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A dangerous collection of orbiting space debris is expected to pose an increasing threat to international space travel. "The threat posed by orbital debris to the reliable operation of space systems will continue to …

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Meeting a widely-supported goal to tackle global warming means that humanity will be able to burn less than a quarter of the proven reserves of fossil fuels by 2050, a study said.

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Scientists demonstrate an imaging system that each second can take millions of images just half a trillionth of a second long.

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The University of Maryland Dental School is the first to add "Second Life" lessons for students on a virtual dental school island.

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Mayor Michael Nutter unveiled an ambitious plan to make Philadelphia the country’s No. 1 green city by 2015.

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For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one …

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The federal court overseeing Google Inc.’s settlement over its book-scanning program is giving authors four more months to opt out of the deal and review its potential pitfalls.

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The swine flu virus that is smoldering in this country and triggering a full-blown outbreak in Mexico is one of a growing number of animal pathogens to jump the species barrier — and may …

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Scientists are hailing a major breakthrough in autism research, saying the finding has pinpointed its genetic causes. The breakthrough could be the key to unravelling the condition and therefore identifying possible treatments.

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A new generation of anti-impotency drugs based on nanoparticles might be coming quickly. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York presenting at the 104′th Annual Meeting of the American Urological …

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In car-crazy California, a new fuel standard ordered by state officials to curb greenhouse gases could dramatically change how vehicles run. It also could have a huge effect on cost.

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Numerous studies have shown that depression is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, but exactly how has never been clear.

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Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward constructing a systems …

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The swine flu epidemic crossed new borders Tuesday with the first cases confirmed in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, as world health officials said they suspect American patients may have transmitted the …

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The UK government is funding research into ocean acidification, saying it is one of the century’s "biggest environmental concerns".

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The presidents of five Central Asian republics are due to discuss the contentious issue of regional water supplies.

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Food riots are a real threat in some developing countries unless agricultural research funds are boosted, says a UK scientist.

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Salaries are down by 25%, international offers have dried up, and at some top business schools nearly half the graduates can’t find jobs.

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European researchers genetically modify a white corn to produce three vitamins.

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The US Army said it had launched a fan page on Facebook and established an office for online "social media," despite security rules that limit soldiers’ access to networking sites.

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Researchers from City University London have found that at least 75 percent of revenue can be lost and web traffic can actually fall when a newspaper moves from print and web to web-only.

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Swedish telecom supplier Tele2 said it will delete information allowing their customers to be identified, a move police argue could make the hunt for Internet pirates “impossible.”

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Facebook cleared the way for outside developers to craft software applications that do clever, creative or useful things with data streamed as updates at the social-networking service.

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The latest daily circulation figures for US newspapers provided more bad news on Monday for the embattled industry.

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President Barack Obama has set a goal of devoting 3% of gross domestic product to US science research.

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Ailing from the recession, many U.S. hospitals have had to begin making painful cuts to patient services and laying off staff, as previous cost-cutting hasn’t been enough, an industry survey found.

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As reports of a unique form of swine flu erupt around the world, the inevitable question arises: Is this the big one.

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Move over granite countertops. Solar panels and tankless water heaters are catching on as the hot must-have items in new home construction.

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It is said that each of us marches to the beat of a different drum, but new Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms that must be kept for …

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A growing number of swine flu cases in Mexico and the U.S. has international health officials concerned that the aggressive virus could infect people worldwide.

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Personal music players and mobile phones could soon become theftproof thanks to the unique noises coming from our ears.

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You could call Tim Barnett the Southwest’s water Cassandra gifted with visions of the future, but doomed to be ignored.

Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into “fourth-generation fuels” — biologically …

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To drill or not drill for new oil and gas.

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Mixing the web and the world.

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Steve and Sue Kirkham’s home sits atop a hill where the wind can be strong enough to mute conversations and rattle lawn chairs. Instead of complaining, they decided to harness its power.

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Scientists at the University of Glasgow have unravelled the woolly history of sheep domestication by examining retroviruses preserved in the animal’s DNA.

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Facebook will adopt new rules that give its users more control over the content they post on the social network, after close to three-quarters of users who participated voted for the changes.

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An orchestra that plays music based on measuring brain waves has made its debut.

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After a slow start, mobile Web access has finally taken off, thanks in large part to better technology, and it will drive growth in Internet use in the future, industry leaders say.

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California air regulators adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state’s wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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The President’s European trip provides a case study on his leadership style, which is about inspiration.

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One of the more interesting vehicles unveiled at the the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit is an electric Hummer that gets, according to its developer Raser Technologies, 100 miles per gallon. …

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The full sequence of a cow’s genome has been published, revealing coded secrets that could revolutionise agriculture.

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Google is giving people influence over what information turns up during online searches on their names.

