Japan’s Maruyama Shigenori, one of the world’s leading geophysicists, is working on a global formula for a vast new field of study that would include dozens of disciplines collaborating to produce an overall picture of the Earth.
Maruyama is creating a new institute called the Center for Bio-Earth Planetology will be launched in 2009 and fully [...]
(AP) — Credit card companies know what you’ve bought. Phone companies know whom you’ve called. Electronic toll services know where you’ve gone. Internet search companies know what you’ve sought.
It might be reassuring, then, that companies have largely pledged to safeguard these repositories of data about you.
But a recent federal court ruling ordering the disclosure of [...]
Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month’s Olympics and September’s Paralympics.
A directive from the Beijing Food Safety Office issued last month ordered Olympic contractor hotels not to provide any dishes made with dog meat and said any canine material used [...]
(AP) - In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world’s information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web.
The Mountain View-based company unveiled a free service Tuesday in which three-dimensional software enables people to congregate in electronic rooms and other computer-manufactured versions of real life. The [...]
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