America and China are the big hitters, but other nations also punch above their weight. … Read more

Using MR scans doctors say they expect better diagnoses of brain disorders, including malformations, growth problems or injuries that can lead to cerebral palsy and sometimes autism. … Read more

There’s an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft Corp. wants to undercut Google so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content from Google. Just don’t count on that …

Cotton seeds are packed with protein but regular plants produce a toxic chemical called gossypol. Now scientists have worked out a way to reduce the toxin. … Read more

Cutting out meat consumption on one day a week can have a major impact on reducing CO2 emissions, Sir Paul McCartney has said. He says halving UK meat consumption would do more to reduce emissions …

The more we understand about how the brain works, the clearer it becomes that often our brain kicks in before we do. For example, the more expert we become, the less we “think.”  Our brain …

It looks more like the Starship Enterprise sinking in the sea – but this huge vertical vessel could be the future of ocean exploration. Called the SeaOrbiter, the huge 51m (167ft) structure is set to …

The Coaching Connection presents a useful framework for creating a coaching culture throughout your organization whether you’re a coach-at-large, a mentor, an onboarding specialist, a career coach, a manager in an advisory/guidance role, or even …

Is global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilization deserve to survive? These are the unnerving …

Don Tapscott discusses the future of education at TEDxToronto.

Real Audio – Windows Media … China has become the world’s leading producer of greenhouse gasses – in large part from burning coal. An update on collaborative efforts between the U.S. and China to reduce …

As if Airbus and Boeing didn’t have enough to worry about already, the looming debt crisis in Dubai has cast a shadow over a backlog of aircraft orders, worth more than $60 billion, from Dubai, …

Studies suggesting the Arctic sea ice has made a modest recovery following its record-setting retreat in 2007 are misleading and underestimate the severity of the polar meltdown, says one of Canada’s top ice scientists. … …

Architecture could help us tackle climate change, if we start to design our buildings with ‘living’ materials, according to Dr Rachel Armstrong, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. … Read more

It’s no secret that traditional mass marketing — commercials, print ads, direct mail — is dying. The world is increasingly fragmented, even as it becomes more connected and global. Old institutions have given way to …

Twitter is the most rapidly adopted communication tool in history, going from zero to ten million users in just over two years. On Twitter, word can spread faster than wildfire. Companies no longer have the …

A mounting debt crisis in Dubai, the Gulf emirate whose boundless extravagance came to symbolize the excesses of cheap credit, is rattling investor confidence in emerging markets and raising fears of contagion in the financial …

Ecuador and China will form a joint venture to develop an oil bloc in the South American country that has proven reserves of 120 million barrels of crude, an Ecuadoran official said. … Read …

There is hope for those who miss one night too many or whose children keep them up at night. The unwelcome effects of a bad night’s sleep – forgetfulness, impaired mental performance – can be …

Our lives will change in myriad ways as humans scramble to avoid a catastrophic rise in global temperature. Nowhere is that clearer than in Portland and Multnomah County, which recently adopted one of the nation’s …

The next generation of computers may make use of the “spin” of electrons instead of their charge. … Read more

For the first time guidelines are to be published on how broadcasters around the world can encourage audiences to produce better quality user-generated content and to improve media and information literacy. … Read more

The device works by creating something called a plasma, which produces a cocktail of chemicals in air that kill bacteria but are harmless to skin. A related approach could see the use of plasmas to …

Beijing said it would aim to reduce its “carbon intensity” by 40-45% by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels. … Read more

Scientists now believe fossils found on the famous Allen Hills meteorite, which was discovered in 1996, are of bugs that originated on the planet. … Read more

Dubai’s financial woes have tamed the once-independent emirate and forced it closer to Abu Dhabi, which holds 90 per cent of the U.A.E.’s oil. … Read more

Brain Sense reveals a wealth of findings on how the brain and senses interact, as it examines each of the five major senses: touch, smell, taste, vision, and hearing. With eloquent writing and gripping stories, …

Where do greenhouse gas emissions come from? Which countries are most responsible for causing human-induced climate change? And have governments pledged tough enough cuts so far to keep the global average temperature rise within “safe …

