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A Tale of (More Than) Two Butterflies

By Guest PostSeptember 14, 2011Nature, Scienceappalachian mountains, appalachian tiger, appalachian tiger swallowtail, battus philenor, canadian tiger swallowtail, canadian tigers, diversity of life on earth, eastern tiger, eastern tiger swallowtail, harvard university, hybrid speciation, krushnamegh kunte, larry gilbert, marcus kronforst, north american tiger swallowtail butterflies, p canadensis, p glaucus, papilio appalachiensis, pipevine swallowtail, poisonous butterfly, sam scheiner, tiger swallowtail butterfly, tom juenger, university of texas at austin

*Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is hybrid of other swallowtails*

Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago.

It’s a rarity in the animal world, biologists have found.

They discovered that the Appalachian tiger swallowtail, Papilio appalachiensis, evolved from mixing between the Eastern tiger swallowtail, P. glaucus, and the Canadian tiger swallowtail, P. canadensis. (more…)

Exeter Academic Explains Chemical ‘Risk List’

By Guest PostSeptember 14, 2011Environmentchemical risk list, critical metals, low carbon economy, rare earth elements, risk list, suppliers of metals

A University of Exeter academic has spoken about the many chemical elements we rely on that are at risk.

Professor Frances Wall, Head of the University’s Camborne School of Mines, joined a panel of experts at the British Science Festival to reveal the new chemical ‘risk list’. (more…)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 The Final Trailer is Now Available Online, Only on Yahoo! Movies

By Guest PostSeptember 14, 2011Entertainment, Technologybill condon, dreamgirls, eclipse, gods and monsters, jacob black, kristen stewart, melissa rosenberg, robert pattinson, stephenie meyer, summit entertainment, tale of vampire love, taylor lautner, the twilight saga, yahoo movies

*Yahoo! Movies Premieres One of the Most Highly Anticipated Releases of the Year*

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)— Yahoo! Movies (https://movies.yahoo.com) in conjunction with Summit Entertainment, exclusively presents online the trailer for THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1: https://yhoo.it/newbdtrailer

The highly anticipated fourth installment of The Twilight Saga, directed by Academy Award® winner Bill Condon, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN — PART 1 reveals the mysteries of this romantic epic that has entranced millions. (more…)

Android Captures #2 Ranking Among Smartphone Platforms in EU5

By Guest PostSeptember 13, 2011Technologyandroid device, apple ios, Comscore, eu5, european markets, france, Germany, Google, google android platform, growth trends of smartphone, htc, italy, jeremy copp, Microsoft, mobile, mobile media landscape, rim, spain, symbian, united kingdom

*HTC and Samsung Emerge as Top Android Device Manufacturers*

LONDON, UK, 13 September 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service analysing growth trends of the smartphone platforms across the five leading European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom). In July 2011, nearly 1 in 4 smartphone users in EU5 reported using smartphones running on the Google Android platform. HTC had the highest market share among mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), accounting for 34.6 percent of Android devices used across the region in this period, followed closely by Samsung with 31.7 percent of Android devices. (more…)

MSU Licenses Technology to Detect Altered Fingerprints

By Guest PostSeptember 13, 2011Scienceadvancement of biometrics, altered fingerprints, detection, fingerprint

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University has licensed cutting-edge software that detects altered fingerprints to Morpho, part of the Safran group, one of the world’s leading suppliers of identification and detection solutions. (more…)

Names, Not Social Networks, Bind Us to Global Cultural and Ethnic Communities

By Guest PostSeptember 12, 2011Culture, Sciencecultural baggage, electoral registers, ethnic and linguistic communities, ethnic segregation, geographical factors, global networks, linguistic population, migrant integration, name dictionary, pablo mateos, research in population genetics, social science, social stratification, surnames and forenames, telephone directories, ucl, university of auckland

Links between hundreds of millions of names belonging to people all around the world have been analysed by geographers from UCL and the University of Auckland. The results reveal how our forenames and surnames are connected in distinct global networks of cultural, ethnic and linguistic communities.

The researchers’ methods could be of use to social scientists and health researchers investigating migration, identity and integration. (more…)

Government Sites Reach 40 Percent of Americans but Lag Behind Overall Internet Growth

By Guest PostSeptember 12, 2011Technologyamericans, Comscore, comscore data, department of education, gillian heltai, Google, government agencies, internal revenue service, national institutes of health, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, nih, traffic to federal government sites, usajobs

*Interest in Government Jobs Propels USAJobs.gov Alongside Commercial Career Sites*

RESTON, VA, September 12, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an analysis of traffic to federal Government sites, which showed a decline over the past year despite attempts to make the government more digital-friendly. In July 2011, 87.6 million Americans visited a government site, representing 40.7 percent of the total U.S. online population. Although today’s audience represents an 11-percent increase in visitors vs. five years ago, this number is significantly lower than the 24-percent growth in the total U.S. Internet population over the same period of time. (more…)

Get the Light, Beat the Heat

By Guest PostSeptember 11, 2011Scienceandre anders, anna llordes, berkeley lab, breakthrough technology, carbon emissions in the united states, coloration efficiency, delia milliron, department of energy, doe, dynamic window coatings, electric charge, electrochromic materials, evan runnerstrom, guillermo garcia, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, near infrared frequency range, raffaella buonsanti, rueben mendelsberg, semiconductor nanocrystal coating material, semiconductor nanocrystals, smart window, thomas richardson

*Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop New Infrared Coating for Windows*

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have unveiled a semiconductor nanocrystal coating material capable of controlling heat from the sun while remaining transparent. Based on electrochromic materials, which use a jolt of electric charge to tint a clear window, this breakthrough technology is the first to selectively control the amount of near infrared radiation. This radiation, which leads to heating, passes through the film without affecting its visible transmittance. Such a dynamic system could add a critical energy-saving dimension to “smart window” coatings. (more…)

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