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Tufts University has received federal funding to develop chemical robots that will be able to squeeze into spaces as tiny as 1 centimeter, then morph into something 10 times larger, and ultimately biodegrade. The …

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Impoverished countries are finding it more difficult to import the food they need, after at least 29 countries cut their exports.

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High hopes for South Korea’s new high-tech city.

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Weedy ancestors of our food crops, some scientists predict, will cope far better with coming climatic changes than their domesticated descendants.

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High gasoline prices and the economic downturn are changing the market far faster than anyone anticipated.

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Ancient noisemakers unearthed in Mexico’s ruins were once dismissed by museums as toys. But modern-day researchers are using them to discover the complex role that sound played in Pre-Columbian society.

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Pick up your forks and knives, and let the revolution start now. That’s the rallying cry of the organizers of Slow Food Nation, an event designed to change the way people eat. Fifty thousand …

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The next generation of military robots won’t just be humanoids like the Terminator.

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A high-powered group of international experts is warning a "no-holds-barred" race for Arctic resources could shape up unless countries around the world move faster to reach agreements on development, safety and environmental standards.

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A 10-fold increase in productivity per unit of carbon emissions over the next decades would balance the need of the world to slow down global warming while maintaining economic health, according to a report …

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There’s a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading ice scientist says.

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When tomatoes ripen in our gardens, we watch them turn gradually from hard, green globules to brightly colored, aromatic, and tasty fruits. This familiar and seemingly commonplace transformation masks a seething mass of components …

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Climate change is expected to exacerbate drought events throughout the world, resulting in large-scale ecosystem alteration and failure of drought-sensitive crops.

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Mars and I.B.M. are collaborating on a five-year project to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome.

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The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the …

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The EU telecommunications commissioner, Viviane Reding, is leading a campaign to cut mobile-roaming fees, saying the 27-nation EU represents a single domestic market.

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This is your brain on Facebook. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine used concepts borrowed from the popular social networking site to analyze the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. They found …

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Thousands of wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of a £100bn plan to boost renewable energy.

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The current ruthless competition between energy and food markets, amplified by international speculation in commodities and agricultural land, is only a modest portent of the chaos that could soon grow exponentially from the convergence …

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Environment, science & technology: Government aims to remove biggest obstacle to renewable energy: access to the National Grid.

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With international travellers projected to almost double by 2020, the most significant increases are expected to take place in markets like China, India and destinations in South-East Asia. The Gulf States and emerging Eastern …

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The accord by European Parliament and government negotiators adds EU and foreign airlines in January 2012 to Europe’s emissions-trading system.

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German business ties with China are of growing importance, buoying the export sector that has powered growth in Europe’s largest economy in recent years.

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In a radical shift, Japan’s staid Big Three Toyota, Honda and Nissan are plowing into exotic terrain, from Saharan Africa to the former Soviet Union to the scorching plains of southern India. Workers assembling …

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Reeling from a relentless rise in precious metal prices, Japanese automakers are banking on new know-how, including nanotechnology, to clean up car exhausts in place of platinum and related metals.

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The world needs a shift as radical as the Industrial Revolution to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 while safeguarding economic growth, the McKinsey Global Institute said.

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Global warming probably will mean more illegal immigration and humanitarian disasters and possibly expanding the terrorism threat against the U.S., intelligence agencies say.

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Rising oil prices and improvements in battery technology are fueling new interest in developing electric cars. Spencer Michels reports on how industry giants and start-up car companies alike plan to release new vehicles by …

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Military binoculars may soon get information directly from the brains of the soldiers using them.

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Researchers from the Center for Quantum Computing Technology, have built a wire only three atoms thick, opening the possibility of new chip architectures.

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Environment, science & technology: Intelligent armed vehicles that use GPS and laser technology are close to being deployed in hotspots.

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Scientists think a giant asteroid impact can explain why the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars look so different.

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Think only celebrities, high-ranking professionals and the wealthy can enjoy having personal assistants at their beck and call?

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Poverty is receding at a rate unsurpassed in history; and the power of the emerging dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers and innovators worldwide have only just now begun to transform our world.

