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Clean tech investments surge 55 percent in third quarter as venture capital firms pour $1.6 billion into U.S. sector that sees hottest action in solar.
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Just as dozens of expansion projects are being completed, airlines are cutting back.
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Gene scientists delving into the 5,300-year-old remains of Oetzi the Iceman, the mysterious mummified man found high in the Alps, say he most likely has no modern-day relatives.
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The ancient Phoenicians may be largely forgotten, but they’re not gone. Rome destroyed the Phoenicians’ greatest city – Carthage – centuries ago, but new genetic studies indicate that as many as one in 17 …
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New research from the University of Bristol brings stem cell therapies for heart disease one step closer. The findings reveal that our bodies’ ability to respond to an internal ‘mayday’ signal may hold the …
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As businesses have begun cutting jobs, New York leads all state in number of first-time unemployment claims.
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Game companies and social networks hope digital figures will drive revenues.
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University of Utah scientists successfully created a sensitive prototype device that could test for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously by acting like a credit card-swipe machine to scan a card loaded with …
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GE Consumer & Industrial announced today that it is introducing a program that will provide the next step in home energy cost savings for consumers while helping utility companies better manage the demand for …
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Amphibians around the world are on the decline from disease. In an article in this week’s issue of the journal Nature, Jason Rohr of the University of South Florida (USF) and colleagues revealed that …
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After years of flooding Americans with credit card offers and sky-high credit lines, lenders are sharply curtailing both, just as an eroding U.S. economy squeezes consumers.
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UC San Diego bioengineers have created the first stable, fast and programmable genetic clock that reliably keeps time by the blinking of fluorescent proteins inside E. coli cells. The clock’s blink rate changes when …
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Nanorobots that are introduced into the body to eradicate tumor cells or clean out clogged arteries are not just science fiction; they are a realistic vision of the technological possibilities of the not-so-distant future. …
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Energy companies must continue to invest despite the downturn, the chief executive of Total, Christophe de Margerie, said.
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A new class of minerals found on Mars suggests liquid water stayed on the planet’s surface a billion years later than first thought.
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A new standard that allows UK firms to measure the size of their products’ carbon footprints is launched.
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The planet is headed for an ecological "credit crunch", according to a report issued by conservation groups.
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New technology lets retailers cater to customer habits.
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Small businesses are upset that banks are still reluctant to lend to them, despite the government bailout.
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The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to essentially give up on print.
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Arctic sea ice thickness "plummeted" last winter, thinning by as much as 49cm in some regions, data shows.
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In a report published by the US Army’s 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and later posted to the Federation of American Scientists website, the U.S. Intelligence community has labeled Twitter, amongst other Web 2.0-like tools, …
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Such a merger would shake up the U.S. industrial landscape and create an automaker with about a third of the U.S. car market by sales.
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Closely integrated into the global financial system, Denmark has discovered that ice-cold credit markets cannot warm up without easing elsewhere. And the same appears true of large countries as well.
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For large companies, the costs associated with malware now amount to an average of more than $125,000 per month. The costs of repairing malware attacks and corporate data leaks have increased along with employee …