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Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have created lip-reading computers that can distinguish between different languages.

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South Korean scientists said they have cloned a piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants.

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A new study reveals that – contrary to decades of evolutionary thought – chromosome regions that are prone to breakage when new species are formed are a rich source of genetic variation.

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Ministers give the go-ahead for a new generation of coal power plants, if they can show they can reduce emissions.

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Because of growing competition and dwindling TV ad dollars, the big networks will be forced to make major changes, and fast.

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A new Australian study has found that the number of newborns suffering serious drug withdrawal symptoms is now more than 40 times higher than in 1980.

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These days, chemical analysts are expected to track down even single molecules. To do this highly sensitive detective work, nano researchers have developed minute strings that resonate in characteristic fashion. If a molecule docks …

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President Barack Obama, standing Wednesday in the shell of a once-giant Maytag appliance factory that now houses a wind energy company, declared that a "new era of energy exploration in America" would be a …

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As water prices climb globally, companies are developing ways to conserve, clean, and meter consumption. Here are some promising contenders.

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A US-based fertility doctor claimed to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women.

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While the Internet has dramatically changed lives around the world, its full impact will only be realised when far more people and information go on-line, its founders said.

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The Pentagon is planning to create a new military command to focus on cyberspace and protect its computer networks from cyberattacks, U.S. officials said.

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China’s rapidly aging population threatens social, economic stability.

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Water levels in some of the world’s most important rivers have fallen sharply over the past 50 years, US researchers say.

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National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity’s earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World.

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When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective — they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed …

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Google’s introducing some early-stage new products and services coming out of Google Labs.

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It hasn’t happened yet, but research suggests it is possible.

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So-called "silent" heart attacks may be much more common than previously believed, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

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Hurricane Ike rips into southeastern Texas, blowing jagged tree limbs onto power lines all over the Houston metropolitan area. Like firemen responding to an alarm, gumshoe utility workers packing flashlights and rain slickers scour …

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In the next week, legislators are expected to introduce bills in the House and Senate promising to do away with the physical presence requirement. If a bill passes — and that’s a big if …

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The number of people hit by climate-related disasters worldwide could rise 50% within six years, Oxfam says.

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The Colorado River system supplies water to tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland, and has never experienced a delivery shortage. But if human-caused climate change continues to make the …

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Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to make transistors smaller and faster. The technique uses self-assembled, self-aligned, and defect-free nanowire channels made of gallium arsenide.

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In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter — just by thinking about it.

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With smartphones increasing our ability to be really mobile, just how good is the mobile web experience and how will it change the way we absorb information?

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Given the potential inconvenience and ‘Big Brother’ aspect of utilities controlling home appliances, it’s time to convince energy users.

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It looks like Google’s search robot will finally be crawling its way to your TV. According to the chairman of Japan’s Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF), several Android-based set top boxes will be shown …

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Leading automotive and energy companies have reached agreement on a common "plug" to recharge electric cars, a spokeswoman for German energy company RWE said.

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Internet traffic dropped by almost half after a new antipiracy law went into effect in Sweden, but a loophole could take the teeth out of the law.

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President Barack Obama and others are calling for a boom in electric vehicle production, which seems simple enough on the surface: Build the cars and plug them in. If only it were that easy.

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The US government is to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, having decided they pose a danger to human health and well-being.

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Scientists have warned that world leaders are in a race against time to make key decisions about the future of international co-operation in the Arctic.

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The New York Times unveiled plans to eliminate several weekly sections of the newspaper in the latest cost-cutting move at the prestigious but financially troubled daily.

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YouTube says it is partnering with major studios to stream full-length movies and TV shows on its site for free.

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A text-message to your stolen car, ordering it to shut down, is being heralded as a new way to thwart auto thefts.

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Time Warner Cable Inc. is shelving its plan to bill customers based on how much Internet traffic they generate, following mounting public and political outcry.

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Droughts lasting centuries occur regularly in West Africa, scientists find – and another one is coming, climate change or not.

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Today, humans perform visual inspections every two years of most of the nation’s older bridges. But with a scarcity of inspectors and tens of thousands of bridges, that process can be long and laborious.

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Scientists have found an ancient ecosystem below an Antarctic glacier and learned that it survived millions of years by transforming sulfur and iron compounds for growth.

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For the past decade, researchers have tried to tweak cells at the gene and nucleus level to reprogram their identity. Now, working on the idea that the signature of a cell is defined by …

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Scientists are celebrating the first successful deployment and retrieval in Australia of a remotely controlled, deep ocean-going robotic submarine destined to play a central role in measuring changes in two of Australia’s most influential …

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US President Barack Obama called for a US high speed rail service to rival the express trains of France, Japan, Spain and China, highlighting a 13 billion dollar government funding boost.

