Competition with Google likely to improve the internet experience for educators and students, among millions of other web users.
The highly competitive web-search business became a lot more interesting today when Microsoft Corp. made an unsolicited bid to purchase Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion--far more than Yahoo shares were worth when the stock market closed yesterday.
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New podcasts aim to make science more accessible - and enjoyable
Seeking to make science more fun and easily accessible for today’s students, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has launched Bytesize Science, an educational, entertaining new podcast for young listeners. Bytesize Science translates cutting-edge scientific discoveries from ACS’s 36 peer-reviewed journals into stories for young listeners about science, health, medicine,energy, food, and other topics.