboard) - Legal pressure is mounting against U.S. wireless operators over their role in facilitating either false or misleading charges for mobile content — primarily ringtones.
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