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Close to 100,000 students, faculty and staff members of the University of Hawaii will receive credit monitoring and fraud protection services for a period of two years after the educational institution admitted to a number of five data breaches.
The reputation of the University of Hawaii was stained by a lot of unfo... |
30 January 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Officials with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce that their Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) is turning 100 this year. Throughout 2012, a number of events and manifestations will mark this momentous occasion.
The installation is located on the rim of Mount Kilauea's caldera, in the Hawaii Vo... |
18 January 2012
06:03 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new study conducted by biologist Shawn Noren, it would appear that bottlenose dolphin females swim a lot slower and more awkwardly when pregnant. This makes them significantly more vulnerable to predators, and decreases their chances of survival.
The expert and his group – all... |
24 November 2011
10:05 GMT |
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Apple is featuring an original piece on its Hot News section to show how students at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, use Macs and iDevices to research class assignments and achieve better and better results.As the story goes, teachers at the school noticed that students were immediately drawn to interactive tools... |
21 November 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Researchers at Purdue University announce that a species of insects called odorous house ants has arrived on Hawaii, after being a pest in the contiguous United States for many years. Etomologist Grzegorz Buczkowski says that the insects are unlikely to depart their new home any time soon.
“Odorous house ants ... |
2 November 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Google has sent a bunch of its people, who work on Google+, to Hawaii. The excuse is that this is all work-related, but it seems that is more like a 'job well done (so far)' thank you from Google rather than anything else. The thing is not exactly public, but when so many people are flown half-way across th... |
1 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Sustainable tourism promoters have yet another reason to choose Hawaii as their destination, as the efforts of establishing an EV charging infrastructure seem to be on the right track.AeroVironment installed today the first electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at the Marriott Waikiki to serve hotel guests. This co... |
16 September 2011
09:28 GMT |
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After so many years of wondering about this geologically-remarkable chain of Pacific Ocean islands, experts now finally managed to get a clearer picture of what's hiding underneath Earth's crust there.Usually, volcanic archipelagos such as this one – featuring both active and inactive volcanoes &ndash... |
27 May 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Following the recent eruption of a volcano in Hawaii, NASA has decided to begin a new investigations campaign, whose main goal will be to get more insight into what's going on beneath the Earth's surface at this location. The processes underlying volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and the formation of tsunamis... |
2 April 2011
03:21 GMT |
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A collaboration of American researchers has recently created a new type of carbon-mapping technology, that they say can be used to map the reserves of the chemical in Hawaii's forests. The group details its achievement in the latest online issue of the scientific journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environ... |
15 March 2011
11:04 GMT |
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Officials at the University of Hawaii announce that they received late last week the necessary permit to construct a $1.3 billion space observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, on Hawaii's Big Island. The volcano has been dormant for many years, and so the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), operated... |
2 March 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Since the red shrimp is an endangered species because of the continuous loss of its unique habitat, scientists would better start finding out all there is to know about it before it becomes extinct. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), molecular biologist Scott Santos and his team at Auburn Unive... |
20 December 2010
08:08 GMT |
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The Hawaiian Archipelago, more precisely its Leeward side, is the perfect place to construct a renewable energy power plant, experts say. According to a new series of studies, this is the ideal location to construct facilities that rely on the ocean's seawater to drive impressively large turbines. These heat eng... |
4 August 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A recent discovery brightens astronomers' day as they spotted a brown dwarf tightly orbiting a young sun-like star. This discovery was made possible by the Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager, or NICI, on the international 8-meter Gemini-South Telescope in Chile and the lucky finders are part of a team led by Uni... |
30 July 2010
06:03 GMT |
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Oceanographers have always known that submarine trenches are hot spots for biodiversity, but until not long ago, they only looked at such structures located in the vicinity of landmasses. Now, for the first time ever, a team of researchers from Hawaii has taken a closer look at marine trenches located far out in the ... |
8 April 2010
14:01 GMT |
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The US Hawaii Islands are located on top of a very sensitive tectonic and volcanic center, which is part of the Ring of Fire, the hypothesized circle that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. This area features intense volcanic activity, as well as earthquakes, all caused by the subduction processes that take place between t... |
4 December 2009
03:04 GMT |
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A venture between two American universities and a group of Canadian ones will result in one of the largest and most powerful ground-based telescopes in the world by 2018. At a project diameter of 30 meters (98.5 feet), the mammoth telescope will be constructed atop Mauna Kea, in the US island of Hawaii. This location... |
22 July 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), led by experts Kimberly Selkoe and Benjamin Halpern, have recently published a new scientific study in the journal Coral Reefs, in which they detail possible methods of ensuring that th... |
8 April 2009
09:53 GMT |
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A little while back we were reporting that Steve Thomas, co-founder of security software company Webroot, had gone missing. At the time the police were still hoping to find him, although they had no lead to go on. His dead body has been discovered near the base of Nuuanu Pali Lookout in Oahu, which is 985 feet high (... |
15 July 2008
08:11 GMT |
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Webroot, a company that specializes in providing antivirus and antispyware security solutions, was co-founded by Steven Thomas back in 1997. It seems that the 36 year old millionaire has gone missing from a hotel in Hawaii, last week. While the local authorities are trying to find him, his family prays that he is saf... |
10 July 2008
06:23 GMT |
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Even though Hawaii is a warm place, Apple can still leave folks there out in the cold. This is the case of an investor who has been unable to participate in proxy voting for Apple's annual meeting for years. The reason? Because he lives in State 5.0 of the USA.The respective Five-O resident copied the letter he ... |
8 May 2008
16:21 GMT |
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AT&T announced the launching of a 3G wireless broadband service in Oahu, Hawaii, changing how, when and where people in Hawaii will access the Internet, use e-mail and entertainment services. During the last three years, AT&T invested about $49 million in Hawaii's wireless network, and the 3G network launching c... |
14 November 2007
10:33 GMT |
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Oh, no. No, no, no. Really, this can't be happening. I mean, I just can't take the tension anymore, the psychological pressure and the inner fight. There are two sides of me battling to take control, the one that thinks Britney Spears is a deluded alcoholic drugged-out moron who has no idea what to do with ... |
3 October 2007
06:52 GMT |
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Isn't it sort of weird to see Nicole Richie pregnant? Don't get me wrong - it's not the pregnant part that I find just a bit strange - after all, pregnant is the way to go if you want to be the IT lady this season. Just look at all the celebrities either already pregnant, hoping to get pregnant, trying... |
24 September 2007
04:28 GMT |
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Themed computer mice are not something new, but most of them are more in the lines of penguins, hearts and so on. Well, if you just got tired of looking for a more out of the ordinary computer mouse, here it is. In fact two of them. Hawaiian themed computer mice, one with a red and one with a blue theme that will say... |
17 September 2007
10:29 GMT |
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