LOMA LA LATA, Argentina — In a desert-like stretch of scrub grass and red buttes, oil companies are punching holes in the ground in search of what might be one of the biggest recent discoveries in the Americas: enough gas and oil to make a country known for beef and the tango an important energy player. Read full article > >
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Center of gravity in oil world shifts to Americas
Microsoft has asked Google to remove more than 500,000 links from its search index in the last month, figures show.
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Google shows copyright complaints
Yahoo has launched a new browser for Apple’s mobile devices called Axis . The browser, which is also available on desktops through plug-ins for the four major browsers, is designed to let you move between your devices and look at the same searches. Read full article > >
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Yahoo launches Axis browser
Yahoo tries to attract search queries via a new service which offers visual webpage previews rather than lists of links
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Yahoo launches visual search app
Babies who are delivered through Caesarean section are twice as likely to become obese than those born traditionally, US research suggests.
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C-section ‘link’ to child obesity
People who take calcium supplements could be increasing their risk of having a heart attack, according to researchers in Germany.
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Calcium pills pose ‘heart risk’
During a debate hosted by Google, the search giant says that automatic porn filters are a mistake.
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Google rejects porn block rules
The biggest environmental summit for a decade needs to deliver meaningful progress on global food security sustainable agriculture, say researchers.
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Nations need food security goals
Chimps and orangutans really do have “personalities like people”, new research says
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Chimpanzees behave ‘like people’
Researchers find that ground-dwelling invertebrates such as harvestmen and beetles preferentially live near street lights, even during the day.
The desperate search in Portland, Maine, for a Harvard Business School student missing since Sunday ended in heartbreak after his body was found just days before he was to graduate.
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Body of missing Harvard student found
The spread of an animal parasite across the UK may be hampering moves to curb cattle tuberculosis, research suggests.
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Parasite may aid cattle TB spread
Researchers demonstrate a means to use sections of DNA as individually addressable, rewritable “bits” to store data in living cells.
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Rewritable DNA memory shown off
The search result sharing service allows members of the public to sign up and view each other’s “collages of content”.
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Microsoft opens up So.cl network
In drought-racked Niger, the difficult search for water frequently falls to children as young as 10, and they often arrive late to school, or not at all.
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Zinder Journal: Niger Children Miss School to Search for Water
Zinder Journal: Niger Children Miss School to Search for Water
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