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Demand will grow by half over the next two decades with continued heavy reliance on environmentally troublesome fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicted.

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The producers in Canada must persuade critics that they will protect the environment while spending billions of dollars exploiting new oil sands projects.

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Companies are to receive European funding to develop technology that helps older people continue living independently at home.

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Shell says government and industry planning now could stabilize greenhouse gas levels by 2020

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Report uncovers hospital menace Researchers in the Netherlands have discovered that RFID systems, intended for tracking hospital kit, can fatally interfere with life-support systems from a distance of 30 centimetres.

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Skyrocketing energy prices are inflating the costs of living on the distant edges of metropolitan areas.

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Dow Chemical said Tuesday that it would raise prices of its products by as much as 25 percent in July, while Posco, the South Korean steel maker, announced it was raising steel prices by …

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A "perfect storm" of diseases can get unleashed by the kind of extreme swings in weather expected with global warming, triggering mass die-offs of wildlife or livestock, research now reveals.

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The future of agriculture: Value or Volume? Agriculture arguably represents the number one success story of human development, underpinning all of our major expansions of civilisation and population on Earth.

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Many a professor dreams of revolution. But Norman T. Uphoff, working in a leafy corner of the Cornell University campus, is leading an inconspicuous one centred on solving the global food crisis. The secret, …

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Any consolidation is expected to be centered around the three dominant carriers in Europe: British Airways, Lufthansa and Air France-KLM.

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Environment, science & technology: Scale of problem will fuel criticism that the world cannot rely on carbon markets to tackle climate change

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The high cost of fuel is threatening to slow the decades-old migration away from cities, while exacerbating the housing downturn in the U.S. suburbs.

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Researchers at UC Riverside say that they have devised a simple technique for controlling the "spin" of electrons and current flow, which may help change how information in computers can be transported or stored.

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To rescue GM it will take not only brilliant execution of new vehicles, but strong leadership at the top.

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Ultra-small products have produced a series of breakthroughs that could help clean up the environment, but some properties of these tiny particles are unknown, and potentially harmful.

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3-D is already becoming a hit in theaters. Now Hollywood, TV makers and technology firms are trying to bring the eye-popping visuals-with-depth into your living room

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Researchers are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers.

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U.S. mayors are adding their voices to those raising concerns about energy produced from Alberta’s vast oilsands.

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If the United States does not act soon to address health-care costs, federal and state governments as well as American businesses could face a cascading fiscal crisis with devastating long-term consequences, says a new …

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Lots of corporations are dabbling in virtual worlds, but no one has found the killer app–yet.

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Uranium has fallen by 57 percent over the past year, but analysts say demand for new reactors should bolster prices.

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The world’s major cities are also among the planet’s worst polluters but they have the solutions to most of their problems at their fingertips, a leading …

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Software vendor Oracle Corp. said it formed a health sciences global business unit focused on software for health care industries.

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Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world’s energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University. Using …

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Baosteel, China’s largest steel maker, agreed Monday to pay up to 97 percent more for its 2008 iron ore in a term contract with the Australian miner Rio Tinto.

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Chemists in Ohio have discovered that half of all of the known chemical compounds in the world have an amazing similarity in sharing only 143 basic molecular shapes.

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Japan is poised to provide subsidies and tax breaks for solar panel makers next year to maintain its hold on the red-hot industry, two officials at its Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said.

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Traditionalists scoff at them. But these outsiders are revolutionizing one of the world’s oldest professions

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Wary of past errors, Western central banks may well opt for shock therapy – interest rate increases – in an effort to prevent prolonged stagflation, the toxic mix of inflation and economic stagnation that …

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Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs.

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Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. said it has signed an agreement to buy Plazes, a privately-held social networking company headquartered in Zurich.

