Windows Media | Real Audio … Can an injection help you stop smoking? Or end a drug addiction? We hear about a new approach to curing addiction that works like the flu vaccine. How your …
Read the full story »Cityscapes of glass-clad buildings gleaming in the sun make Anna Dyson think about wasted energy. Dyson heads the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, or CASE, a research consortium that wants to turn office windows …
The Obama administration is weighing the merits of taking China’s censorship of Google Inc. to the World Trade Organization as an unfair barrier to trade, a move that could further raise diplomatic tensions. …
There are more genes in the flora in the intestinal system than the rest of our bodies. So many that they are being dubbed our “second genome”. A study published in the journal Nature details …
Of all the economists in Iceland Dr. Eyjolfur Gudmundsson has the most unlikely vantage point from which to observe the tribulations of the financial markets: deep space. Dr. Gudmundsson is the lead economist for CCPgames, …
Wide-scale adoption of low-emission distributed energy could reduce the cost of transitioning to a low-carbon future by as much a $130 billion by 2050, according to a new report released today by CSIRO. … Read …
University of Calgary chemistry professor David Cramb is a step closer to helping solve a complex problem in nanotechnology: the impact nanoparticles have on human health and the environment. … Read more
New methods of targeting certain treatments to smaller patient populations could drastically change the sales patterns of well-known drugs—for better or worse. … Read more
City residents across the U.S. are campaigning for a slice of the millions Google plans to spend on broadband. … Read more
We already have iris and fingerprint scanning but noses could be an even better method of identification, says a study from the University of Bath, UK. … Read more
EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said yesterday that Greece must reveal new measures “in the coming days” to allay officials’ concerns that the current austerity plan falls short. … Read more
One of the most common weed killers in the world, atrazine, can chemically castrate male frogs, turning them into females that lay eggs, say U.S. researchers. … Read more
A heart patient’s own skin cells soon could be used to repair damaged cardiac tissue thanks to pioneering stem cell research of the University of Houston’s newest biomedical scientist, Robert Schwartz. … Read more
Authorities have smashed one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 million poisoned PCs. … Read more
The regular pension system alone – which doesn’t include public employees – is on course to swallow up 17% of GDP by 2040, from 7% in 2007, according to a report last year by the …
Daimler AG and BYD Co., the Chinese carmaker backed by billionaire Warren Buffett, will jointly develop an electric vehicle to be sold in China, the world’s largest auto market. … Read more
They are among about 300,000 families driven to Damascus, Aleppo and other cities in one of the “largest internal displacements in the Middle East in recent years,” according to a Feb. 17 report by the …
In recent years, climate change seems to have elbowed out other environmental issues to become the No. 1 global problem. But the alarming worldwide water scarcity is an equally important issue, and an even more …
European Union Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn will likely push Greece to do more to cut its budget deficit today as governments craft a possible rescue package for the cash-strapped nation. … Read …
The study of modern languages could die out within the next 20 years because of the government’s focus on science subjects, leading academics have warned. … Read more
People have been asking for a while now whether there are too many charities—either too many focused on accomplishing the same things, or too few able to prove social impact. … Read more
Acting as a microscope for sound, a new device called a micro-ear could make objects on the micro-scale audible. The device could enable scientists to listen to the sounds that cells and bacteria make as …
New sensors built using nanotechnology could read and write information directly into the brain. … Read more
A journey from Earth to Mars could in the future take just 39 days — cutting current travel time nearly six times — according to a rocket scientist who has the ear of the US …
Coffee producers say they are getting hammered by global warming, with higher temperatures forcing growers to move to prized higher ground, putting the cash crop at risk. … Read more
A single cell in the human body is approximately 10,000 times more energy-efficient than any nanoscale digital transistor, the fundamental building block of electronic chips. In one second, a cell performs about 10 million energy-consuming …
Microsoft on Thursday said it combined technology with an “extraordinary” legal maneuver to cripple a massive network of hacked computers that had been flooding the Internet with spam. … Read more
Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. … Read more
European researchers are creating technology that will treat neighbourhoods like a miniature power grid, sharing energy generated at each house according to need. Allied to a host of other developments, the concept promises huge energy …
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