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Zeng Yawen’s outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential – rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in …

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Bay Area futurists and their fans gathered Sunday in a coming-of-age celebration for the fledgling field of synthetic biology, which builds living entities from lifeless chemicals.

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Members of the oil cartel left an informal meeting in Cairo this weekend without a deal to cut production, but with rising doubts about fraying discipline and tensions.

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Two of Barack Obama’s favorite proposals are to double funding for basic research and to train more scientists and engineers. One expert argues that more emphasis should go toward revitalizing America’s capacity for innovation.

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Amar Bhidé, a professor at the Columbia Business School in New York says “midlevel innovation” is often overlooked in arguments on technology and research.

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An emerging field called collective intelligence could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of.

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Any government help will probably come too late for thousands of dealers whose sales are evaporating along with consumer confidence and credit.

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The destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has accelerated for the first time in four years, officials say.

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Britain’s plan to borrow in order to spend its way out of an economic crisis could drive the pound lower.

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Fancy having a shopping cart that guides you to the best deals products in the store or gives you health and cooking tips! Well, a Singapore-based company has come out with a novel idea …

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The new-media revolution is now decidedly mainstream and that’s not such a bad thing

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Nissan Motor and Renault are cooperating with Portugal in gauging the viability of electric cars.

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Is there a case for continuing farm subsidies?

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A Government advisory body says major changes must be made to technology and policy to meet the UK’s emissions goals.

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A sinkhole on the shores of the Dead Sea, which is retreating leaving massive sinkholes in its wake. Jordan is hoping to haul water from the Red Sea to replenish the Dead Sea via …

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Britain needs to reinvigorate its mortgage markets to save its economy and its banks. The problem is, few want to borrow and there is precious little money to lend.

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University of Queensland neuroscientists have discovered the crucial role a specific gene plays in forming the neural tube, the earliest identifiable structure in the developing brain and an essential precursor to the entire central …

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A super-efficient system that has the potential to power, heat and cool homes across the UK is being developed at Newcastle University.

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A less than two degree Celsius rise in global temperatures might be sufficient to spark a meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice, the WWF warned in a new study released …

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Consumers should not expect lower food prices anytime soon because the prices on most meat and packaged items are holding firm or even increasing.

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For law enforcement agencies, Web 2.0 poses challenges but also serve up opportunities in surveillance and intelligence gathering.

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The plunge in prices of commodities will add to deflation fears, but not for long, because many are expected to hit a floor soon.

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Russia and Brazil agreed Wednesday to meet with India and China next year to create a new global financial architecture

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Internet bank ING Direct has launched a Web 2.0-enabled ‘We the Savers’ microsite as part of a new media campaign encouraging US consumers to save …

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As technology continues to shrink, and as memory needs become more demanding, the industry dealing with microelectronics requires devices that are cost-efficient and lightweight. And, while organic materials have shown some promise, they still …

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Four of the UK’s leading supermarkets say they are on track to halve the numbers of plastic bags handed out.

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Cyber security’s looming problem: telling humans and computers apart.

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The global downturn is reaching deep into the heart of the country’s once-rapid industrial transformation.

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An opinion survey carried out in 11 countries finds consensus on the need for action on climate change.

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Atop one of the last open bluffs in La Jolla, on the campus of UCSD, a tattered homemade swing hangs from a giant old eucalyptus tree. Swept by Pacific breezes, the land commands a …

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The chief executive of Airbus, Thomas Enders, also said that the European maker of airplanes stood ready to help more airlines finance their purchases as credit dried up.

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The U.S. government announced $800 billion worth of new loans and debt purchases on Tuesday, hoping to smooth troubled credit markets and make borrowing easier.

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A new study shows for the very first time that the degradation by PCSK9 of the LDLR receptor, which is responsible for removing the bad cholesterol from the bloodstream, may be inhibited by a …

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Man-made pollution is raising ocean acidity at least ten times faster than previously thought, a study says.

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Many advanced economies are in or nearing economic downturns of a magnitude not experienced since the early 1980s, the organization said in its twice-yearly Economic Outlook.

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Sandcastle worms live in intertidal surf, building sturdy tube-shaped homes from bits of sand and shell and their own natural glue. University of Utah bioengineers have made a synthetic version of this seaworthy superglue, …

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From Italy to China, a poor global economy and plunging prices of coal and oil are upending plans to wean businesses and consumers from fossil fuel.

