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We know where you live

From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces.  [caption id="attachment_8843" align="alignnone" width="639"] “[W]hen you send location data as a secondary piece of information, it is extremely simple for people with…

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New Plant Stem Cell Discovery Points to Increased…

Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have discovered a new growth-regulating pathway in plants that has eluded scientists for years. In addition, by tweaking this new pathway the scientists have found a way to gently…

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Oxygen atmosphere recipe = tectonics + continents +…

Rice-led study offers new answer to why Earth's atmosphere became oxygenated [caption id="attachment_8834" align="alignright" width="300"] Cin-Ty LeePhoto by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University[/caption] HOUSTON – Earth scientists from Rice University, Yale University and the University of Tokyo are…