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An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe’s last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population – rather …

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Industrial pipe systems are inaccessible and narrow. The pipes can be vertical and have junctions. Just as challenging, leakage points in the water system must be located, the condition of oil and gas pipelines …

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Toward a free market of ideas. A few months ago in New Scientist, Annalee Newitz took the pessimistic view of the next cyber-movement in the making:”If web 2.0 is about generating your own content …

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Shanghai’s Dongtan Eco-city has a lofty ambition: To become the world’s first carbon-neutral city, just as recent estimates suggest that China has overtaken the United States as the largest emitter of globe-warming carbon …

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Mobile phones could be a godsend to the airline industry — saving time and therefore money

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On the eastern tip of Chongming, the world’s largest alluvial island in the mouth of the Yangtze River, birdwatchers wait patiently to glimpse an occasional crane or plover rising from the wetlands’ reeds.

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The world may be on the verge of a second Green Revolution, says an Ohio State University soil scientist.

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Renewed focus on nationalism worldwide, coupled with lackluster defense of capitalism, has left free markets vulnerable.

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Thousands of wind turbines would be built in some of Britain’s best loved countryside under Government plans to be unveiled this week.

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Bizarre microbes flourish in the most punishing environments on Earth from the bone-dry Atacama Desert in Chile to the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park to the sunless sea bottom vents in the …

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The number of girls to boys in India has hit a record low, British charity ActionAid said Saturday as it urged the government in New Delhi to take "sustained action" to prevent a lost …

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Why Jim Rogers says going green can save the energy business.

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The FCC wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service.

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According to China’s long-term railway plan, fast trains will be expanded to more areas and expected to hit 350kph on most lines by 2020.

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Food prices have been rocketing over the past year, with the average basket of groceries now costing families almost 10 per cent more than it did last summer. According to the Office of National …

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The future of high-intensity X-ray science has never been brighter now that scientists have devised a new type of next generation light sources. The oscillator is projected to increase the current brightness by millions …

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The airport in Kelowna, B.C., will be the first in Canada to test a new type of passenger scanner that creates a virtual, 3-D nude image of people.

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Nearly a century after the discovery of strange star-shaped cells in the brain, scientists say they have finally begun to unravel their function.

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When Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, he uttered unforgettable words. But the next visitor to roam the lunar landscape may send back e-mail instead.

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Toys are no longer just child’s play in Japan, where an ageing population and expanding waistlines have spawned a wave of gadgets to help adults beat stress, battle the bulge or relieve loneliness.

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How a computer forecast pupils’ career paths.

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Professor Khosrow Farahbakhsh’s research on rainwater harvesting received global coverage after being broadcast on CNN Wednesday. The work of the environmental engineering professor caught the eye of a CNN producer, following a segment on …

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While an energy crisis is looming large on one side, a new study cautions that India’s water demand will outstrip supply a few decades from now – if not sooner.

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New computing technologies and the evolution of a "virtual man" to predict the effects of new drugs before they enter clinical trials could transform the fortunes of pharmaceutical research, a report said.

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Telecommunications and computers can be used to help cut carbon-dioxide emissions and save more than $1 trillion worldwide by reducing electricity and fuel use, the Climate Group said.

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The rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given Duke University engineers the ability to create something they call "virtual sticky notes," site-specific messages that people can leave for …

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In a cramped, humid laboratory in London, mosquitoes swarming in stacked, net-covered cages are being scrutinized for keys to controlling malaria.

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RFID technology may provide the key to better traffic management and improved pollution control in Canada, India and worldwide.

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Soaring airfares and concerns about emission levels are prompting companies worldwide to replace physical trips of their executives with high-end videoconferencing.

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Microbes may be smarter than we think. A new study by Princeton University researchers shows for the first time that bacteria don’t just react to changes in their surroundings — they anticipate and prepare …

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Google Inc.’s YouTube is setting up a virtual screening room to bring the work of independent filmmakers to a global audience.

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Could injecting a gene into a patient with severe heart failure reverse their disabling and life-threatening condition? Physician-scientists are setting out to answer that question in a first-ever clinical trial of gene therapy to …

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Switzerland is Europe’s most innovative country, but its edge may be aging.

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After a cold winter, Arctic sea ice has melted quickly, suggesting that summers could be ice-free within five to 10 years.

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Male adoptees are using DNA tests to predict the surnames carried by their biological fathers, the BBC has learned.

