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	Click to View in Browser 05/7/2014 Alibaba files for what may be biggest tech IPO SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alibaba gave investors a closer look at the scale and growth of the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut in an initial public offering (IPO) prospectus filed on Tuesday, the first step in what could be the largest technology debut in history.. Thai court rules PM must step down, with no end to turmoil in sight BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court found Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of violating the constitution on Wednesday and said she had to step down, throwing the country into further political turmoil, although ministers not implicated in her case can remain in office.. Tech stumble hits Europe, Asia shares, dollar weakens LONDON (Reuters) - European and Asian shares retreated and the dollar fell against the safe-haven yen on Wednesday as an overnight drop in U.S. tech stocks and the deepening Ukraine crisis hurt global market sentiment.. ABC extends Jimmy Kimmel late-night show for two more years NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jimmy Kimmel's late night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" has been extended for two more years, ABC said on Tuesday, sealing the late-night line-ups across the main U.S. networks for the next few years.. New York Jets become fourth NFL team sued by cheerleaders over wages NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Jets on Tuesday became the fourth National Football League team to be sued by former cheerleaders claiming wage theft and other labor law violations.. LinkedIn to let companies target members by language, location (Reuters) - LinkedIn Corp on Tuesday rolled out a new feature that allows companies to target audiences by language preference and geographical location as it seeks to grow and retain members across the world.. Scientists help Galapagos finches combat killer maggots WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Which nest is best to eliminate a blood-sucking pest? Scientists seeking to help endangered Galapagos Islands birds survive a deadly parasitic threat put that question to the test.. California police investigating stowaway who reached Hawaii: report (Reuters) - Police in San Jose, California, plan to interview a 15-year-old boy who gained international attention by surviving as a stowaway on a flight to Hawaii, and are looking into why he snuck into the local airport to climb into a Boeing 767, a police spokesman told a TV station on Tuesday.. Related Video Water shortages in Myanmar Palestinian worshippers scuffle with police on Israel's Independence day Great Debate For a new GM culture, pinpoint responsibility Rob Cox: Solving America's homegrown Putin dilemma A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today   The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today   » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend

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• Shrinking helped dinosaurs and birds to keep evolving
• Examining broken bones in 150 million-year-old predatory dinosaur
• Climate change is affecting every region of the U.S. and key sectors of the economy, federal report finds
• Small birds capitalize on weather patterns during epic migrations
• Redescription of the oldest-known dolphin skull sheds light on their origins and evolution
• International team maps nearly 200,000 global glaciers in quest for sea rise answers
• Magnetic fingerprint of our galaxy revealed
• Do we yawn to cool the brain? Yawning frequencies of people vary with temperature of the season
• Chimpanzees Show Similar Personality Traits to Humans
• Novel antioxidant makes old arteries seem young again, study shows
• 'Laughter Guy' dissects features of counterfeit chortling
• Galaxy's biggest telescope harnesses most precise measurement of spinning star
• Climate change threatens to worsen U.S. ozone pollution

Shrinking helped dinosaurs and birds to keep evolving Posted: 06 May 2014 04:07 PM PDT Although most dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, one dinosaur lineage survived and lives on today as a major evolutionary success story – the birds. A study that has 'weighed' hundreds of dinosaurs suggests that shrinking their bodies may have helped the group that became birds to continue exploiting new ecological niches throughout their evolution, and become hugely successful today.

Examining broken bones in 150 million-year-old predatory dinosaur Posted: 06 May 2014 04:06 PM PDT Scientists have used state-of-the-art imaging techniques to examine the cracks, fractures and breaks in the bones of a 150 million-year-old predatory dinosaur. The research sheds new light, literally, on the healing process that took place when these magnificent animals were still alive.

Climate change is affecting every region of the U.S. and key sectors of the economy, federal report finds Posted: 06 May 2014 02:23 PM PDT The U.S. Global Change Research Program has released the Third National Climate Assessment, the most comprehensive, authoritative, transparent scientific report on U.S. climate change impacts ever generated. The report confirms that climate change is affecting every region of the country and key sectors of the U.S. economy and society, underscoring the need to combat the threats climate change presents and increase the preparedness and resilience of American communities.

