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As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they’re faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills.

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Opening a car trunk or controlling a home air conditioner could become just a wish away with Honda’s new technology that connects thoughts inside a brain with robotics.

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Malaysian automaker Proton has said it will manufacture electric cars for eco-conscious markets in Europe and the United States, in a deal with Netherlands-based Detroit Electric.

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Aviation groups in Europe announced a plan Tuesday to change the way commercial planes land in order to reduce their global-warming emissions of carbon dioxide.

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Russia is seeking a bigger role on the world economic stage during the financial crisis, submitting proposals to this week’s G20 summit and lending some of its oil wealth to crisis-hit neighbours.

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A cheap five-in-one pill can guard against heart attacks and stroke, research conducted in India suggests.

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Antibiotics used extensively in intensive livestock production may be having an adverse effect on agricultural soil ecosystems. In a presentation to the Society for General Microbiology Dr Heike Schmitt from the University of Utrecht, …

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Google-owned YouTube and Walt Disney Co. are close to finalizing a deal to distribute videos from Disney properties on the video-sharing website, The Wall Street Journal online reported.

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A tiny microbe can take electricity and directly convert carbon dioxide and water to methane, producing a portable energy source with a potentially neutral carbon footprint, according to a team of Penn State engineers.

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Both cancer cells and the chemicals used to make bombs can foil detection because they appear in trace amounts too small for conventional detection techniques. Tel Aviv University has developed the ultimate solution: a …

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As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why–and the reasons are many. Increasingly sedentary environments for both adults and children, …

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People remain cautious about the emergence of new food technologies according to a review of existing research, published by the Food Standards Agency. The report, which looks at research since 1999, brings together knowledge …

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A hungry student at the University of San Francisco earlier this month couldn’t find a few college staples at the campus eatery — a juicy hamburger and a cheesy slice of pizza.

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Thousands of acres of solar panels could spring up across California’s Mojave Desert like a crop of crystal mushrooms — a new kind of gold rush meant to bring powerful environmental benefits.

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Micro-organisms occurring naturally in coastal mudflats have an essential role to play in cleaning up pollution by breaking down petrochemical residues. Research by Dr Efe Aganbi and colleagues from the University of Essex reveals …

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The benefits to animals of omega 3 fatty acids in fish oils have been well documented – helping the heart and circulatory system, improving meat quality and reducing methane emissions.

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A University of Kansas professor is researching details of relationships forged on social networking sites and determining their significance, depth and potential.

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A jeans plant that helped usher in capitalism is expected to shut down in June, another victim of the worldwide economic crisis. Nearly everyone old enough remembers that day when Levi Strauss & Co., …

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Nanotechnology is big business conducted on an atomic scale. China is a major player, using it for a speaker just 1mm thick – or super-strong armour Seated inside one of China’s most advanced science …

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The oil giants could be taken by surprise at how quickly battery-powered cars take over the roads..

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Zapping past any commercial has been easier than ever, thanks to digital video recorders – until now. Under a plan crafted with Wenham’s Mullen agency, search-engine Ask.com has been running commercials that appear not …

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The U.S. plan to deal with toxic assets could, in the best case, make banks a little healthier and a little better able to extend credit.

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Students of popular musical instruments may soon be learning to play with the help of a new generation of intelligent, interactive computer programmes.

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Peter Sands, chief executive of Standard Chartered, credits the bank’s presence and experience in volatile emerging markets for keeping profits flowing in tough times.

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While personal connections still reign as the best way to get your face in front of a prospective employer, internet job sites and social networking for work has shown tremendous growth.

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AT&T Inc., the nation’s largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.

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Japanese consumer price inflation stalled in February, putting the country on the brink of a return to deflation triggered by a slide in oil prices as the government scrambles to pull out of a …

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Australia cited national security as the reason, but the move is likely to stoke concerns about rising protectionism.

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European governments say their job protections and unemployment benefits automatically provide spending that the U.S. Congress has to legislate.