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As the United States moves toward taking action on global warming, practical experience with carbon markets in the European Union raises a critical question: Will such systems ever work?

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The credit crunch will drive a wave of outsourcing and offshoring in financial services as cash becomes tighter and banks look to cut costs, …

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Freescale Seminconductor chief technology officer (CTO) says the "Jetsons’ lifestyle" is closer than you may think, and embedded processors with on-chip sensors will propel the innovations.

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A Norwegian company takes an innovative approach to squeezing power out of salty and fresh water.

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The agreement clears the way for joint development of two gas fields in disputed waters of the East China Sea.

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$100 Million Supercomputer will aid breakthrough in disease discovery in Australia and beyond.

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Norman Uphoff of Cornell University is leading an inconspicuous revolt centered on solving the global food crisis, championing a trend that established rice scientists view with skepticism.

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Beijing plans to send food safety and product quality experts to the United States to inspect goods made there in response to Washington’s plans to do the same in China, state media reported.

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Many Americans will forgo vacations and dine in more often to combat soaring fuel prices, while 1 in 10 are rethinking where they live or work, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll.

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Four of Japan’s leading robot startups joined forces, brought together by a common concern that neighboring South Korea could pull ahead in the race to transform robots from science fiction fantasy to commercial success.

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Flexible bot-probes to penetrate tight backdoors Famous robotics company iRobot – maker of the noted Roomba autonomous floor-cleaner and supplier of war-bots to the US military – has announced a radical new development contract. …

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Parts of Australia’s key Murray-Darling river food bowl may be beyond recovery unless a prolonged dry spell and political wrangling over water use ends by October.

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Andrew Charlesworth, vnunet.com , Tuesday 17 June 2008 at 15:49:00 Volumes will be measured in exabytes by 2012, says Cisco Web traffic volumes will almost double every two years from 2007 to 2012, driven …

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Multinationals concerned about Chinese inflation, rising labor costs, shortages of workers and energy, a strengthening currency, dwindling tax breaks and the possibility of civil unrest are establishing or expanding bases elsewhere on the continent, …

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Victorian trials of wheat genetically modified for drought tolerance have shown promising results, scientists say, with some producing yields 20% higher than non-GM varieties

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Some Chinese companies are scuttling to develop overseas uranium supplies as a result of the country’s ambitious nuclear power development plan.

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The predicted rise in dementia over the next two decades could spell the end of the NHS, leading scientists say.

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Computer-generated stand-ins of Nortel workers gather in a virtual hall for a meeting. Social networking is expected to make Web collaboration more ‘immersive and intimate.’ IBM Corp. marketing manager Shari Chiara gets updates on …

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Centuries of knowledge needed to survive in the world’s drylands are being sacrificed in the name of progress.

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A coalition of Silicon Valley investors is funding a company that modifies bacteria to produce oil.

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The brains of gay men resemble those of straight women, according to research being published today that provides more evidence of the role of biology in sexual orientation. Using brain scanning equipment, researchers said …

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If some experts have their way, your next hotel stay could have you seeing green. There’s a conference going on about the future design of hotel rooms.

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Robotic surgery, no longer something out of a sci-fi novel, has become an increasingly popular way to do minimally invasive operations.

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Gov. Martin O’Malley unveiled a proposal to invest $1.1 billion over the next decade to cement Maryland’s status as a pre-eminent hub for biotechnology research, including stem-cell studies aimed at finding breakthrough medical advances.

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Americans once scolded the Chinese on mismanaging their economy. But in recent weeks, the fingers have been wagging in the other direction.

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Engineers who run data centers are in high demand as the growth in such facilities struggles to keep up with the increasing demands of Internet-era computing.

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With China developing anti-satellite missiles, lasers and other offensive space capabilities, India has no option but to be fully prepared for "star wars" in the future.

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Is the white stuff in the Martian soil ice or salt? That’s the question bedeviling scientists in the three weeks since the Phoenix lander began digging into Mars’ north pole region to study whether …

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Chip maker Intel Corp. said Monday it is spinning off assets to create a company, to be known as SpectraWatt Inc., that will make solar cells.

