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  Building 3-D Fractals on a Nano Scale

  May 31, 2013 — It starts with one 3-D structure with eight planes, an octahedron. This repeats itself to smaller octahedra: 625 after just four steps. At every corner of a new octahedron, a successive octahedron is ... > full story
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  International Negotiations: Playing Games With the Climate

  May 31, 2013 — Researchers have applied game theory to the problem of climate change to help analyze the relationships between international players on the world stage, occurrence and effects, attitude towards ... > full story
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  Artificial Magnetic Monopoles Discovered

  May 31, 2013 — Scientists have managed to create artificial magnetic monopoles. To do this, they merged tiny magnetic whirls, so-called skyrmions. At the point of merging, the physicists were able to create a ... > full story

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  Why Animals Compare the Present With the Past

  May 30, 2013 — Humans, like other animals, compare things. We care not only how well off we are, but whether we are better or worse off than others around us, or than we were last year. New research shows that such ... > full story
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  Android Antiviral Products Easily Evaded

  May 30, 2013 — Think your antivirus product is keeping your Android safe? Think again. Ten of the top Android antiviral products are rendered useless by the simplest ... > full story
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  When Friends Create Enemies: Facebook's Mutual-Friends Feature May Create Security Risks, Privacy Concerns

  May 30, 2013 — Often revered for bringing people together, the mutual-friends feature on Facebook actually creates myriad security risks and privacy concerns according to a new ... > full story
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  Information Transmission a Good Predictor of Credit Crisis

  May 30, 2013 — The recent credit crisis was preceded by a sharp increase in the transmission of information in the largest derivatives market. Such transmissions can therefore serve as indicators for the ... > full story
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  New Mathematical Model Links Space-Time Theories

  May 30, 2013 — Researchers have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our ... > full story
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  Pigeons Peck for Computerized Treat

  May 29, 2013 — New research show pigeons can make informed choices, and use a computerized touch-screen as ... > full story
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  Twitter May Become Less Interactive and More an Advertising Broadcast Medium Like TV or Radio

  May 29, 2013 — Popular social media site Twitter may eventually resemble a broadcast medium like television or radio, with users reading messages written by celebrities and corporations rather than writing their ... > full story

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