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Fresh off his hit performance with the bank-rescue plan, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner seems to be on a roll. His broad proposal to overhaul regulation of whole swaths of the financial sector drew applause …

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Sharp reductions in investments and low oil prices could curb future supplies, leaving the world to face a new energy shock when the economy picks up, according to a new study.

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US automaker Tesla Motors unveiled its state-of-the-art five-seat sedan, billed as the world’s first mass-produced, highway-capable electric car.

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The New York Times and Washington Post, two of the most prestigious titles in American journalism, plan another round of pay cuts, layoffs and buyouts amid a steep decline in advertising revenue.

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For the first time ever, a Michigan State University researcher has shown cholesterol crystals can disrupt plaque in a patient’s cardiovascular system, causing a heart attack or stroke.

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Spanish and French astrophysicists have identified a band in the infrared range that serves to track the presence of organic material rich in oxygen and nitrogen in the interstellar dust grains. Should any telescope …

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Researchers at a US Navy laboratory have unveiled what they say is "significant" evidence of cold fusion, a potential energy source that has many skeptics in the scientific community.

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The global real estate downturn has prompted builders in Europe and Asia to take another look at "fractional ownership" — the U.S. sales model that initially found few fans outside America.

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Reminiscent of the Great Depression, encampments of homeless people are growing in such cities as Fresno, California.

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Populist rage is sweeping the nation. How will it affect corporate interests in Washington, in the courts, and at cash registers? So far, at least, the damage seems to be limited.

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Sapporo Breweries Ltd. plans to conduct what is said will be the world’s first trial to produce hydrogen gas, or biohydrogen, by using sugar cane and leftover farm produce in Brazil in September. The …

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Obopay is an payment system that works on your cell phone–kind of like a mobile PayPal. The service is cheap, easy to use, and fantastically convenient. Not only that, it’s well-backed; today Nokia [ …

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Tata Motors, the Indian maker of Jaguar and Land Rover luxury vehicles, is expected to be flooded with more orders for the $2,500 Nano than it plans to sell, analysts said.

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It’s not just a dream. Your supermarket really is talking to you. And its says it’s time for vitamins.

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A precise, new nanotechnology treatment for drug addiction may be on the horizon as the result of research conducted at the University at Buffalo.

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In a dramatic rewrite of the recipe for life, scientists from Florida described the design of a new type of DNA with 12 chemical letters instead of the usual four. Presented here at the …

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In a town on India’s western coast, where ships are sent to be dismantled when their owners no longer need them, business is at record levels and workers can hardly keep up with demand.

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A receptor for glutamate, the most prominent neurotransmitter in the brain, plays a key role in the process of "unlearning," report researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their findings, published in the …

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The administration wants to expand its existing powers over banks to include insurance companies and other less-regulated market players.

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Apparel, the country’s top export earner, employed 340,000 people in almost 300 factories, but many of those shops have closed as demand in the West has dried up.

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The idea of curbing climate change by seeding the seas with iron gets a knock-back from the biggest investigation so far.

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In the future, natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Government researchers are …

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In a band 1,000 kilometers above Earth, a growing collection of mechanical debris is accumulating. Old rocket boosters, retired satellites, and even pieces of an intentionally exploded Chinese satellite threaten to destroy millions of …

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A surge in protectionism is provoking nasty trade disputes and undermining efforts to plot a coordinated response to the global economic downturn.

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UK scientists plan trials to see if embryonic stem cells can be used as a viable way of making synthetic blood.

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After being largely ignored for years by Washington, advocates of organic and locally grown food have found a receptive ear in the White House, which has vowed to encourage more nutritious and sustainable food.

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Conventional wisdom holds that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. But now scientists studying networking are starting to realize that when it comes to much in life, it’s also who the …

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The State Council said it would push five steel makers and two or three car companies to take dominant positions in their respective industries.

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Emissions trading scheme at the centre of a high-stakes game between mining and industrial giants, the Government and green groups – with jobs as the trump card.

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For the first time since the dot-com bust, there is a jump in the number of undergraduate computer-science majors. New enrollment in North American computer science and engineering programs rose 8 percent during the …

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Can the key to "clean" energy be found down in the sewer? That’s the idea in Oslo, where city officials soon plan to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste.