Small birds capitalize on weather patterns during epic migrations Posted: 06 May 2014 10:55 AM PDT In one of the greatest feats of endurance in the biological world, millions of tiny songbirds -- many weighing less than an ounce -- migrate thousands of miles to Central and South America each year. Now scientists are finding out how these featherweights do it: using elliptical routes that take advantage of prevailing wind patterns to save calories.

Redescription of the oldest-known dolphin skull sheds light on their origins and evolution Posted: 06 May 2014 10:04 AM PDT Dolphins are the most diverse family of living marine mammals and include species such as the bottlenose dolphin and the killer whale. However, their early evolution and fossil record has been steeped in mystery due to lack of good specimens. A new article re-describes the oldest species of dolphin with a new name: Eodelphis kabatensis.

International team maps nearly 200,000 global glaciers in quest for sea rise answers Posted: 06 May 2014 09:02 AM PDT Glaciologists have mapped virtually all of the world's glaciers -- including their locations and sizes -- allowing for calculations of their volumes and ongoing contributions to global sea rise as the world warms.

Magnetic fingerprint of our galaxy revealed Posted: 06 May 2014 09:02 AM PDT Astrophysicists have released an unprecedented map of the entire sky that charts the magnetic field shaping our Milky Way Galaxy. The map reveals magnetic field lines running parallel to the plane of the Galaxy, as well as great loops and whorls associated with nearby clouds of gas and dust.

Do we yawn to cool the brain? Yawning frequencies of people vary with temperature of the season Posted: 06 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT Why do we yawn? We tend to yawn before sleep and after waking, when we are bored or under stimulated. We yawn in the anticipation of important events and when we are under stress. What do all of these have in common? Researchers highlight a link with thermoregulation, and in particular, brain cooling.

Chimpanzees Show Similar Personality Traits to Humans Posted: 06 May 2014 08:56 AM PDT Chimpanzees have almost the same personality traits as humans, and they are structured almost identically, according to new work. The research also shows some of those traits have a neurobiological basis, and that those traits vary according to the biological sex of the individual chimpanzee.

Novel antioxidant makes old arteries seem young again, study shows Posted: 06 May 2014 06:49 AM PDT An antioxidant that targets specific cell structures -- mitochondria -- may be able to reverse some of the negative effects of aging on arteries, reducing the risk of heart disease, according to a new study. When the research team gave old mice -- the equivalent of 70- to 80-year-old humans -- water containing an antioxidant known as MitoQ for four weeks, their arteries functioned as well as the arteries of mice with an equivalent human age of just 25 to 35 years.

'Laughter Guy' dissects features of counterfeit chortling Posted: 06 May 2014 06:49 AM PDT Ever wonder how often you fool your boss or in-laws by pretending to laugh at their dumb jokes? The answer is probably around one-third of the time, according to new research by a communication expert who conducted research on fake laughs. When your fake laughs fall short of convincing, tiny subtleties of your breathing are probably giving you away, suggests one researcher.

Galaxy's biggest telescope harnesses most precise measurement of spinning star Posted: 06 May 2014 04:44 AM PDT An international team of astronomers has made a measurement of a distant neutron star that is one million times more precise than the previous world's best. The researchers were able to use the interstellar medium, the 'empty' space between stars and galaxies that is made up of sparsely spread charged particles, as a giant lens to magnify and look closely at the radio wave emission from a small rotating neutron star.

Climate change threatens to worsen U.S. ozone pollution Posted: 05 May 2014 10:05 AM PDT Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new research. The detailed study shows that Americans face the risk of a 70 percent increase in unhealthy summertime ozone levels by 2050. This is because warmer temperatures and other changes in the atmosphere related to a changing climate, including higher atmospheric levels of methane, spur chemical reactions that lead to ozone.