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You may want to thank David French in advance. Because, in the event that a comet or asteroid comes hurtling toward Earth, he may be the guy responsible for saving the entire planet.

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Motorists will be offered subsidies of up to £5,000 to encourage them to buy electric and hybrid cars under government plans.

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In the near future, a solar power satellite may be supplying electricity to 250,000 homes around Fresno County, California. Unlike ground-based solar arrays, satellites would be unaffected by cloudy weather or night, and could …

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Can you imagine an electric car that stores power and, depending on variable utility rates, returns it to the power grid over the course of a day? Fraunhofer researchers are exploring this visionary idea.

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A breakthrough study of fluctuations in sea levels the last time Earth was between ice ages, as it is now, shows that oceans rose some three meters in only decades due to collapsing ice …

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An international competition aims to turn the building blocks of life into useful technology Scientists at more than a hundred labs around the world will be gearing up this week for a competition to …

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The United Arab Emirates claimed its own version of Dolly the sheep, the world’s first cloned mammal, after the birth of a cloned camel in Dubai this month.

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Layoffs among Silicon Valley high-tech workers are picking up steam, new reports say.

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Microsoft Corp. announced it would be giving away more than 30,000 vouchers over the next 90 days to help unemployed people in Washington state get new computer skills.

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Biomass power could become one of the worst emitters of greenhouse gases by 2030, the Environment Agency warns.

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The European Commission called for tougher protection of Internet users’ privacy, urging a review of rules protecting personal information in the light of technological progress.

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Three media veterans plan to bundle the Internet content of newspaper and magazine publishers into a subscription package that will test Web surfers’ willingness to pay for material that has been given away for …

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Researchers have uncovered new evidence suggesting factors other than genes could cause obesity, finding that genetically identical cells store widely differing amounts of fat depending on subtle variations in how cells process insulin.

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Genetically modified corn can no longer be grown commercially in Germany.

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Scientific Collaboration on the Internet provides both broad and in-depth views of how new technology is enabling novel kinds of science and engineering collaboration. The book offers commentary from notable experts in the field along …

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In his new book, Jacques Attali takes a look at mankind’s future by midcentury — and it’s not pretty.

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These gardeners would have green thumbs — if they had thumbs. A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, harvest and pollinate cherry …

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A protein that the heart produces during its early development reactivates the embryonic coronary developmental program and initiates migration of heart cells and blood vessel growth after a heart attack, researchers at UT Southwestern …

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The latest indicators show a bottom may be close. But economists say China’s rebound will be too anemic — and potentially too short — to ease the global recession.

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Europe’s space agency is forging ahead on a project designed to protect its space-based systems.

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Ghost hackers infiltrating the computers of Tibetan exiles and the U.S. electric grid have pulled the curtain back on 21st-century espionage as nefarious as anything from the Cold War – and far more difficult …

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People in business often speak of NGO’s in a kind of wide eyed way, a mixture of fear and curiosity, but most vastly under estimate their capability. Granted, NGOs are as diverse as businesses …

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The vast, thinly populated expanses of the country that still lack cell phone coverage could be getting an interesting option next year: ordinary-looking cell phones that connect to a satellite when there’s no cell …

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Universities need to embrace new online media, social networks and a culture of "openness" as part of their pedagogy, or they risk becoming seen as anachronisms in today’s hyper-connected world where information is available …

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A tiny, flying robot is able to move objects precisely, and could be used to assemble mechanical components, handle hazardous samples or even perform microsurgery, engineers at the University of Waterloo say.

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Processing patents is complex and time-consuming. Using semantic web technology, researchers have come up with a powerful tool to process patents faster and better.

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Many view Dr. Lovelock as the father figure of the contemporary environmental movement. StockInterview talked with Lovelock about his latest book, todays environmental movement, nuclear energy and uranium mining.

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A newspaper report says spies hacked into the U.S. electric grid and left behind mechanisms for them to disrupt service.

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The president’s new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth’s air.

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US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad.

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Some people at Microsoft think that robot secretaries are the future. Are they right? Imagine that you went to the reception for your doctor one day, and instead of a person there to talk …

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What rising sea levels could mean for the America.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the closing keynote speech at the Newspaper Association of America’s annual conference Tuesday, conjuring up visions of an open, interactive future to the audience of newspeople.

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Many oil giants are balking at investing in new technologies favored by the president.

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The left hand seems to be faster at reconnecting to the brain after a transplant, a small study suggests.

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Banks are bailed out, but ecological debt rise.

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Few areas of Europe have taken such a body blow from the world economic crisis as Ukraine’s industrial heartland.

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Australian scientists have made a discovery that may one day remove the need for a lifetime of toxic immunosuppressive drugs after organ transplants.