Fake Work offers solutions that will change the way you view work, including how to recognize fake work and how to get out of it, how (and what) to communicate with your colleagues to eliminate …

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Honda Motor will offer American consumers what it bills as “the world’s first affordable hybrid.”

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The recession is causing a massive consumer shift in Japan: No longer do its famously finicky and brand-conscious consumers assume imported and no-name electronics are as cheap in quality as they are in price.

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Nearly one third of US bird species are "endangered, threatened or in significant decline", a report shows.

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The depth and speed of the manufacturing plunge are striking, and recall conditions that led to the Great Depression.

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U.S. food groups are looking to emerging markets like China, Russia and Brazil to bolster sales of products like soup, processed meats and coffee while their domestic operations struggle to cope with recession.

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A prototype of what is being touted as the world’s first practical flying car took to the air for the first time this month, a milestone in a project started four years ago by …

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It’s far lighter than a featherweight but packs a powerful punch – relatively speaking. The new artificial muscle invented by U.S. researchers is, at once, light as air, stiffer than steel and more flexible …

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The city of Copenhagen, which will host a UN climate conference in December, aims to become the world’s first carbon neutral capital in 2025, city officials said.

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Super-fast quantum computers are now a step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to a breakthrough by scientists.

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A shoal of robotic fish which can detect pollution in the water are set to released into the sea off Spain, British scientists said.

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Fingerprints and smart cards Air France has started trialling RFID-equipped smartcards which store passenger fingerprints to allow automated boarding..

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Rail service, airports, utilities and the public sector were hit by work stoppages Thursday, the second major strike in two months, as French unions mobilized against government’s response to the global economic crisis.

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Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.’s electronic book-reading device.

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Three new species of bacteria, which are not found on Earth and which are highly resistant to ultra-violet radiation, have been discovered in the upper stratosphere by Indian scientists. One of the new species …

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After years of overexpansion, the New York restaurant scene is seeing a ‘healthy correction,’ according to one chef.

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With banks around the world foundering, the idea of moving your bank account to another planet might have some appeal.

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Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent defense analyst in Moscow, says some Russian military leaders fear the U.S. missile defense system planned for installation in Poland and the Czech Republic is really intended to deploy nuclear-armed …

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The roots of synthetic biology stretch back only eight years, and the discipline is so new that it does not yet have an established definition. On the one hand, it can be considered from …

Traditional business practices were established in an era of industry and manufacturing, when assets were easy to see, touch, and count. But the most important assets in today’s economy are invisible and intangible. They don’t …

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Time Inc. is experimenting with a customized magazine that combines reader-selected sections from eight publications as it tries to mimic in printed form the personalized news feeds that have become popular on the Internet.

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A collapse in global steel prices is leading to consolidation among the country’s fragmented, fast-growing steel mills, with an aim to improve their leverage.

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NASA scientists analyzing the dust of meteorites have discovered new clues to a long-standing mystery about how life works on its most basic, molecular level.

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Worried about filling seats, airlines have hit the panic button. Amazing airfare sales are breaking out all over.

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The Ministry of Commerce will make it much easier for Chinese companies to win approval to invest overseas, in the country’s latest move to encourage its companies to go abroad.

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China says importers of Chinese-made goods should pay for carbon emitted during their manufacture.

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has chronicled the news of the city since logs slid down its steep streets to the harbor and miners caroused in its bars before heading north to Alaska’s gold fields, …

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The U.S. stimulus bill has allocated $3.4 billion for clean coal technologies, and companies are lining up with projects.

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More than 22.3 million Americans access their internet on their mobile devices every day – twice as many as a year ago, says a new report.

In The One-Life Solution, Dr. Henry Cloud, consultant, bestselling author of the Boundaries series and Integrity, and clinical psychologist, examines the workplace. He demonstrates how our failure to maintain a unified life with good boundaries …

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People who have lost brain cells in the hippocampus area of the brain are more likely to develop dementia, according to a study published in the March 17, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the …

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How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype ‘brain on a chip’ is …

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Ontario-based Bruce Power has erected billboards in four Alberta communities positioning itself as a provider of green energy, as it prepares to launch its latest proposal for a nuclear power plant in the northern …

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The device looks deceptively simple – a porous clay pot placed in a five-gallon plastic bucket with a spigot – but Vinka Craver believes it can save millions of lives each year.