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• NASA's Curiosity rover drills sandstone slab on Mars
• Graphene for real-world devices: New research in phonon scattering sheds more light on graphene as a replacement for silicon
• Staying on task is difficult in the automated cockpit
• Neutron star magnetic fields: Not so turbulent, after all?
• Two-lock box delivers cancer therapy: Nano-delivery system targets cancer cells
• Can you tell a person's gender by their video game avatar?
• Tool for uncovering bot-controlled Twitter accounts: Research designed to counter misinformation campaigns
• Magnetic fingerprint of our galaxy revealed
• Mobile health apps lack behavior-change techniques
• Predator-prey made simple: Simplifying studies of predator-prey interactions and other 'bistable' systems
• Working to cure 'dry eye' disease
• Keeping abreast of Car2X technology developments
• Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence?
• A bird's eye view of fish farms: Drones making major advance into aquaculture industry
• Nanocellulose sponges to combat oil spills
• Galaxy's biggest telescope harnesses most precise measurement of spinning star
• Intelligent vehicle can detect pedestrians at nighttime

NASA's Curiosity rover drills sandstone slab on Mars Posted: 06 May 2014 04:11 PM PDT Portions of rock powder collected by the hammering drill on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from a slab of Martian sandstone will be delivered to the rover's internal instruments.

Graphene for real-world devices: New research in phonon scattering sheds more light on graphene as a replacement for silicon Posted: 06 May 2014 11:22 AM PDT Graphene is an excellent conductor of electricity and heat, but a number of practical challenges must be overcome before it can emerge as a replacement for silicon. Scientists are exploring novel ways of supporting and connecting graphene using experimental and computational methods.

Staying on task is difficult in the automated cockpit Posted: 06 May 2014 11:21 AM PDT A new study indicates that pilots may have a hard time concentrating on the automated systems that now carry out many of the tasks once completed by humans. Pilots reported an increase in big-picture flight-related thoughts when using higher levels of automation, but when the flight was progressing according to plan and pilots were not interacting with the automation, their thoughts were more likely to wander.

Neutron star magnetic fields: Not so turbulent, after all? Posted: 06 May 2014 10:55 AM PDT Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe -- as much as a billion times more powerful than any human-made electromagnet. But some neutron stars are much more strongly magnetized than others, and this disparity has long puzzled astrophysicists. Physicists have shed new light on the expected geometry of the magnetic field in neutron stars.

Two-lock box delivers cancer therapy: Nano-delivery system targets cancer cells Posted: 06 May 2014 10:04 AM PDT A tunable virus that works like a safe deposit box has been developed by scientists. It takes two keys to open it and release its therapy for cancer and other diseases. The adeno-associated virus (AAV) developed by bioengineers unlocks only in the presence of two selected proteases, enzymes that cut up other proteins for disposal. Because certain proteases are elevated at tumor sites, the viruses can be designed to target and destroy the cancer cells.

Can you tell a person's gender by their video game avatar? Posted: 06 May 2014 10:04 AM PDT According to a new study a male gamer who chooses to play as a female character will still display signs of his true gender. A sexy wood elf with pointy ears. A hulking ogre with blue skin. An intimidating heroine with a buxom breastplate. When it comes to computer games, players can choose to be anyone or anything. But gamers don't always mask their true identities with online avatars.

Tool for uncovering bot-controlled Twitter accounts: Research designed to counter misinformation campaigns Posted: 06 May 2014 10:02 AM PDT Complex networks researchers have developed a tool that helps anyone determine whether a Twitter account is operated by a human or an automated software application known as a social bot.

Magnetic fingerprint of our galaxy revealed Posted: 06 May 2014 09:02 AM PDT Astrophysicists have released an unprecedented map of the entire sky that charts the magnetic field shaping our Milky Way Galaxy. The map reveals magnetic field lines running parallel to the plane of the Galaxy, as well as great loops and whorls associated with nearby clouds of gas and dust.