Carbon labelling could unfairly disadvantage economies in the developing world, and mislead consumers, according to an interdisciplinary project carried out by the UK Research Councils’ Rural Economy and Land Use Programme. … Read more

A new theory that multiple sclerosis is a vascular disease that could be treated with simple surgery is so “exciting” and “potentially paradigm shifting” that the MS Society of Canada is calling on scientists to …

According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong ecologist and futurist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is real and is pushing …

They already detect and defuse bombs, control traffic patterns and do some basic household chores. And scientists predict that pretty soon, robots will be using artificial intelligence to play a larger role on the battlefield, …

While many are already talking about the notion of a shift in power from West to East, a thought-provoking book by author Martin Jacques called When China Rules the World takes this even further by …

MP3 … Are newspapers destined to become a relic of history? This hour we’ll talk with Richard Rodriguez, whose article “Final Edition: Twilight of the American Newspaper” appears in this month’s edition of Harper’s Magazine. …

MP3 … Have private corporations taken over the U.S. government? We’ll talk this hour with Allison Stanger, author of One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy (Yale …

Climate change poses a huge barrier to a fulfilling future, argues Lord Puttnam, an ambassador for Unicef UK. In this week’s Green Room, he asks what price children will have to pay for three or …

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a machine that uses the sun’s energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. The system could …

While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren’t necessarily selling more copies. … Read more

To design a lightweight anchor that can dig itself in to hold small underwater submersibles, Anette (Peko) Hosoi of MIT borrowed techniques from one of nature’s best diggers — the razor clam. … Read more

A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of …

Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings –- ones that …

New way of thinking about debilitating disease has yielded stunning new treatments – but MS societies urge sufferers to be cautious before experimenting. … Read more

Few things in the Web 2.0 world are more frustrating than attempting to justify Twitter to a nonbeliever. … Read more

US newspaper advertising revenue fell by nearly 28 percent in the third quarter, continuing a slide which has led to layoffs, bankruptcies and the closure of several dailies. … Read more

On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding. … Read more

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to address a question that has been challenging scientists for years: How do dietary restriction—and the reverse, overconsumption — produce protective effects against aging and disease? …

Researchers at GE Global Research have been awarded $2m (£1.2m) from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) — part of the US National Institutes of Health — to develop wearable radio-frequency-identification (RFID) sensors …

The biggest chemical battery in the United States is located near Interstate 90 in the small town of Luverne, Minn. The 80 ton device — the size of two tractor-trailers stacked on top of each …

Energy adviser and former Honeywell executive Maxine Savitz says there are enormous energy savings available through increased efficiency, as much as 30 percent by 2030. … Read more

Around the world, federal, state, provincial and municipal organisations are in a race to the future. In one way or another, they all face the same set of challenges: navigating in an environment of profound …

A new coalition of synthetic-biology companies, named the International Gene Synthesis Consortium (IGSC), has created its own set of guidelines that are intended to lessen the risk that gene-synthesis technology could be misused. … Read …

It is humanity’s oldest enemy. Despite all our science, a sixth of people in the developing world are chronically hungry. At a summit in Rome this week, world leaders reaffirmed a pledge to end hunger …

The government of Spain is making broadband internet access a universal right, forcing telecommunications companies to provide speeds of at least one megabit per second to all citizens by 2011. … Read more

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their brains. Their findings offer hope of being able to treat schizophrenia with …

Researchers from IBM and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have performed a computer simulation that matches the scale and complexity of a cat’s brain, and project members from IBM and Stanford have developed …

Every year, more than 250 billion pounds of plastic are produced worldwide. Much of it ends up in the world’s oceans, a fact that troubles MIT biology professor Anthony Sinskey. … Read more

Google Labs has brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a “Swirl” tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages. … Read more

Daniel Goh – “Vote for Art… is similar to Threadless, but with a collegiate focus. Vote for Art is partnering six major universities to host graphic design contests, where winning designers will get their artwork …

As warmer temperatures threaten to devastate plant species across the globe, scientists are taking the lead by relocating plants to safer grounds. … Read more

Cyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report. … Read more

The buildup of a huge market in China for renewable energy is luring global manufacturers and research teams to China, energy executives say. That’s causing concern in some corners that China – not the U.S. …