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A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.

The Prediction Trap explains why humans base so much of their thinking on a selectively remembered past. It details why and how to most effectively bring others into your thinking – especially people who don’t …

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Super-buoyant metals used to make postage stamp-sized boats could one day be the basis of “aquatic robots.”

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Anticipating watery climate change in the Netherlands.

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Foreign investment in China fell in January and February as overseas firms were hit by the global recession, figures show.

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Australia must urgently address its demand for water if it is to cope with challenges such as increasing water scarcity, a leading scientist says.

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The nation’s food safety system is a "hazard to public health" and overdue for an overhaul, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he filled the top job at the Food and Drug Administration.

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The Maldives, which is threatened by rising sea level as a result of global warming, is planning to become the world’s first carbon-neutral country.

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In the 12 months through February unemployment rates for men rose at a faster rate than those for women, no matter what their education or age.

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President Barack Obama’s economic aide Lawrence Summers assured China that its hundreds of billions of dollars in US bond investments were safe.

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Solar cells adorn the roofs of many homes and warehouses across Germany, while the bright, white blades of windmills are a frequent sight in the skies above Spain.

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Nobody’s written the bill yet, but the idea pushed in a congressional hearing this week was to create a mandatory program that would allow the U.S. Department of Agriculture to track every single head …

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Honda plans to offer the 2010 Insight hybrid for as little as $19,800, thousands below the typical entry point for a hybrid vehicle.

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European researchers working on some of the most fundamental issues facing the future internet paradigm have developed – in their spare time, no less – a mobile platform that brings some of the most …

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International scientists say the worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged just two years ago are already being realised.

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Researchers have devised a coating that uses sunlight to automatically heal scratches.

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It may sound like something out of a science fiction movie – but bad memories can be erased in mice and this finding sheds light into how memories are normally encoded and stored in …

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Responding to rising public anger, state attorneys general have already begun indicting financial officials, and the Obama administration has hinted it may add to the effort.

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The crew of the International Space Station are forced to shelter in the Soyuz capsule after a close call with space debris.

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Scientists say for the first time they have understood someone’s thoughts by looking at what their brain is doing.

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Google Voice has breathed new life into GrandCentral, a service that lets all your phones respond to one number.

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Four in every ten homes will be occupied by someone living alone in England within 20 years according to new figures.

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Aliens may be living among us. Lurking in nuclear waste pools. Breeding in acidic lakes. Or creeping underground devoid of oxygen and light. This may sound like a teaser for a science-fiction movie, but …

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Down-at-heel Xiaojiahe in Beijing’s university district seems an unlikely haven for China’s aspiring elite, but its reeking alleys and dank rooms offer a low-budget bolthole for graduates battling to find work.

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The multibillion-dollar recycling industry has gone into a nose dive, thanks to the global economic crisis and a concomitant fall in commodity prices.

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After a burst of initial action last autumn, experts say policy makers on the Continent are moving too slowly to keep up with the worsening situation.

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Banks are cutting off even modest lines of credit to small businesses, pushing many into failure.

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Increasing levels of acidity in oceans could trigger a mass extinction of sea life, a leading scientist warns.

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Google Inc. will use its surveillance of Web surfing habits to figure out which ads are best suited to each individual’s interests — a practice likely to illuminate just how much the Internet search …

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Artificial life could be created "within five years" researchers from the USA have claimed.

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A simple change to lithium-ion battery manufacturing leads to cheaper, safer, faster-charging batteries.

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Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have conducted the most comprehensive brain mapping to date of the cognitive abilities measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), the most widely used intelligence …

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Research presented at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen shows that the upper range of sea level rise by 2100 could be in the range of about one meter, or possibly …

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Most economists still do not expect China’s economy to suffer a broad decline in prices this year, but statistics provided disturbing whiffs of possible deflation.