Mobile health apps lack behavior-change techniques Posted: 06 May 2014 09:02 AM PDT Behavior-change techniques are not well represented in the marketing materials for top-rated physical-activity apps, according to a team of researchers. They also found that two types of physical-activity apps are available on the market -- those that focus on educating users on how to perform different exercises and those that focus on supporting users' motivation for physical activity.

Predator-prey made simple: Simplifying studies of predator-prey interactions and other 'bistable' systems Posted: 06 May 2014 08:56 AM PDT Scientists have developed a way to dramatically reduce the complexity of modeling "bistable" systems which involve the interaction of two evolving species where one changes faster than the other ("slow-fast systems"). The work paves the way for easier computational simulations and predictions involving such systems, which are found in fields as diverse as chemistry, biology and ecology.

Working to cure 'dry eye' disease Posted: 06 May 2014 08:56 AM PDT The eye is an exquisitely sensitive system with many aspects that remain somewhat of a mystery -- both in the laboratory and in the clinic. Mathematicians and optometrists are working to change this by gaining a better understanding of the inner workings of tear film distribution over the eye's surface. This, in turn, may lead to better treatments or a cure for the tear film disease known as "dry eye."

Keeping abreast of Car2X technology developments Posted: 06 May 2014 06:47 AM PDT Car2X technologies make vehicles "intelligent" and allow them to communicate with the objects around them. Encouraged by the numerous opportunities for developing new technologies and patents this brings with it, large and small technology companies alike are rushing to capture their share of this future market. A new patent index systematically shows companies where to find patent gaps and opportunities in the Car2X technology field.

Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? Posted: 06 May 2014 04:46 AM PDT The SETI project scientists are known for tracking possible extraterrestrial signals, but now they are also considering sending messages from Earth telling of our position. A researcher questions this idea in view of the results from a survey taken by students, revealing the general level of ignorance about the cosmos and the influence of religion when tackling these matters.

A bird's eye view of fish farms: Drones making major advance into aquaculture industry Posted: 06 May 2014 04:46 AM PDT Is a facility adequately anchored? Are the wet-well vessels in the right place at the right time? Do the net pens have weaknesses which can result in escapes? It's now possible, with the help of a couple of key strokes and techno assistance from above, literally to obtain an overview of all these issues.

Nanocellulose sponges to combat oil spills Posted: 06 May 2014 04:45 AM PDT A new, absorbent material could be of assistance in future oil spill accidents: a chemically modified nanocellulose sponge. The light material absorbs the oil spill, remains floating on the surface and can then be recovered. The absorbent can be produced in an environmentally-friendly manner from recycled paper, wood or agricultural by-products.

Galaxy's biggest telescope harnesses most precise measurement of spinning star Posted: 06 May 2014 04:44 AM PDT An international team of astronomers has made a measurement of a distant neutron star that is one million times more precise than the previous world's best. The researchers were able to use the interstellar medium, the 'empty' space between stars and galaxies that is made up of sparsely spread charged particles, as a giant lens to magnify and look closely at the radio wave emission from a small rotating neutron star.

Intelligent vehicle can detect pedestrians at nighttime Posted: 05 May 2014 10:04 AM PDT Researchers have designed a new pedestrian detection system for cars which works in low visibility conditions; the system is made up of infrared cameras which capture body heat.

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Keeping abreast of Car2X technology developments Posted: 06 May 2014 06:47 AM PDT Car2X technologies make vehicles "intelligent" and allow them to communicate with the objects around them. Encouraged by the numerous opportunities for developing new technologies and patents this brings with it, large and small technology companies alike are rushing to capture their share of this future market. A new patent index systematically shows companies where to find patent gaps and opportunities in the Car2X technology field.

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Tool for uncovering bot-controlled Twitter accounts: Research designed to counter misinformation campaigns Posted: 06 May 2014 10:02 AM PDT Complex networks researchers have developed a tool that helps anyone determine whether a Twitter account is operated by a human or an automated software application known as a social bot.

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