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A new high-tech program for multi-user bicycles could be offered as a solution to high gas prices and environmental issues.

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Physicists have developed a model to explain the mechanism behind computing’s elusive Holy Grail, the single molecular switch. If born out experimentally, his work could help explode Moore’s Law and could revolutionize computing technology.

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Researchers said they discovered a batch of three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.

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Australian scientists have discovered that stem cells found in the back of a patient’s nose can produce the chemical which is missing in people with Parkinson’s disease.

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Throughout our history, new technological developments are constantly making existing products and services obsolete. The laundry list is endless, but here’s just a few:

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Aging populations, rising healthcare costs, promising remote and emerging markets and the advent of personally mediated healthcare as an extension of consumer spending, are tempting technology companies, including electronics and semiconductor companies, to jump …

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Deutsche Lufthansa AG , Europe’s second-biggest airline, said it plans to mix biofuels with conventional jet kerosene as part of an environmental strategy.

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It seems like an idea any environmentalist would embrace: Build one of the world’s largest solar power operations in the Southern California desert and surround it with plants that run on wind and underground …

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The United States hopes the world’s major economies will agree to remove trade barriers on clean energy technologies when they meet alongside the Group of Eight rich nations next month, a senior official said.

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Bolstering the performance of the U.S. health care system is one of the biggest challenges facing the country, the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said.

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Japanese car maker Honda begins the first commercial production of a hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle.

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Drink coffee to send a wake-up call to the brain? Or just smell its rich, warm aroma? An international group of scientists is reporting some of the first evidence that simply inhaling coffee aroma …

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An international smuggling ring may have secretly shared blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon with Iran, North Korea and other countries, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

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Inspired by a chance discovery during another experiment, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have created a small molecule that stimulates nerve stem cells to begin maturing into nerve cells in culture.

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Doomsday grammarians are not in the mood to LOL. They worry that a language apocalypse is approaching, triggered by a new wave of technological pidgin.

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As risk appetite for equities and property wanes, investors are willing to endure negative real returns for bonds from China, Singapore and Hong Kong because their economies are seen as being better equipped to …

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Join the experts! Soon you, your family, friends – and even that nut case down the street – can publish in the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica.

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They view themselves as change agents and strive to harness technology for transformational purposes.

Reinventing the Sacred proposes a new understanding of a natural divinity based on an emerging, scientifically based world view. Complexity theorist Stuart Kaufmann does not propose somehow to insert “god” into a cold, lifeless universe. …

In Spiritual Evolution, Dr. Vaillant lays out a brilliant defense not of organized religion but of man’s inherent spirituality. Our spirituality, he shows, resides in our uniquely human brain design and in our innate capacity …

To stay on top, you need to do more than just tread water — you need to grow. And that means that you need progressively to develop and improve your skills. As a manager, you …

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The world food crisis is prompting a rethink about the way New Zealand land is managed and its use prioritised.

“This is a book about science, technology, and love,” writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can start with a love for an object — a microscope, a modem, a …

In this nuts-and-bolts guide, over 750 professionals speak candidly about “the good, the bad, and the ugly” of two dozen popular professions. Dispensing with romantic fantasies, real-world professionals — from nurses and pharmacists to architects …

Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic needs is failing. In this carefully …

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The increasing emissions from China – up 8 percent in the past year – accounted for two-thirds of the growth in global greenhouse gas emissions in 2007, a study by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment …

When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic literature …

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Europe could face an increase in outbreaks of diseases carried by insects and rodents as the climate on the continent becomes hotter and wetter, EU health experts said.

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A part of the brain that can stay active in brain-damaged patients offers recovery clue, say scientists.

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Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have discovered how evolution may have lumbered humans with allergy problems. The team from the Randall Division of Cell & Molecular Biophysics, King’s College …

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Researchers in Spain have proven that metamaterials, materials defined by their unusual man-made cellular structure, can be designed to produce an acoustic cloak – a cloak that can make objects impervious to sound waves, …

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A new national study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health Project on the Public and Biological Security finds that, in spite of a number of food safety incidents in recent years, most …

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A cadre of young Republicans are pressing their party to embrace the Web-fueled cultural shift that has transformed the way campaigns communicate with youthful voters.