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Slumping consumer demand pushed China’s consumer and producer price indices into negative territory in February, state-run media reported.

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For business lobbyists, U.S. regulators are becoming like the zombies in George Romero ‘s horror flick, ” Night of the Living Dead “: relentless, merciless and everywhere.

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Researchers at Princeton University have discovered a way to take unique ‘fingerprints’ of paper using inexpensive scanners.

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Most analysts do not believe prices will continue to fall, but a growing minority says the world recession could push prices still lower.

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Will new information and communications technologies make the world a better place? Many commentators have imagined so. Writing in 1858 about the invention of the new-fangled telegraph, Charles Briggs and Augustus Maverick observed that: …

In Discovery-Driven Growth, authors McGrath and MacMillan show how companies can plan and pursue an aggressive growth agenda with confidence. By carefully framing their strategic growth opportunities, testing each project assumption against a series of …

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The University of Minnesota and Minneapolis plan to unveil an ambitious bicycle-sharing program Tuesday, a program that will put 1,000 bikes on the street.

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U.S. investors and foreign banks looking for havens have been buying U.S. Treasury securities, making the dollar stronger and drawing money away from emerging markets.

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Where next for the great hope of medical science.

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The Internet now connects humanity into a hive mind. Is that a good thing.

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A German discount supermarket known for low-priced groceries and household goods expanded into new territory Monday by selling cars on its Web site.

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China has more than 100 automakers that have hesitated for years on combining. But, with a push from the central government, they have developed a new sense of urgency as China’s once-booming auto market …

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Innovators, start your engines. When the economy finally snaps back, technology is expected be the catalyst that pulls Massachusetts out of its doldrums, just as it has done in the past. It may not …

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Lung disease patients could one day have an alternative to a transplant after scientists develop a ‘portable lung’.

Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you’ve never heard it before. …

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What will become of young Americans shaped by what some are already calling the Great Recession.

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With lending and investment dysfunctional around the world, the tilt of money toward the United States appears to be exacerbating the economic crisis in other countries.

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Play out the consequences of a government takeover of troubled banks, and the strategy loses appeal.

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Physics prodigy turned software entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram can fairly claim to have revolutionized the math software niche with the 1988 launch of Mathematica, and that must have given him a taste for being the …

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How a struggling Boston painter finally found success through his alter ego — a hip, virtual-world art-scene maker.

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The world’s best efforts at combating climate change are likely to offer no more than a 50-50 chance of keeping temperature rises below the threshold of disaster, according to research from the UK Met …

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Handsets, laptops, cars and even clothes: they are all part of the ‘network of things’, an incarnation of the future internet, and European researchers are working hard to create that future now.

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This week’s Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain …

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In a bleaker assessment than those of most private forecasters, the World Bank predicted that the global economy would shrink in 2009 for the first time since World War II.

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A wink, a smile or a raised eyebrow could soon change the music on your iPod or start up the washing machine, thanks to a new Japanese gadget.

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The men who saw themselves at the Carnegies or Rockefellers of Russia may soon be thrown into the dustbin of history by the economic crisis.

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Airline passengers will soon be checking their e-mail at 30,000 feet. United, American, Virgin America, and Delta airlines all are installing Wi-Fi Internet service on their planes, using technology from Chicago-based Aircell LLC. Globe …

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In this Taliban stronghold in the mountains south of Kabul, the U.S. Army is providing the security that will enable China to exploit one of the world’s largest unexploited deposits of copper, earn tens …

Emblematic of modernity, the grid gives form to everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to Mondrian paintings and bits of computer code. And yet, as Hannah Higgins makes clear in this wide-ranging and revelatory book, …

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Italian researchers have developed a wheelchair that obeys mental signals sent to a computer, they said.

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Diesel made from palm oil, vegetable oil and animal fat in Singapore may soon be powering cars in Europe and North America, Finland’s Neste Oil said.

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In a victory for news technology in federal courts, a judge is allowing a reporter to use the microblogging service Twitter to provide constant updates from a racketeering gang trial this week.

