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Book Review: Fixing a Broken Global Economy (Business Week)
October 9, 2009 – 7:37 am | Comments Off

Stephen Roach, who predicted the downturn, says the West and Asia need to trade spending habits…. Read more

New digital technology shakes up book industry (Mercury News)
October 9, 2009 – 7:37 am | Comments Off

Advances in digital technologies give writers many avenues to publish and distribute their literary dreams…. Read more

Liver cells grown from patients’ skin cells (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:34 pm | Comments Off

Scientists at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have successfully produced liver cells from patients’ skin cells opening the possibility of treating a wide range of diseases that affect liver function…. Read more

Toward better solar cells: Chemists gain control of light-harvesting paths (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:34 pm | Comments Off

University of Florida chemists have pioneered a method to tease out promising molecular structures for capturing energy, a step that could speed the development of more efficient, cheaper solar cells…. Read more

Are mobiles and social networking sites changing the way we behave?(PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:34 pm | Comments Off

How dependent have we become on mobile phones, and are social networking sites changing the nature of our relationships with other people? A three-year Oxford University study is to address these issues…. Read more

South Korea targets world electric car market (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:33 pm | Comments Off

President Lee Myung-Bak offered full government support to help South Korean firms secure about 10 percent of the global electric car market by 2015…. Read more

Nanometric butterfly wings created (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:33 pm | Comments Off

A team of researchers from the State University of Pennsylvania (USA) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) have developed a technique to replicate biological structures, such as butterfly wings, on a nano scale. The …

Asteroid impact threat lowered (CBC)
October 8, 2009 – 8:33 pm | Comments Off

NASA has downgraded the threat from a near-Earth asteroid…. Read more

Bioengineer uses nanoparticles to target drugs (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:33 pm | Comments Off

Clemson bioengineer Frank Alexis is designing new ways to target drugs and reduce the chances for side effects…. Read more

New designs for smarter buildings (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:33 pm | Comments Off

After two years of design, experimentation, fund-raising and building, the University of Arizona’s Solar Decathlon team has completed construction of its 800-square-foot solar-powered house on the National Mall in Washington, D.C…. Read more

Google Flu Trends tool comes to Canada (CBC)
October 8, 2009 – 8:33 pm | Comments Off

Google Flu Trends, an internet search tool that tracks the spread of influenza as an early warning of outbreaks, has expanded to Canada and 15 other countries…. Read more

Reversing brain drain (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:33 pm | Comments Off

A battered U.S. economy has sent many of the country’s leading minds packing for "greener" shores. America is losing thousands of top scientists, academics and biotech executives to cities like Singapore, which offer more lucrative …

South Korea’s little firefighting robots (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:32 pm | Comments Off

Two South Korean firms have developed mini firefighting robots to help human firefighters safely plan their course of action before entering a blazing building…. Read more

Tropical regions to be hardest hit by fisheries shifts caused by climate change (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:32 pm | Comments Off

Major shifts in fisheries distribution due to climate change will affect food security in tropical regions most adversely, according to a study led by the Sea Around Us Project at The University of British Columbia…. …

Leafy greens present growing threat of food-borne illness, researchers say (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 8:32 pm | Comments Off

A growing threat for food-borne illnesses comes attractively packaged, is stunningly convenient and is increasingly popular with shoppers looking for healthy meals: ready-to-eat leafy greens that make putting together a green salad as easy as …

Warning over global oil ‘decline’ (BBC)
October 8, 2009 – 8:32 pm | Comments Off

There is a "significant risk" that global production of conventional oil could "peak" and decline by 2020, a report suggests…. Read more

How cities drive plants extinct (BBC)
October 8, 2009 – 5:24 am | Comments Off

How towns and cities cause the extinction of local plants is revealed for the first time by a new analysis…. Read more

Stem cells which ‘fool immune system’ may provide vaccination for cancer (PhysOrg)
October 8, 2009 – 5:24 am | Comments Off

Scientists from the United States and China have revealed the potential for human stem cells to provide a vaccination against colon cancer, reports a study published in Stem Cells…. Read more

In Defense of Godin, Google, and Open Systems (Business Week)
October 8, 2009 – 5:24 am | Comments Off

The blogger and the search engine spark separate but related controversies by reminding us that we’ve lost control of our brands, information, and ideas… Read more

New ‘consumer-intelligence’ technology will compile detailed profiles (Mercury News)
October 7, 2009 – 8:35 pm | Comments Off

A new startup called Causata, led by Paul Phillips and boasting a proven team of techies and $4.5 million in venture funding from Accel Partners, aims to push customer-intelligence technology to an unprecedented level…. Read …

Germany’s Answer: The Apprentice (Business Week)
October 7, 2009 – 8:35 pm | Comments Off

A national system of vocational training reduces joblessness… Read more

Scribd tries to help newspapers share documents (Boston Globe)
October 7, 2009 – 8:35 pm | Comments Off

Ever wonder where newspapers and blogs get some of their tantalizing tidbits? The online document-sharing service Scribd (pronounced "Scribbed") is trying to make it easier to find out. Scribd is giving away a piece of …

Next: the pill bottle cap with a cell phone (PhysOrg)
October 7, 2009 – 8:35 pm | Comments Off

IPhones aren’t the only cutting-edge devices on AT&T Inc.’s wireless network. A startup is set to announce that it’s making pill-bottle caps that use Ma Bell’s network to remind you to take your medicine…. Read …

FCC chairman warns of ‘looming spectrum crisis’ for mobile devices (Mercury News)
October 7, 2009 – 8:35 pm | Comments Off

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission warns of a "looming spectrum crisis" if the government fails to find new ways to ensure there is enough bandwidth for mobile devices…. Read more

The Fall of the Maya: ‘They Did it to Themselves’ (PhysOrg)
October 7, 2009 – 8:35 pm | Comments Off

For 1200 years, the Maya dominated Central America. At their peak around 900 A.D., Maya cities teemed with more than 2,000 people per square mile — comparable to modern Los Angeles County. Even in rural …