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Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland have produced …

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New evidence shows that the brains of adults with autism are "wired" differently from people without the disorder, and this abnormal pattern of connectivity may be responsible for the social impairments that are characteristic …

A £1.25m grant will be spent trying to make Stirling the first carbon neutral city in the UK.
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The Twelfth African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN) ended five days of deliberations today with governments and civil society agreed — separately — on the importance of developing a common position for Africa at next …

In a quest to make computing more interactive, Intel on Wednesday said it is working on video search technology that it hopes to bring to its future multimedia platforms.
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Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that the Internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising service DoubleClick will aid newspapers as they struggle to corral more online revenue.
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Microsoft’s touch-screen Surface computers have debuted in a Las Vegas casino bar giving Sin City partiers high-tech tools for flirting and concocting cocktails.
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Pesticides designed to protect honeybees are losing their effectiveness, say agricultural researchers, leading to a second year in a row of heavy colony losses across Canada.
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One considered serving drinks from two-liter plastic bottles rather than individual cans – but decided customers would balk at that idea. Others carry less water for faucets and toilets.
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While the rapid decline in pickup and sport utility sales has been grabbing the headlines, minivan sales have also tumbled, falling 20 percent in the first five months of this year.
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The real estate markets around Asia and the world will transform quickly and adopt "green building practices," both in developing new buildings and improving existing ones, as new government policies drive progress towards addressing climate …

Major economies should aim to halve world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and work out ways to bury gases in a wider assault on climate change, the science academies of 13 nations said on …

The world’s most advanced commercially available bionic hand has won the UK’s top engineering award.
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The idea of using switchgrass as a renewable source of energy could take off, supporters say, if we stopped thinking of it as a liquid-fuel replacement.
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A new company has launched an alpha version of a platform that can show the location-based trends of consumers in real time. New York City-based Sense Networks publicly announced itself as a company Monday — …

Proximity sensing is that creepy technology that allows marketers to tailor the actions of digital billboards and posters as you walk by them. You are most likely to encounter the technology at museums, where a …

A supercomputer built with components designed for the Sony PlayStation 3 sets a new computing milestone.
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Nationwide, Americans now spend about 4 percent of their take-home income on gasoline. By contrast, in some counties in the Mississippi Delta, that figure has surpassed 13 percent.
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There is a chance that the outpouring of civic spirit in response to the disaster may not only reshape Chinese politics but also strengthen its economic foundations.
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Maternal diet influences the chances of having male or female offspring. Research published today in BioMed Central’s open access journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology has demonstrated that ewes fed a diet enriched with polyunsaturated fats …

With traffic surging and networks spending billions to keep up, gaining unlimited access to the Internet for video and other services may come at a cost. But for whom.
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Regardless of the conflict over BP’s partnership with ambitious Russian billionaires, big Western businesses are coming to Russia for large contracts and access to its resources.
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Robert Zeigler contends that a sequel to the green revolution of the 1960s is now urgently needed and is convinced it is possible through research, technology and effective communication with farmers.
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One of the great scientific challenges is to understand the design principles and origins of the human brain. New research has shed light on the evolutionary origins of the brain and how it evolved into …

A new headset system picks up electrical activity from the brain and face to control the action in a video game.
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Sprouting up almost overnight, megacities like Shenzhen and Dubai have become vast fields of urban experimentation.
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The International Energy Agency outlined measures to reach the goal of halving emissions by mid-century.
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Oil futures surged more than $10 a barrel, or almost 8 percent, to $138, fueling suspicions that commodities might be caught in a speculative bubble.
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What looks like a fertilized egg, flows like water, gets stuffed with catalysts and exotic nanostructures and may have the potential of making the current retail gasoline infrastructure compatible with hydrogen-based vehicles of the future …