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There has long been a sort of parallel industry trying to capitalize on genomic advances — companies that promise to find your perfect mate through DNA matching, and other services of dubious quality.

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Japan’s experience demonstrates how a modern stock market can atrophy, and may offer lessons for other nations.

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Chemists have developed a way to assemble cells into 3-D microtissues and even tiny glands, much like snapping together toy building blocks to make a simple machine. Such microtissues could serve as niches for …

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The coalition parties agreed on broad measures that go further than steps being considered in the United States or Britain.

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Global group says organized effort to implement current technology can improve global fuel efficiency by 50 percent.

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J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998. Scientists, …

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As William Gibson said, "The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed." A few years ago I thought streaming video was an impossible dream. Networks were too slow, we said, and …

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China fleshed out an ambitious expansion in government spending to reverse its economic stall but disappointed world markets with a lack of any new spending announcements.

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A Canadian filmmaker plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society.

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Report finds that business is failing to address impact of water scarcity on its operations, and provides investors with questions pertaining to water risks to ask of their portfolio companies.

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Soon, their own homes could help keep seniors with dementia safe, reminding them with a friendly voice to turn off the tap or to shut off the stove if they forget, says a British …

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Using a common food additive, U of M researchers were able to stop the spread of the virus that causes AIDS in monkeys. They hope it may be a potential weapon in the worldwide …

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From Asia to Europe to Wall Street, indexes bounced back on signs that China will increase its stimulus spending beyond the $585 billion already proposed.

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The first virtual reality headset that can stimulate all five senses will be unveiled at a major science event in London.

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Cacti in Arizona will be injected with radio frequency ID tags to prevent theft.

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A team of scientists at the Scripps Research Institute has found a way to use specially programmed chemicals to elicit an immediate immune response in laboratory animals against two types of cancer.

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Every U.S. state, with the exception of a band stretching from the Dakotas down to Texas, is shedding jobs at a rapid pace.

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Skittish banks are pulling back on financing for international commerce, contributing to the first fall in global trade in decades on top of the drop in demand.

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A closely watched index of manufacturing activity in China rose in February, in an early sign that the economy is at least no longer worsening — though a full recovery remains a long way …

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Hit by the global economic crisis, the world’s poorest countries will need from $25 billion to $140 billion in additional financing this year, the International Monetary Fund said

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Analysts expect overall new vehicle sales to be down about 40 percent on a year-over-year basis.

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Should you keep just five friends and cull the rest?

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The New York Times has launched an experimental network of websites providing local community news and information for residents of neighborhoods in New York and New Jersey.

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Scientists at Bradford University believe they have uncovered the root cause of why hair turns grey.

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Schizophrenia could be caused by faulty signalling in the brain, according to new research published today in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. In the biggest study of its kind, scientists looking in detail at brain …

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Some workers are taking airplane trips with no purpose other than to be on the plane.

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A U.S. fertility clinic is courting controversy that it is wading into the realm of "designer babies" after announcing recently that it can help expectant parents choose the genetic traits of their future children.

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In a key Eastern European nation, banks, factories and services are faltering, and a government default seems possible.

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Foreclosure defendants are finding that banks failed to assign notes to mortgages that were bundled into securities.

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Hungary begged European Union leaders not to let a new "Iron Curtain" divide the Continent into rich and poor, but Germany rejected proposals for a comprehensive bailout of the bloc’s eastern members.

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To Bolivia’s president, it’s the great silvery-white hope. Lithium, the lightest metal. Half the density of water. Used in cell phone, laptop and iPod batteries, and in the years to come, many thousands of …

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The new edition of the Arab Media Outlook, the ground-breaking media analysis recently brought out by Dubai Press Club in conjunction with PricewaterhouseCoopers, has revealed that demographic factors are among the principal reasons why …

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The Obama administration hopes to move computerized medical records toward widespread adoption and commercial success.

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College grads are no longer the majority at job fairs as baby boomers are forced to start from scratch.

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A few managers are switching some employees to 24-hour workweeks.

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In his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, President Barack Obama called for every American to pursue some form of education beyond high school. It’s an ambitious goal — some might …