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Fuel-efficient autos drive sales higherWashington (AFP) April 3, 2012 US auto sales revved up in March amid an improving economy and as high gasoline prices boosted buying of fuel-efficient vehicles, US and foreign automakers said Tuesday. General Motors Company, the world's biggest automaker by sales, reported March sales of 231,052 vehicles in the United States, up 12 percent from a year ago. Solid gains were echoed at Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai and Volkswagen. "March overall vehicle sales were a bit lighter than expected but in view of the rece ... read more |
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  Latin American oil draws new investors New oil discoveries and prospects for further exploration are drawing investors to Latin America despite heightened tensions triggered by Argentina disputing British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and its energy-rich deep water. ... more | .. |
  Algae biofuels: the wave of the future Researchers at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute have assembled the draft genome of a marine algae sequence to aid scientists across the US in a project that aims to discover the best algae species ... more | .. |
  Robosquirrels versus rattlesnakes Robot squirrels from the University of California, Davis, are going into rattlesnake country near San Jose, continuing a research project on the interaction between squirrels and rattlesnakes. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 Is bioenergy expansion harmful to wildlife? Despite the predicted environmental benefits of biofuels, converting land to grow bioenergy crops may harm native wildlife. Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig ... more | .. |
  Quantum information motion control is now improved Physicists have recently devised a new method for handling the effect of the interplay between vibrations and electrons on electronic transport. Their paper is about to be published in EPJ B. ... more | .. |
  Advanced power-grid research finds low-cost, low-carbon future in West The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of ... more | .. |
  Nanoscale magnetic media diagnostics by rippling spin waves Memory devices based on magnetism are one of the core technologies of the computing industry, and engineers are working to develop new forms of magnetic memory that are faster, smaller, and more ene ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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 Outside View: $8 a gallon gas! Campaigning for office, U.S. President Barack Obama promised to do something about high gasoline prices but now he is denying he can do much about what Americans pay to drive. He is too modest! ... more | .. |
 App makes saving energy social at Facebook An application released on Tuesday plugs into the power of Facebook to make saving energy an online community affair. ... more | .. |
 Airstrike hits Sudan's Darfur: AU-UN An airstrike took place near a populated area of Sudan's North Darfur state, without causing casualties, the African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission UAMID said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 BMW, Guggenheim salvage Berlin 'lab' after threats German automaker BMW and New York's Guggenheim Museum said Tuesday they have found a new site in Berlin for an urban design "laboratory" after irate residents of a trendy district forced them out. ... more |
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  H.K. tycoon brothers in graft probe deny wrongdoing Hong Kong tycoon brothers Thomas and Raymond Kwok on Tuesday declared their innocence and sought to calm investors after their arrest last week as part of the city's biggest corruption probe. ... more | .. |
 Philippines urges united ASEAN stand on South China Sea ASEAN should forge a common position on a proposed code of conduct aimed at easing tensions in the South China Sea before talking with China, Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Total to airlift team to stricken North Sea rig this week Energy giant Total said it will send a team of experts by helicopter to a stricken North Sea gas platform on Wednesday or Thursday to assess how to stop a potentially explosive gas leak. ... more | .. |
 James Murdoch: heir apparent dogged by hacking scandal From teenage rebel to prodigal son, James Murdoch surprised many observers when he rose to become the heir apparent to his father Rupert's global media empire. ... more |
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Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats
Are Unlocked Phones Any Good? Unlocked vs. Locked Phone Benefits
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  EU probes Google's Motorola in Apple, Microsoft patent war European regulators opened Tuesday two antitrust investigations against Motorola Mobility, bought by US Internet giant Google, in the latest chapter of an escalating patent war with Apple and Microsoft. ... more | .. |
 Groupon's star dims with revised earnings report Online discount deals firm Groupon saw its fledgling stock price sink Monday as word spread that it overstated its quarterly earnings, a move reportedly being scrutinized by US regulators. ... more | .. |
 World Bank chief backs BRICS bank idea Outgoing World Bank president Robert Zoellick on Tuesday gave his backing to a new development bank proposed by the leaders of the BRICS emerging countries. ... more | .. |
  The role of physics in the sinking of the Titanic A century on from the sinking of the Titanic, science writer Richard Corfield takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the 'unsinkable' ship, taking into account the maths and ... more |
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  Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater processing capacity ... more | .. |
 Whether grasping Easter eggs or glass bottles - this robotic hand uses tact It may be difficult to imagine, but pouring juice into a plastic cup can be a great challenge to a robot. While one hand holds the glass bottle firmly, the other one must gently grasp the cup. Resea ... more | .. |
 Self-sculpting sand Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself i ... more | .. |
 UMass Amherst computer scientist leads the way to the next revolution in artificial intelligence As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematical genius Alan Turing, who set out the basis for digital computing in the 1930s to anticipate the elect ... more |
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Trump gives Russia 50 days to make Ukraine deal
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 UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter. In a paper published in the March 29 issue of the journal ... more | .. |
 New material cuts energy costs of separating gas for plastics and fuels A new type of hybrid material developed at the University of California, Berkeley, could help oil and chemical companies save energy and money - and lower their environmental impacts - by eliminatin ... more | .. |
 New understanding of how materials change when rapidly heated Collaboration between the University of Southampton and the University of Cambridge has made ground-breaking advances in our understanding of the changes that materials undergo when rapidly heated. ... more | .. |
  Reducing cash bite of wind power The State of Illinois is facing an important renewable energy deadline in 2025, and Northwestern University's Harold H. Kung has a piece of advice for Springfield to consider now: Investment Tax Cre ... more |
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 Uruguay mulls offering Iran rice for oil Uruguay is considering offering Iran rice shipments in return for oil in apparent disregard of U.S.-led sanctions regarding Iran's disputed nuclear program. ... more | .. |
Settlement talks fail in Google vs. Oracle patent case A federal judge in the heart of Silicon Valley said Monday that Google and Oracle have failed to settle a patent dispute out of court and that the case will head to civil trial. ... more | .. |
 UCLA Engineering researchers use electricity to generate alternative fuel Imagine being able to use electricity to power your car - even if it's not an electric vehicle. Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first tim ... more | .. |
 Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomp ... more |
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