Schoolkids know that over 70 percent of Earth’s surface is washed in water. Yet very little of that abundance — less than two percent — is available for drinking and agriculture. Over the last 50 …

Solar power from Africa’s deserts could supply all 600 million citizens currently without electricity and even export power to Europe, a green energy conference in Nairobi heard.
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This is the first time an official Chinese government agency has echoed this forecast publicly.
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Some private investors are starting to make long-term bets that the world’s need for food will greatly increase — by buying farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators and shipping equipment.
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Because a computer microprocessor is veined with electric circuitry, it might seem like a bad place to put water.
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Evidence of serious flaws in the multi-billion dollar global carbon credit market is uncovered by the BBC.
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An injection of stem cells has been used to cure mice with a normally fatal nervous system condition.
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United’s move comes on the heels of similar cuts at a series of other airlines, which are struggling to combat an 82.5 percent increase in jet fuel compared with last year.
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Monsanto said it would develop seeds that would double the yields of corn, soybeans and cotton by 2030 and would require 30 percent less water, land and energy to grow.
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The mobile phone, often marketed as an essential tool for people on the go, now offers a new possibility for scientists: keeping track of where people are going.
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Sun exposure and vitamin D levels may play a strong role in risk of type 1 diabetes in children, according to new findings by researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San …

It’s hard to say what the most intriguing thing about XP Vehicles’ inflatable car is. Maybe it’s that the car can travel for up to 2,500 miles on a single electric charge (the distance across …

Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of France’s Renault and Nissan of Japan, said on Friday the number of cars in use in the world could more than quadruple by 2050 and these would need to have …

The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and cyanobacteria, to fungi to microalgae, are biological factories that are …

Amidst chatter of baby boomers delaying retirement is talk of a different nature. Not about when boomers are retiring, but how certain industries and the rest of the work force will be affected when they …

Wireless social networking stands to revolutionize the global technology business, representing a vast opportunity that will reshape the global display and semiconductor industries, according to iSuppli.
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Nineteen years after a brutal crackdown against student protesters at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, China’s youth are more focused on iPods, designer jeans and buying their first car than political reform.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a statewide drought after two years of below-average rainfall, low snowmelt runoff and a court-ordered restriction on water transfers.
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A robotics professor has warned that a new breed of childcare robots being developed in Japan and tested in American schools could lead to a "generation of social misfits".
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Ray Kurzweil is a futurist with a track record who makes his predictions using what he calls the Law of Accelerating Returns.
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China is likely to beat the U.S. in this event: landing the next humans on the moon. Chinese astronauts are on schedule to get to the moon two or three years before America returns, the …

Leaders gathered at a summit on the world’s food crisis quickly laid out their disagreements on a key issue: how much the rush for environmentally friendly biofuels is contributing to soaring prices that are causing …

John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by PCs so …

The UN secretary general calls for revitalising agriculture as a way of tackling the world’s worsening food crisis.
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Why the loss of biodiversity and abandonment of ecology-friendly farming undermine attempts to feed the world.
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Ray Kurzweil is a futurist with a track record who makes his predictions using what he calls the Law of Accelerating Returns.
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After studying chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania’s Mahale Mountains National Park for the past year as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, Virginia Tech researcher Dr. Taranjit Kaur and her team have …

A team of scientists from Boston College and Duke University has developed a highly-engineered metamaterial capable of absorbing all of the light that strikes it – to a scientific standard of perfection – they report …

Global climate change will not only impact plants and animals but will also affect bacteria, fungi and other microbial populations that perform a myriad of functions important to life on earth. It is not entirely …

A genetic tool used by medical researchers may also be used in a novel approach to remove harmful microbes and viruses from drinking water.
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You’re used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance? Time Warner Cable customers – …

The impression of China is of thousands of super-efficient electronics companies cranking out components and products with cheap labor. But there’s some really interesting business model innovation going on within the Chinese supply chain mega-machine.
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The International Air Transport Association on Monday called on governments to take measures that would enable the industry to cope with soaring oil prices.
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The state run group will invite foreign companies to develop domestic mines and is interested in assets in Canada, Africa and Australia to meet the energy needs of the country, the company’s chairman said Monday.
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Some of the biggest U.S. banks have closed their doors to students at community colleges, for-profit universities and other less competitive institutions, even as they continue to extend loans backed by the U.S. government to …