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Government figures show the costs of the Climate Change Bill could far outweigh the benefits, a senior MP argues.

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For the first time, scientists have been able to map the disruption in neural circuitry of people suffering from congenital prosopagnosia, sometimes known as face blindness, and have been able to offer a biological …

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Robot workers could ‘disrupt unskilled labor markets,’ report says. A U.S. government intelligence agency thinks robots may be so capable by 2025 that questions such as "Would you like fries with that?" may be …

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School endowments had aggressively embraced private equity, real estate partnerships, etc., but now they are balking as the value of some of these investments has fallen.

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You are only as old as you feel it is said. But soon scientists will be able to calculate your real "biological age".

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Agents along the Canada and Mexico borders are using a controversial new machine that can "read" the personal information contained in some government-issued ID cards

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Web analysis firm repeats warning. Nemertes Research has once again warned that demand for Internet bandwidth will exceed capacity by 2012.

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With e-book sales exploding in an otherwise sleepy market, Random House Inc. announced that it was making thousands of additional books available in digital form, including novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, as …

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Detroit’s largest automakers owe more than $100 billion, and Wall Street is starting to wonder how much of that will be paid back.

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In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom. Right or wrong, that was when blame firmly settled on biofuels …

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A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its …

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One Sunday lunchtime in March, Anthony Hollander, professor of tissue engineering at Bristol University, received a call from his colleague Martin Birchall, a professor of surgery. He had an unusual assignment: they were being …

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A dying industry in the United States found life after bankruptcy when an investor bought up the remains of failed steel companies.

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Like hotels built in China by other U.S. chains, Days Inns are almost unrecognizable to those familiar with their American counterparts, as the company adapts to local tastes.

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Projects planned by provincial governments in China will add an additional $1.46 trillion to a Chinese economic stimulus package in an effort to create more jobs and offset slower exports, state television said.

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Bay Area futurists and their fans gathered Sunday in a coming-of-age celebration for the fledgling field of synthetic biology, which builds living entities from lifeless chemicals.

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As the U.S. economic downturn continues, a growing number of American lawyers are looking outside the United States for work, but the demand for their services is becoming tenuous in many places.

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If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons?

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To be called the Eureka, the 246-feet long zeppelin is the pride and joy of a company called Airship Ventures, which will offer the public rides, as well as help NASA do scientific research.

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Want to understand why switching to renewable fuels is going to be so hard? This overview of alternative energy, fossil fuels and the climate challenge puts it all in perspective. Pay special attention to …

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The move drew interest across Europe because regulators in several countries are scrutinizing public broadcasters’ digital plans.

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Any World Trade Organization complaints may bring to a head a long-simmering dispute over policies that General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler say unfairly help their rivals.

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Air China Ltd. , the nation’s largest international carrier , said losses on hedging contracts tripled because of wrong-way bets on fuel prices.

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A collaboration in the US is aiming to create artificial brain circuits that mimic the structure and workings of neurons.

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A new Global Trends report by the National Intelligence Council (NIC), Washington’s main intelligence body, paints a bleak picture of the EU in 2025 with internal bickering, economic pressure and crime hobbling the bloc.

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oys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect.

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The appeals court’s decision came after finding that the Interior Department had failed to conduct an environmental study before issuing the company’s drilling permit.

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The Bay Area’s big city mayors, including San Jose’s Chuck Reed, have endorsed a plan by a Palo Alto start-up to create a $1 billion infrastructure by 2012 for electric cars in the region.

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The price paid for crops is dropping much faster than the cost of growing them.

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The greatest banking turmoil is setting in around Citigroup, which has lost half its value in just four days, sending shock waves through the financial world.

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Globalization is fast becoming a bad word for politicians in America. This attitude, combined with current economic uncertainties, is causing a political shift from consensus in favor of free trade, to consensus against it.

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Bill Raney considers coal golden. After all, the black rock fuels half of the nation’s electrical generation.

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The global economy is so connected, and our experience with similar situations so limited, that any policy response has to be the right mix and it has to be reasonably well coordinated internationally.

