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Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:00

Video: Dolphins Blasting Into School of Fish

By Brandon Keim
August 24, 2011 |
11:33 am |
Categories: Animals

Dolphins and gannets blast through a shimmering, pulsing vortex of sardines in these up-close glimpses of an underwater buffet.

The video was taken by biologist...

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Mozilla's WebAPI Wants to Replace Native Apps with HTML5

Mozilla has launched an ambitious new project aimed at breaking down the proprietary app systems on today’s mobile devices. The project, dubbed WebAPI, is Mozilla’s effort to provide a consistent, cross-platform, web-based API for mobile app developers. Using WebAPI developers would write HTML5 applications rather than native apps for iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms.

Mozilla isn’t just talking about WebAPI, it’s already hard at work and plans to develop the APIs necessary to provide “a basic HTML5 phone experience” within six months. After that the APIs will be submitted to the W3C for...

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Cost of Compassion: Drug Resistance in Military Hospitals

Back in June, there was an unnerving report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that NDM-1, the “Indian supergene” that renders common hospital-acquired infections practically untreatable, had been found in the military hospital at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The gene was being carried by a gut bacterium, Providencia stuartii, that was causing septicemia in an Afghan national who had been taken in by the military hospital. The particular strain of NDM-1 could be treated only by a single drug, aztreonam; it was resistant to everything else. Unsurprisingly, the victim died.

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