The technology for meshing digital data with actual images, or augmented reality, makes a jump to smartphones, and the market is taking off. … Read more

The school’s executive program offers participants the chance to learn and discuss how technology is changing, or even disrupting, their industries. … Read more

A ‘female Viagra’ that works on the pleasure centre of a woman’s brain to restore flagging libido could be on sale within two years. … Read more

MP3 … Media critic Ken Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine to the provider of all things Internet in his new book Googled: The End of the World As We Know …

Just eleven years old, Google has transformed the way we live and work — changing how we access information and disrupting the way entire industries operate, from advertising and news to publishing, TV, and telephones. …

Real Audio | Windows Media … It’s a collision of scientific extinction and cultural oblivion. Half of all human languages may disappear in our lifetimes, along with the cultures, traditions and knowledge they express. Anthropologist …

Polar bears — fierce and majestic — have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, polar bears are a symbol for the harsh beauty and …

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. …

An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians, the Han dynasty in China, Mayan cultures and …

Billed as Europe’s first “personalised paper”, “niiu”, a newspaper tailored to readers’ individual wishes and delivered to their door before 08:00 am, made its first appearance in Berlin. … Read more

An aggressive rollout of intelligent electrical meters is saving Italy’s Enel $750 million per year—and cutting customers’ bills. … Read more

When birds migrate over long distances — sometimes thousands of miles — they usually end up in exactly the same place year after year. Such accurate feats of navigation, accomplished by millions of birds every …

China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, housed at the National Super Computer Center in Tianjin was ranked fifth …

This week, lifelong human rights activist Kumi Naidoo takes over as international executive director of Greenpeace. Here, he explains why he is making the jump to a mainstream environmental organisation, and what role he sees …

Tim O’Reilly – It could be that everyone will figure out how to play nicely with each other, and we’ll see a continuation of the interoperable web model we’ve enjoyed for the past two decades. …

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) has hit back at a letter from prominent academics warning that science in Russia is on the verge of collapse. … Read more

Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television’s decline. … Read more

Bacteria which glow green in the presence of explosives could provide a cheap and safe way to find hidden landmines, Edinburgh scientists claim. … Read more

Kenji Hall – Actually, no money is sent from phone to phone. The email message is just a proxy for the transaction, which takes place between banks over a secure network. … Read more

Egypt’s technology minister says the country has applied to register an all-Arabic domain name. … Read more

It took just six months for a warm and sunny Europe to be engulfed in ice, according to new research. … Read more

In this game-changing must-read, Penenberg tells the fascinating story of the entrepreneurs who first harnessed the unprecedented potential of viral loops to create the successful online businesses — some worth billions of dollars — that …

With a surprisingly simple genetic tweak, scientists have transformed nematode worms into hermaphrodites. They report in the journal Science that lowering the activity of just two genetic pathways produces the change. … Read more

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first “universal” programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics — the rules governing the submicroscopic world …

Is Rupert Murdoch bluffing? Making a bold high-stakes gamble that will save the troubled newspaper industry? Or pursuing a pipe dream that can only end in failure?…. Read more

In a revision to the Google Books Settlement filed in federal court, Google and the Authors Guild made concessions to industry groups, regulators and others who have vocally opposed the plan. But the search giant …

Brazil and France have agreed a common position on fighting global warming before next month’s UN climate change conference in Copenhagen…. Read more

We are at a biological turning point: We can invent organisms to make our drugs and fuel, even recode our DNA. It’s easy to run away screaming, but author Michael Specter says we have to …

We are at a biological turning point: We can invent organisms to make our drugs and fuel, even recode our DNA. It’s easy to run away screaming, but author Michael Specter says we have to …

Duke Energy is working with ENN and China Huaneng Group on technologies both to produce fewer carbon emissions and to capture more of them…. Read more

The Next Big Thing in U.S. banking may be mobile person-to-person money transfers…. Read more

As more free-trade deals exclude America, Beijing could dominate a new Asian trade bloc…. Read more

Europe’s electricity companies have published a new report setting out a number of scnearios for shifting Europe’s electricity supply towards a carbon-neutral path by 2050…. Read more