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Peru and China signed a free-trade agreement between the nations, increasing ties between two of the fastest growing economies in Asia and Latin America.

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If Google delivers useless search results, just erase them and you won’t see them again.

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More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought "magical" a reality: capturing and recreating the movement and dynamism of the world around us. …

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Those who drink the Web 2.0 Kool-aid live in a idealistic world where we can mentally connect a great idea to a great implementation of that idea. We live on faith that the great …

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The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes and simulating the atomic structure of materials.

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Global shipping is facing its worst crisis in decades and for Greece, which owns a fifth of the world’s fleet, that spells trouble.

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The Department of Agriculture is forecasting that food prices will jump by 4 percent or 5 percent in 2009, compared to 5.5 percent this year. Some economist predict much steeper increases.

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A US-Russian team announces that it has sequenced most of the genome of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia.

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Analysts expect more measures could come in 2009, but the delay could mean no economic growth next year.

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The financial crisis has made conspicuous consumption gauche. For luxury brands’ products, that means discretion in lieu of drawing attention.

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The Federal Reserve’s efforts to rescue the United States from financial collapse risks the eclipse of the federal funds rate, its benchmark interest rate, as the most important signal of monetary policy.

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The loss of green spaces in Britain has caused the number of house sparrows to drop sharply in the past 30 years.

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In space, no one can hear you scream. But scoring an Internet hookup suddenly isn’t out of the question.

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China in September became the largest foreign holder of US treasuries ahead of Japan, the US Treasury Department reported.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened an office Wednesday in China’s capital — its first outside the United States — as part of a new global strategy to ensure the safety of trillions …

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A patent represents a grant from the United States government to an individual for the exclusive right to make, use, import, sell, and offer to sell an invention. In order to obtain a patent, …

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Scientists in Leeds have devised a new way to create the next generation of man-made molecules in a breakthrough that could revolutionise drug development.

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More U.S. companies that file for bankruptcy protection are shutting down because they cannot obtain enough financing to operate while they reorganize.

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A mother of two has become the first person in the world to undergo a whole organ transplant grown from her own stem cells. The British scientists are hailing a new dawn in transplant …

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The location data of satellite navigation systems looks set to improve traffic monitoring and town planning.

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The Chinese auto industry is quietly pressing Beijing officials for help in coping with a sharp slowing in sales growth this autumn, top Chinese auto executives said in interviews

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Online retailer continues to sell services based on its internal network of servers and data centers. This time it plans to undercut existing content delivery players.

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US President-elect Barack Obama promises to "engage vigorously" on climate change, ahead of a major UN summit.

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Plunging oil prices are reducing a major flow of capital that European banks have used to lend to developing countries.

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The UK’s auction of emissions permits to power firms could raise between 1.5 and 2bn euros over the next 5 years.

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Advance ticket purchases, cheaper hotels and meeting sites, and teleconferencing are some of the tactics being used by corporate travel managers.

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Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel-winning economist, says the crisis was caused by failures of U.S. policy.

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RealAudio / WindowsMedia… Personal jet packs are everywhere in old sci-fi movies. And the world saw a real-life demonstration of the technology in the Opening Ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los …

RealAudio / WindowsMedia… Diane Rehm and her guests discuss China’s economic stimulus plan, whether it can stave off a recession at home, and how it might affect the global economy. [Diane Rehm]

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A widely emerging view is that it will take the combined efforts of China and other emerging nations to lead the global economy out of what is likely to be a long and painful …

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Rick Wagoner cannot afford to leave Washington this week without at least $10 billion in government aid to keep General Motors in business.

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What will be tech-savvy Obama’s priorities?

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Microscopic needles point to new forms of artificial limb

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A judge has tentatively approved a settlement of lawsuits between Google and book authors and publishers that may put millions of out-of-print texts online.

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The American retail industry, including stores like Lowe’s and Target, continue to see signs of a sharp pullback in consumer spending, both online and in stores, adding more worries to Asian exporters supplying the …

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As Detroit auto executives prepared to make a new plea for aid to Congress, General Motors asked for a billion-euro credit guarantee from the German government.

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Britain needs more than one company to build nuclear power stations to meet the government’s long-term carbon emissions targets and provide affordable electricity, UK energy minister Mike O’Brien said.

