Mark Micallef looks at the state of play with US climate change politics ahead of talks on a deal on global warming in Copenhagen next week. … Read more

Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service. A new “translated search” tool lets people direct Google to seek results from Web pages written in an array of languages …

Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or “single-chip cloud computer,” that rethinks many of the approaches used in today’s designs for laptops, PCs and servers. … Read more

Bernard Crespi of Simon Fraser University and his colleagues analyzed data on all known genetic variants linked to both conditions. Crespi thinks that autism and schizophrenia are diametric opposites in how they affect gene activity …

While Web innovation is unpredictable, some clear trends are becoming apparent. Expect the following 10 themes to define the Web next year… Read more

A popular weed killer sprayed on cornfields across North America turns male frogs into females even at low levels, Ottawa biologists have found. … Read more

A virus that in nature infects only rabbits could become a cancer-fighting tool for humans. Myxoma virus kills cancerous blood-precursor cells in human bone marrow while sparing normal blood stem cells, a multidisciplinary team at …

With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature’s example: Adapt or die. … Read more

Homebuyers looking to buy a property may be able to use Google under radical plans being considered by the world’s most popular website. The American website giant is understood to be planning to launch an …

Their profits have rebounded, but shaky home-equity and credit-card debt—for starters—could change that. … Read more

One of the bright spots at the Copenhagen climate change summit could be the establishment of a scheme to protect forests and their carbon-absorbing capacity. … Read more

Sure, it will pay a hefty price for its debt woes. But the city-state’s open economy has attracted legions of foreign investors and serves as a model for its Gulf neighbors. … Read …

Professor David Mackay is the author of a book on sustainable energy. He calculates that even if we covered every available plot, offshore location and tidal estuary with wind, wave and tidal power we may …

Authorities were trucking water into drought-hit Australian towns, with supply in some places trickling to as little as eight hours, officials said. … Read more

A group of European scientists announced they successfully connected a robotic hand to a man who had lost an arm in a car accident, allowing him to control the prosthetic with his thoughts and feel …

A technology sea change is afoot at Crescent Girls’ School (CGS). Last year, the school became one of the select few Singapore schools to embark on FutureSchool@Singapore, an initiative by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) …

Scientists working on mice have highlighted a specific gene that, although carried by both sexes, appears to be active only in males. They believe it allows males to grow bigger bodies – but at the …

Up to now, extreme production temperatures made it impossible to equip metallic components with RFID chips during the operating process. At Euromold in Frankfurt, Fraunhofer researchers present a variation on a process that makes the …

Scientists from Eindhoven University in The Netherlands have for the first time grown pork meat in the laboratory by extracting cells from a live pig and growing them in a petri dish. … Read …

Nanotechnology and exponential manufacturing could help us make whatever humanity needs, atom by atom. Part three in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic. … Read more

A biosensor made from a common bacterium that can detect toxic metals in water won the Cornell Genetically Engineered Machines (GEM) student project team a bronze metal at a recent competition. … Read more

What does the “ClimateGate” affair mean for science? … Read more

Newspaper executives and editors gathered in India from around the world Tuesday heard calls to seek more payment for their content on the Internet as they decried their industry’s sharply falling advertising revenues. … …

The man was arrested by detectives at his home after hijacking hundreds of accounts to get skills, weapons and gain access to the players’ virtual piggy banks in an online game. … Read more

America and China are the big hitters, but other nations also punch above their weight. … Read more