Britain must adopt a ‘war time footing’ to tackle catastrophic climate change, a major report has warned…. Read more

<p>The Pope’s chief astronomer has conceded other intelligent beings could exist in outer space. The conclusion has been drawn by scientific experts called in by the Vatican to study the possibility of extraterrestrial life and …

Aseem Prakash, author of the book Midnight Economy: The New Business Order Emerging from the Shadows, argued in a recent BusinessWeek article that economic power is shifting towards the East and that many in business …

For centuries, farmers like Berhanu Gudina have eked out a living in Ethiopia’s central lowlands, tending tiny plots of maize, wheat or barley amid the vastness of the lush green plains.Now, they find themselves working …

The rate of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped by 45% and is the lowest on record since monitoring began 21 years ago, Brazil’s government says. Read more

Google’s digital book plan rides on revised deal. Read more

A gene that has long been implicated in the evolution of speech and language has given up more of its secrets. Read more

In a development that could have significant ramifications for the nation’s health care system, Baby Boomers may well be entering their 60s suffering far more disabilities than their counterparts did in previous generations, according to …

Tests carried out on pigs have given Australian scientists hope that they will be able to re-grow women’s breasts lost to cancer…. Read more

Although the cloaks may sound like something from Harry Potter, researchers in London were today given the go-ahead for a £4.9 million project to create a real invisibility suit…. Read more

Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to new …

Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new …

Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because they don’t get enough to eat, according to a new report published by UNICEF before a three-day international summit on the problem of world …

It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so…. Read more

Poor countries vulnerable to climate change plot a low-carbon future and challenge richer states to match them. … Read more

A group of students from Aberdeen University have shown that certain strains of E.coli can be used to automatically mend leaking pipes…. Read more

A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London’s skyline is outlined by an international team of architects and designers…. Read more

The world’s demand for oil will increase 40 percent within 20 years, the International Energy Agency said. But questions remain whether enough oil is left to meet those demands, even with conservation efforts…. Read more

The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance …

British broadcaster Sky launched an iPhone application Tuesday which allows viewers to watch live TV on the move and is thought to be the first commercial TV service backed by the broadcaster itself…. Read more

In an effort to plug gaps of knowledge about key ocean processes, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to develop …

The people of this small Dutch town are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming…. Read more

South Korea becomes the latest nation to adopt an international standard on carbon labelling…. Read more

Should techniques for training horses be eligible for a patent? What about a system for choosing a jury or fail-proof method for speed dating?… Read more

As more U.S. companies send their sophisticated R&D offshore, America must provide worker retraining to maintain its tech leadership… Read more

British scientists begin a new study to consider how human DNA is used in animal experiments and to determine what the boundaries of such controversial science might be…. Read more

Australian marine scientists have issued an urgent call for massive and rapid worldwide cuts in carbon emissions, deep enough to prevent atmospheric CO2 levels rising to 450 parts per million (ppm)…. Read more

Human embryonic stem cells could help people with learning and memory deficits after radiation treatment for brain tumors, suggests a new UC Irvine study…. Read more

Startup Opower is partnering with power utilities and applying behavioral psychology to energy conservation… Read more

Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put …

When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter, living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog …

In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster than conventional computers can…. …

Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay 500,000 dollars in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut…. Read more

Over the last 20 years, the sequencing of the human genome, along with related organisms, has represented one of the largest scientific endeavors in the history of mankind. The information collected from genome sequencing will …

Corporate might and commercial pressures are undermining research. It’s time for scientists to blow the whistle, say Stuart Parkinson and Chris Langley… Read more

Google Inc. is stepping up its push to sell advertising on cell phones, announcing a deal Monday to buy a mobile ad network, AdMob, for $750 million in stock…. Read more

The body charged with conserving Atlantic tuna has a "final chance" to get things right at its meeting, the US commissioner says…. Read more

Ministers say 10 sites in England and Wales are suitable for new nuclear power stations, the majority on existing sites…. Read more

A recently filed patent application suggests that Google is taking steps to promote news produced by major media companies on Google News…. Read more