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Britain is starting to look like Iceland, the island state brought down when foreigners lost trust in the government’s ability to bail out a banking system with huge foreign currency debt at a time …

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Both the beauty and the fragility of the planet were on spectacular display as TODAY reported on climate change live from four very diverse regions around the globe.

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Before getting two artificial disks to ease the grinding pain in his back, Wayne King asked prospective surgeons where they trained and how many disk replacements they had done. Then he flew to Malaysia …

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Rising unemployment and foreclosures are driving more people out of the "prime" credit category and, at the same time, consumer confidence has fallen so far that even wealthier people with little trouble getting credit …

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Maybe you have an 85-year-old grandfather who still whips through the newspaper crossword puzzle every morning or a 94-year-old aunt who never forgets a name or a face. They don’t seem to suffer the …

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It’s evident that Web 2.0 had a great impact on this election. In fact, the information output for this election was unprecedented because of the Internet and Web 2.0 tools.

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Bicyclists in Copenhagen will soon be able to take part in a project that will allow them to track the roads they’ve traveled, get a boost up tough hills, and maybe even improve their …

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Google is beginning to bump up against a web of European laws whose strictures threaten its growth and the image it has sought to cultivate as a company dedicated to doing good.

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American programs to cushion and counter economic downturns have been sharply curtailed since the 1981-82 recession.

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There are many smart ideas floating around about how to solve the twin problems posed by securitizations and resetting mortgages.

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With their credit cards drained, the latest bankruptcy filers are deeper in debt than those in previous downturns.

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An Australian scientist who developed a vaccine for cervical cancer is set to outline a breakthrough which could pave the way for a skin cancer vaccine.

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India rejoiced at joining an elite club by planting its flag on the moon as the country’s space agency released the first pictures of the cratered surface taken by its maiden lunar mission.

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A US funeral business that specializes in launching cremated human remains into Earth’s orbit has begun taking reservations for landing small capsules of ashes on the moon, announced the company’s founder.

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Conference features debate over the promise and peril of the Bay Area’s hot new field of synthetic biology

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With nearly $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, China is one of the few participants with the financial power to aid countries in distress, either directly or by contributing to the International Monetary Fund.

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McDonald’s Corp , the world’s largest fast-food chain, said on Friday it had opened its 1,000th store in China in the southern province of Guangdong, and planned to open another 175 stores in the …

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Organs that aren’t seen by the immune system, and therefore won’t be rejected, could be ready in a decade, thanks to a faster way of genetically engineering pigs

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Global warming will have a broad and devastating impact on California’s economy over the next century, a report says.

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Wal-Mart Stores reported a slightly better-than-expected 10 percent rise in quarterly profit Thursday, as shoppers scoured its aisles for discounts on groceries and medicine in the face of deteriorating economic conditions.

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The big emerging countries that are now the main pillars of world economic growth are looking to push their way into seats next to the rich nations’ club at the G20 summit in Washington.

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Two studies show the first direct images of planets outside our solar system, including a three-planet system.

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It’s not much bigger than a softball and weighs just 2 pounds. But the "pico satellite" being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a …

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It is far harder and more expensive to secure new hedging deals from banks in the wake of the credit crisis, especially after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a big player in the market.

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Second Life creator predicts the next big things in tech

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China’s multibillion-dollar plan to revive sputtering economic growth depends on getting thrifty consumers like Wang, a 22-year-old security guard at a Beijing office building, to get out and spend.

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With a project titled Bactricity, a group of undergraduates became the first Harvard team to win an award at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Championship Jamboree held at MIT last weekend.

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There is a new common symptom of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers, and sore throats. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like "flu symptoms" into Google …

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Virtual worlds provide not only a new universe in which brave explorers stake their claims, but also a new legal landscape in which the colonists are often at odds with the natives from the …

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Oil prices fell to $58.47 a barrel at by early evening, Asia time, their lowest level in 20 months Wednesday, despite efforts by OPEC to stem the slide.

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IBM Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet access delivered over ordinary power lines.

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The cyberpunk science fiction that emerged in the 1980s routinely paraded neural implants for hooking a computing device directly to the brain:

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The deal between Iraq’s state-owned oil company, North Oil, and China’s CNPC is worth $3.5 billion and is the first major deal since the U.S. invasion in 2003.