MP3… The open source movement launched over the past few decades by computer programmers has morphed into a parallel “open innovation” movement. The emergence of cross-sectoral “distributed intelligence” points to the promise of …

RealAudio / WindowsMedia… Many of us associate our teenage years with mood swings, risky behavior and a sense of invincibility. And scientists say there’s a reason for that: adolescents brains are actually wired …

RealAudio / WindowsMedia… Demand for electricity is expected to spike by some 40% in the next two decades. And experts warn blackouts and rolling brownouts aren’t far away if the grid is not …

MP3… Joshua Cooper Ramo, partner at Kissinger Associates and author of The Age of the Unthinkable, discusses China’s efforts to divorce itself from the dollar and the future of US-China economic relations. And …

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The government launched an ambitious plan to make Australia one of the world’s most wired countries, shunning private bids and announcing that a new state-controlled company would build a 43 billion Australian dollar ($30 …

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The debt reduction is the latest evidence that Ford is powering ahead of General Motors and Chrysler in restructuring.

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Young adults with a genetic variant that raises their risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease show changes in their brain activity decades before any symptoms might arise, according to a new brain imaging study by …

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The design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, driven by sunlight is among the most important challenges facing science today, underpinning the long term potential of hydrogen as a clean, …

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An ice bridge that holds in place an ice shelf the size of Jamaica snaps, heightening concern over the impact of global warming.

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Retailers are closing stores, leaving malls scrambling to find ways to fill vacancies — like offering indoor surfing.

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nternet traffic dropped sharply in Sweden this week after a new law cracking down on online copyright violation went into force, experts said.

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US Ford drivers offered in-vehicle mobile on-board office, with broadband, Microsoft Auto OS and Opera browser Ford is to introduce what it claims to be "the world’s first broadband-capable in-dash computer system," to selected …

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A robot scientist that can think up theories and test them with almost no human help has taken artificial intelligence to a new level.

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French labor experts say anxiety and a sense of injustice have prompted workers to hold executives against their will.

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Scientists genetically engineer viruses to build the crucial components of batteries.

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In a new threat to Detroit, China is investing heavily in hybrid and electric-vehicle technology with a plan built on research, recharging stations and incentives.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to start monitoring orbital debris within the next few years, an official said at the close of the largest-ever conference on a worsening space peril.

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Author Douglas Rushkoff provides an optimistic view of the financial crisis in a talk at the San Francisco conference: it’s our chance to get rid of so many broken old systems.

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A newly discovered genetic abnormality that appears to prevent some men from conceiving children could be the key for developing a male contraceptive, according to University of Iowa researchers reporting their findings in the …

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Is it time to say goodbye to the name Web 2.0 as the web grows up and gets to work.

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Predictions for the future drawn up by US technology magazine Wired.

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Scientific evidence of an ancient movement of people from Ireland to Scotland are suggested by DNA techniques.

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Cable TV operators have treaded gingerly with online video. The companies want to meet consumer demand for watching shows on the Internet. But they don’t want cable TV to lose its place as the …

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Two US senators introduced legislation aimed at creating a powerful national cybersecurity advisor who would report directly to the president.

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Is today’s academic and corporate culture stifling science’s risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore? In April’s Physics World the science writer Mark Buchanan looks at those who have shifted …

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Europe’s flagship trading system to cut carbon emissions appears to be working, according to preliminary figures released by the European Commission.

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There’s gold in that thar sea floor. Silver, copper, zinc and lead, too. The problem is, it’s a mile or two underwater and encased in massive mineral deposits that layer a dark, mysterious world.

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As sea levels rise in the wake of climate change and semi-arid regions turn to desert, people living in those parts of the world are likely to be displaced. A mathematical approach to planned …

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The United States has taken a decisive step towards curbing greenhouse gas emissions with a cap-and-trade scheme.

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In a new study ancient DNA (aDNA) is retrieved from various insect remains without destruction of the specimens.

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People who live in the tropics have more baby girls, work reveals.

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Looking for images on the internet can be a frustrating business. Whether you want the perfect sunset over the sea or the London skyline by night, youre dependent on people to describe the images …

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Mapping the billions of connections in the brain is a grand challenge in neuroscience. The current method for mapping interconnected brain cells involves the use of room-size microscopes known as transmission electron microscopes (TEMs). …

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lobal warming could have chilling consequences for European livestock, warned Professor Peter Mertens from the Institute for Animal Health, at this week’s meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Harrogate.

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Science advisor in the US State Department Nina Fedoroff says humans have exceeded the Earth’s "limits of sustainability".

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The Sun-Times Media Group Inc., owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, the latest victim of the crisis gripping the US newspaper industry.

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The US Supreme Court dismissed cigarette giant Philip Morris’s appeal of a multi-million dollar punitive damage verdict awarded to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.

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A humanoid robot newly acquired by Imperial College London will lead to a deeper understanding of human intelligence.