Software company Zerofootprint has developed TalkingPlug, a network-enabled plug replacement that can gather energy usage data and control appliances…. Read more

Powered by tax cuts and stimulus spending, China’s October auto sales soared 72 percent from a year earlier, outpacing U.S. sales for another month… Read more

Wen Jiabao, China’s premier, has pledged $10bn in new low-cost loans to Africa over the next three years and defended China’s engagement against accusations it is "plundering" the continent’s oil and minerals…. Read more

Rising sea levels in Australia are worst in the west, where they are double the world average, new figures reveal…. Read more

A sensor system that joins vehicles in ‘platoons’ so they travel close together is being researched with European cash…. Read more

Days after coming to power in September, Japan’s new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China — one that would exclude the United States…. Read more

Everyone in Britain should have an annual carbon ration and be penalised if they use too much fuel the head of the Environment Agency will say…. Read more

Ed Miliband says the UK cannot "say no" to nuclear power as he is to unveil plans to fast-track a new generation of reactors…. Read more

The president of the Maldives strongly criticises the world’s rich countries for doing too little to stem climate change…. Read more

New technology makes it easier to find natural gas… Read more

Scientists last night raised hopes that microscopic nanoparticles could be injected into the spines of paralysed people to help them walk again…. Read more

Using imaging mass spectrometry, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed tools that will enable scientists to visualize how different cell populations of cells communicate. Their study shows how bacteria talk to …

Campaigners are stepping up efforts to curb online tracking of Internet use by firms that deliver adverts tailored to the specific interests of consumers, as polls reveal widespread unease with the practice…. Read more

It’s not just on Wall Street where dubious financial decisions are creating casualties. Municipalities, many of which made enormous financial promises when the economy was strong, are now confronting heavy fiscal burdens… Read more …

A new generation of nuclear power stations will today be approved by ministers, who insist they are a necessary source of energy to combat global warming. … Read more

It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan’s space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves…. …

MP3 … The march of computer technology continues. But as silicon chips and search engines become faster and more productive – can the same be said for us? The creator of Wolfram Alpha describes …

MP3 … Chris Brogan is a well-known name in the social media world through his prolific blogging and speaking, his involvement with organizations like Izea, and the new book he has co-authored, Trust Agents. …

For hundreds of years, scientists have been poaching design ideas from structures in nature. Now, biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley are working together to design a broad range of new products, such as life-saving …

Imagine living cells acting as memory devices; biofuels brewing from yeast, or a light receptor taken from algae that makes photographs on a plate of bacteria. With the new science of synthetic biology, the goal …

Are we in danger of running out of water? California’s population is growing by 600,000 people a year, but much of the state receives as much annual rainfall as Morocco. With fish populations crashing, global …

Teachers say digital homework leads to higher achievement… Read more

If you want to succeed on the Internet, forget trying to understand how the latest Web phenomenon works. Instead, you need to understand how the mind works. According to Jeffrey Stibel, the Internet is evolving …

What can we learn from the ways great designers think-and how can it improve our world? In this highly original book by journalist Warren Berger, in collaboration with celebrated designer Bruce Mau, ten groundbreaking principles …

Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS said…. Read more

The scientific ability to quickly and accurately identify species through DNA ‘barcoding’ is being embraced and applied by a growing legion of global authorities – from medical and agricultural researchers to police and customs authorities …

One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in …

The economic crisis has hit executive MBA and nondegree programs hard, but the savviest are adapting to the new market… Read more

The resolution of months of legal wrangling lets Skype turn to ramping up growth, developing products, and getting its Internet-calling service onto more wireless devices… Read more

The first Apple iPhone introduced us to the platform and brought touchscreen handsets to the forefront. The iPhone 3G stepped it up with the App Store and the iPhone 3GS made things faster. What can …

Google’s ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company’s history…. Read more

More and more Asians are looking closer to home when choosing B-school programs. Regional schools such as Indian School of Business and National University of Singapore are starting to give MBA programs at Harvard, Stanford …

Where key players stand on a deal to halt climate change… Read more

MP3 … If you’ve got stock or services you can’t move with cash sales, then the answer might be to barter. 20,000 companies now use Bartercard, accounting for annual transactions worth $10 billion – except …

