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Tiny Nanocraft May Sail to Neighboring Star System
2016-04-14 18:58:35| TechNewsWorld
Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner on Tuesday unveiled Breakthrough Starship, an ambitious $100 million effort to send miniature spacecraft to another solar system, but the program might not be quite ready to fly. It calls for a team of engineering and astrophysics experts to develop nanocrafts that could zoom to the Alpha Centauri star system at 20 percent the speed of light.
CEO pay at Tampa Bay public corporations? Big to us but tiny compared to top U.S. execs
2016-04-09 17:34:26| Mobile Homes - Topix.net
Among the CEOs of Tampa Bay's larger publicly traded corporations, Mark Mondello of Jabil enjoyed the biggest paycheck of the past year, in addition to the greatest annual raise in compensation. In contrast, founder and CEO Paresh Patel of the property insurer HCI Group saw his compensation drop sharply from the year before, according to currently available data.
Using tiny predators to tackle pests
2016-04-07 01:03:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The growing use of tiny predators to tackle farm pests
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These tiny mangroves hold vast stores of carbon
2016-03-29 13:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Squat mangrove forests that seem at first blush to simply eke by along the coasts of Baja California are sitting on a big secret one with sweeping implications in an era of accelerating climate change. Despite their diminutive appearance, scientists discovered that these mucky coastal ecosystems store huge amounts of carbon, helping to slow global warming. The peninsulas low-growing mangrove forests harbor at least as much carbon as towering mangrove forests found elsewhere, scientists led by...
Tiny Vermont brings food industry to its knees on GMO labels
2016-03-21 22:49:01| Food - Topix.net
A box of General Mills' Cheerios is seen on a shelf at a Shaw's Supermarket in Gloucester, Mass. General Mills says it will start labeling products across the country that contain genetically modified ingredients to comply with a law that is set to go into effect in Vermont.
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