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A lack of investment in exploration will be likely to force oil prices up and up, a leading energy body warns.

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Congressional leaders said that they were ready to push emergency legislation to aid the auto industry, setting the stage for one last showdown with President George W. Bush.

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Bank executives said Monday that they believed the program would reduce losses at Citigroup by hundreds of millions of dollars, and possibly more.

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Nearly 90 percent of its homeowners owe more on their mortgages than their houses are now worth.

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A new £200m neutron source at Isis, Oxfordshire, will allow scientists to probe matter at the atomic level.

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As the U.S. economy rapidly deteriorates from flourishing to foundering, marketers are scrambling to remake their advertising so products seem affordable and sensible rather than indulgent and fabulous.

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As the U.S. government gears up to invest in new infrastructure, trams are likely to be one of the building blocks for reviving the U.S. economy and improving the nation’s energy efficiency.

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The economic downturn promises to be particularly severe for technology companies, many of which are laden with debt.

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Phase I results of the first clinical trial of gene therapy for patients with advanced heart failure show the approach to be promising, with improvements in several measures of the condition’s severity.

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Scientists engineer beer containing a chemical thought to prevent cancer.

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Companies face massive shocks from information and communication technologies that will radically change existing business models.

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Adding electricity from these sources would impose new demands on a transmission system that was never designed for large power transfers over extremely long distances, an industry report says.

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Global markets continued their retreat from crisis-triggered losses with renewed vigor Monday after China announced a $586 billion stimulus package aimed at countering a slowdown in the Asian powerhouse’s export-led economy.

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For children as young as 7 and adults seeking postgraduate degrees, spending years in the United States or Australia to get an education in English has become a South Korean way of life.

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Scientists engineer cells in the lab to overcome one of HIV’s most effective defence mechanisms.

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Australia’s east coast faces unprecedented erosion within the next decade, heading into a storm period made worse by climate change, new research predicts.

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The loss in Iceland after its economic collapse goes beyond the personal, shattering a proud country’s sense of itself.

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Across the United States, a race is under way among stores and fast-food restaurants to build environmentally friendly outlets, as a way to curry favor with consumers and to reduce operating costs.

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A team of Johns Hopkins biochemists has identified a mixed bag of five key proteins out of thousands secreted into blood draining from the heart’s blood vessels that may together or in certain quantities …

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Get ready for White House 2.0. That’s what many are expecting when President-Elect Barack Obama becomes President Obama in January and puts the power of his unprecedented Internet operation to work in the Oval …

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In a question-and-answer session, Eric Schmidt discussed Google’s plans to maintain its culture and innovative focus.

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Just four months ago, soaring commodity costs were the biggest economic worry as oil raced to a record high. Now the buzz word is deflation, and that is altering both the economic outlook and …

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An engine firing takes India’s Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft into orbit around the Moon.

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Two of today’s greatest innovators in transportation and electricity consumption chat at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit. Find out what, or if, you’ll be driving in 2014.

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China says developed countries must fix their "unsustainable lifestyles", at a major climate conference in Beijing.

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Publishers are moving ahead with a flurry of digital initiatives, tapping the Internet for the marketing, distribution and creation of books.

Chances are you know a person between the ages of 11 and 30. You’ve seen them doing five things at once: texting friends, downloading music, uploading videos, watching a movie on a two-inch screen, and …

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China’s rate of economic growth in China could fall by almost half as the effects of the global economic crisis takes hold, economists say.

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Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection has some environmental advice for the incoming Obama administration: focus on energy efficiency and renewable resources, and create a unified U.S. power grid.

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Humanoid robots have been used to show that that functional hierarchy in the brain is linked to time as well as space. Researchers from RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, have created a new type …

RealAudio / WindowsMedia… It’s the Washington version of a midlife crisis. NASA is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, even as bureaucrats battle over the future of American space exploration. Those battles …

RealAudio / WindowsMedia… Thirty years ago, President Carter dramatically reformed and deregulated the U.S. airline industry. Some see that as an enlightened policy that made air travel affordable. Others say it laid …

RealAudio / WindowsMedia… Some say the efforts to address the economic crisis in the U.S. could lead to long-term and fundamental changes in the American model of capitalism. A look at possible …

RealAudio / WindowsMedia… U.S. auto sales are at a fifteen year low and are expected to decline further in the coming months. Some analysts fear the twenty-five billion loan passed by Congress …

RealAudio / WindowsMedia… A look at what carbon output restrictions could mean for the nation’s coal fired power plants which currently supply half of this country’s electricity. Costs, benefits, and technical feasibility …

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The U.S. stance may disappoint Europeans who are eager to see tighter control over international markets.