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, visits Yale and speaks about Wikipedia, its purpose, criticisms and its place in the academic and human sphere. (58m 43s)

Japan’s government and gadget-makers are pioneering a wave of products aimed at improving the lives of senior citizens around the world…. Read more

The third-quarter productivity numbers show that business is squeezing more work out of employees in hard times… Read more

Germany, Mexico and the United States have crafted some of the world’s smartest policies for improving energy use, according to a study…. Read more

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus …

The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast…. Read more

Social networking is giving new avenues for top scientists to collaborate on their work…. Read more

A Californian company, SolarReserve, is developing a solar power system that can store seven hours’ worth of solar energy by focusing mirrors onto millions of gallons of molten salt, allowing the plant to provide electricity …

Linden Lab announced it is adding a new dimension to Second Life online world to give businesses private places for virtual meetings. … Read more

New research shows the economic importance of home-based businesses: They account for more than half of all U.S. businesses and employ more people than venture-backed companies… Read more

Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information could be generated automatically…. Read more

The Seoul city government will help fund a tree-planting project in a Chinese desert to reduce the amount of harmful "yellow dust" blowing over South Korea, officials said…. Read more

A modification to commercial optical fibre could be a promising route to solar power without large arrays, say researchers…. Read more

Scientists have an ambitious new strategy for untangling the evolutionary history of humans and their biological relatives: Create a genetic menagerie made of the DNA of more than 10,000 vertebrate species. The plan, proposed by …

New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities…. Read …

Astronauts may in future be wearing spacesuits equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital eyes, turning them into what the researchers call cyborg astrobiologists…. Read more

A team of researchers at Queen’s University Belfast’s Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) is working to develop futuristic communications systems that could help protect frontline troops…. Read more

Rocketing into space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go. That’s the future goal of this week’s $2 million Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert…. Read more

Australian scientists are achieving the world’s best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, taking them a step closer to creating commercial quantities of clean biofuel for the future…. Read more

Thailand is set for a water crisis in the near future and needs the political will to address the issue urgently, an international research group warns…. Read more

Students showcase a new wave of biological machines…. Read more

Russia announces that it plans to send a nuclear-propelled rocket into space by 2012. If it’s true, it will cap more than 50 years of effort by both the United States and Russia to use …

Queensland entrepreneur says 80 per cent of businesses will outsource their administration work within a decade…. Read more

A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less …

From Cheez Doodles to cars, marketers are increasingly trying out the new technology in an effort to make deeper connections with consumers… Read more

In the first quarter of 2009, about one-fifth of the Internet connections around the world were at speeds greater than 5 Mbps. Which countries can boast the fastest broadband connections? Read on to find out…. …

China today, say many analysts, is in a comparable position to U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century… an emerging power that the dominant global power of the time is trying to downplay. Then …

The technology for meshing digital data with actual images makes a jump to smartphones, and the market is taking off… Read more

The net, which turned 40 years old last week, is often touted as the ultimate tool of freedom and knowledge. But in another 40 years’ time, will we still be celebrating this extraordinary electronic marvel?… …

A personal in-car robot that promises to make driving a far more pleasant experience is being developed by technology experts…. Read more

An interview with James Fowler, co-author of the book Connected. … Read more

Distant targets will not halt dangerous climate change… Read more

Scientists are preparing to publish a report that examines, in part, whether robots could eventually become so smart they pose a threat to society, and will include concerns about the legal and ethical use of …

A sustainable energy initiative that will start with a huge solar project in the Sahara desert is announced by a consortium of 12 European businesses…. Read more

Google’s voice search tool now understands Chinese. The Internet giant announced on Monday that users of Nokia S60 series mobile phones could now search the Internet using voice commands in Mandarin Chinese…. Read more

An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it in place, a study has found…. Read more

Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist teamed up at Michigan State University. They’re developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments…. Read more

The first ever space hotel will be launched in 2012, say architects – and will cost £2.7million for a three-night stay…. Read more

Artificial nerves that allow people with false limbs to feel the heat and touch of another person’s hand are being developed by scientists…. Read more

Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth…. Read more

Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported…. Read more