Microscopic robots crafted to maneuver separately without any obvious guidance are now assembling into self-organized structures after years of continuing research led by a Duke University computer scientist.
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As the United States continues to import increasingly more of its food from developing nations, we are putting ourselves at greater risk of foodborne disease because many of these countries do not have the same …

Weizmann Institute physicists have demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of ‘quasiparticles’ with one quarter the charge of an electron. This finding could be a first step toward creating exotic types of quantum computers …

The shape of things to come in the computer world will be anything but flat, predicts Queen’s University Computing professor Roel Vertegaal, who is now developing prototypes of these new "non-planar" devices in his Human …

For centuries, the concept of mind readers was strictly the domain of folklore and science fiction. But according to new research published today in the journal Science, scientists are closer to knowing how specific thoughts …

Move over, Rumplestiltskin. Researchers in China report the first successful ?electrospinning? of a type of plastic widely used in automobiles and electronics. The high-tech process, which uses an electric charge to turn polymers into thin …

As the cost of sequencing a single human genome drops rapidly, with one company predicting a price of $100 per person in five years, soon the only reason not to look at your "personal genome" …

Amazon.com and other online merchants began collecting sales tax on purchases by people in New York State last Sunday. Overstock.com, which is not collecting the tax, filed a lawsuit to challenge the policy.
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Imagine direct communication links between the human brain and machines, or tailored materials capable of adapting by themselves to changing environmental conditions, or computer chips and environmental sensors embedded into everyday clothing, or medical technologies …

The Craftsman names a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well for its own sake. Although the word may suggest a way of life that waned with the advent of industrial society, …

When thinking of their relationship with you, do your customers think “We,” or “Us & Them?” So starts Steve Yastrow’s new book, We: The Ideal Customer Relationship. With a fresh, provocative look at how to …

The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is “there”; …

Much of the world’s internet management and governance takes place in a corridor extending west from Washington, DC, through northern Virginia toward Washington Dulles International Airport. Much of the United States’ military planning and analysis …

While the price tag for the deal is not huge in merger terms, it might be a sign of things to come from India and other emerging markets.
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From the outside, it looks like any other vehicle parked in the lot next to the AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble accessing in-depth stories, according to a study to be unveiled at a global media conference.
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The difficult bottom line in the negotiations is that dealing with climate change will almost certainly hurt some industries and enrich others.
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Under new regulations, plastic bags under 0.025 millimeters thick are banned, and shopkeepers must charge shoppers for any other plastic bags.
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The report in the journal Nature is the most striking demonstration of brain-machine interface technology.
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G.ho.st, with offices in the West Bank and Israel, is the first joint technology venture of its kind between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Gartner , an IT industry analyst firm, has published a report on what its analysts see as the top ten disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012.
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Oil recently hit $100 a barrel. And it is still climbing. Unlike the oil shocks of the 1970s, this dizzying leap is not the product of an OPEC embargo or a sudden flare-up in the …

With the pace of competition, innovation, and change in today’s world, creativity isn’t a luxury — it’s a survival skill. But even the most creative people can end up stuck, stale, and stressed out, worn …

A good way to keep Grandma and Grandpa mentally sharp is to get them playing video games. That’s the theory of researchers at the University of Florida. After a promising pilot with older women using …

Clusters of TV and computer screens beam chatty videos about cooking, travel and wellness books.
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The scientist who coined the term "global warming" calls for millions of artificial trees to pull CO2 from the air.
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It’s not just concern for the squeamish biology students who wince at the feel and smell of cutting into a formaldehyde-soaked animal.
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It is the railroads’ core business carrying raw materials that has sustained them, and their stock prices, through the softening economy and soaring fuel prices.
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With the dramatic rise in gasoline prices, U.S. lawmakers are almost frantic in their attempts to close energy-trading "loopholes" that they believe speculators have been exploiting the past few years.
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