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Samuel Palmisano sees the United States at a crossroads similar to the one it faced during the Great Depression, when government-funded New Deal programs helped revive industry.

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China’s unprecedented display of military hardware at the country’s primary airshow was a warning to industry rivals of its global ambitions as a defence manufacturer, analysts said.

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Spotting an opening in the global fight for talent, China’s ambitious financial institutions are planning recruiting trips to London and Wall Street on the wounded financial titans’ home turf.

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In the last few days of the campaign, Republicans attacked Barack Obama in coal-producing states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania by highlighting his warning in January that companies building coal-fired power stations would go …

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Outside observers have long accused the Baltic States of not looking ahead and not preparing well enough for the inevitable economic downturn. One of the main ways to stabilize the economy is to invest …

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Europe drafted the template for bailing out banks, but for the broader economy, what happens in the United States – Europe’s biggest customer – is key.

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Energy and environmental policy is poised for dramatic change under an Obama administration even with a slumping economy.

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Shenzhen and Guangzhou exemplify China’s urban transformation with a combination of economic growth, shifting market conditions and new construction.

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Société Générale is prepared to expand its staff and offer a wide range of financial services in China.

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As growth rate drops below 10 percent, migrant workers in cities face problems finding jobs.

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n a paper published in Genome Research, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) report that what was previously believed to be "junk" DNA is one of the important ingredients distinguishing humans from …

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Humankind will need two planets by 2030 to keep up with its demands for goods and to make space for surging populations. This is according to the influential WWF Living Planet Report 2008, which …

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Rapid urbanisation threatens to trigger a water and sanitation crisis in the world’s overcrowded slums, a report warns.

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Transformation. Paradigms Tossed. Out With the Old. Microsoft’s embrace of "the cloud" is just a sign of the latest upheaval in tech — and it’s right on schedule.

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Acting like a hedge fund, the nation borrowed short-term money, usually from overseas, and made high-risk investments. Now the funding is gone.

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Japanese scientists manage to create clones from the bodies of mice which have been frozen for 16 years.

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Hang on to your magic swords, virtual crime is on the rise.

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At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, surgeon Howard Snyder says he and his colleagues repair the genitalia of roughly 300 baby boys every year – about double what they did when he started his practice …

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The sour economy is bad news for corporate innovation and technology, and it could spell trouble for years to come.

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It’s called "The Internet of Things" — at least for now. It refers to an imminent world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all live and interact with …

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Some luxury retailers at upscale shopping malls are venturing into the world of digital billboard advertising

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The new worry is that the end of inflation may be the beginning of something more malevolent for the global economy.

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The looming global recession will trigger a dramatic shift in the economic balance of power to the emerging world that could see the west lose the dominance it has enjoyed since the dawning of …

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Experts warn that the UK’s binge-drinking culture could result in a time-bomb with people at risk of dementia.

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Two powerhouse emerging market countries felt the sting of the global financial crisis on Saturday as India unexpectedly cut its main short-term lending rate again and China said it was now feeling a slowdown.

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The age of public collaboration over the Internet is still only in its infancy, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told AFP in an interview.

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Leading physicists have told the BBC that long-term research is under threat because of a shortage of funding.

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Amid the global fear, one thing still sets this country apart: The crisis of 2008 is just the latest in a long string of post-Soviet bank failures, financial swindles and economic collapses.

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Steeped in tradition, Europe’s vintners have found themselves hard pressed to compete with the modern processes used to produce New World wines. Now European researchers are offering the continent’s winemaking industry the opportunity to …

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A quiet wind turbine developed in Scotland is now available in the US and Canada. Its developers say that the roof-based turbine can provide significant power for homes and commercial buildings alike.

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They may dwell at the bottom of the food chain, but algae are drawing the attention of top scientists at companies such as Boeing, Chevron and ConocoPhillips.