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VIDEO: E-book extras spell change for books

2013-08-23 12:34:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

With the rapid increase in self-published books around the world, major publishing houses are having to find new ways to maintain their market share.

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Graphene transistors based on negative resistance could spell the end of silicon and semiconductors

2013-08-20 15:01:01| Extremetech

With silicon fast running out of steam and no clear path beyond 14nm, graphene might just be the light at the end of the tunnel. For that to occur, though, we first need to turn graphene into a reliable semiconductor -- the world's greatest chemists and physicists need to get together and work out how to switch graphene off. This is proving to be a lot harder than it sounds -- but now, thanks to a fancy effect called negative resistance, researchers at the University of Riverside, California (UCR) may have cracked it.

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Climate Change Could Spell Final 'Chuckle' For Alpine Frog

2013-08-07 22:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: Across the Western U.S., yearly areas of snowpack are decreasing, and researchers are trying to figure out what that means for everything that relies on the snowmelt from farms to power plants to a little creature known as the Cascades frog. The frog lives way up in the mountains of the Northwest and thrives in alpine wetlands fed by melting snow. Scientists are now trying to figure out how these frogs will adapt to their shrinking habitat. In Washington's Olympic Mountains things are looking...

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Ship recycling EU draft regulations spell hope for a growing controversy

2013-07-25 01:00:00| Ship Technology

Globally, around 1,000 large ships a year are broken up and recycled. While it means that their steel and other valuable scrap can be reclaimed and their equipment reused, the process itself has largely become the preserve of developing nations oft

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