Technology is making transparency easier than ever and with the advent of electronic medical records, you might think doctors and other caregivers would embrace transparency for patients. After all, in the US and most modern counties, you have the
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Cities built by players are part of larger online regions
Ongoing problems with the latest version of SimCity led Amazon to briefly stop selling the game.

The web retailer stopped sales late on 7 March as players reported continued problems with
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Joshua L. Hood, MD, PhD

Nanoparticles (purple) carrying melittin (green) fuse with HIV (small circles with spiked outer ring), destroying the virus’s protective envelope. Molecular bumpers (small red ovals) prevent the nanoparticles from harming
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A petition pleading for President Barack Obama to push back on a decision that made unlocking cellphones illegal will receive an official response from the White House. With two days to spare, the petition has become one of the first to surpass a
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Female Vaejovis brysoni in natural habitat (Rob Bryson Jr. / Richard Ayrey / Michael Webber)

The Santa Catalina Mountains overlook the city of Tucson, Arizona. Amazingly, in the 21st century, there are still new species to be discovered right here
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Ectopic eyes allow tadpoles to «see» out of their sides and tails.
Photo by David McNew/Getty Images

Recently, we have witnessed remarkable, fictional-sounding advancements in science and medicine. There’s a guy who can hear color, another with
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A team of University of Maryland students will be competing for a $250,000 human-powered helicopter prize. The prize requires a flight of over 60 seconds in which the vehicle reaches 3 meters altitude. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun video)
By
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Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference moments ago, Time Warner Cable's Chief Financial Officer Irene Esteves seemed dismissive of the impact Google Fiber is having on consumers. «We're in the business of delivering what consumers
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Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal suggested that Google is in talks with record labels to start its own Spotify-like music streaming service. In the same article, the newsgroup also reported that El Goog is looking to do something similar with
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