MP3 … For more than 20 years, the mantra in Washington has been “more, not less” when it comes to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the expansion of homeownership. But in light of the financial …
Read the full story »Scientists reported discovery of two simple, inexpensive ways of boosting the amounts of healthful antioxidant substances in potatoes. One involves giving spuds an electric shock. The other involves zapping them with ultrasound, high frequency sound …
A British teenager has been given a new windpipe grown from her own stem cells in a pioneering operation. … Read more
By combining origami and electrical engineering, researchers at MIT and Harvard are working to develop the ultimate reconfigurable robot — one that can turn into absolutely anything. The researchers have developed algorithms that, given a …
China, facing the risk of embarrassment if it misses a looming environmental deadline, has ordered thousands of companies to close high-polluting plants as its leadership vies to retool economic growth. … Read more
The world needs to double food supply by 2050. That was the message of science and agriculture author, Julian Cribb when he spoke at the Grasslands Society of Southern Australia’s annual conference in Wangaratta last …
MP3 … For more than 20 years, the mantra in Washington has been “more, not less” when it comes to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the expansion of homeownership. But in light of the financial …
Irrigated by one of the world’s mightiest river systems, the Murray-Darling Basin yields almost half of Australia’s fresh produce. But the basin is ailing and scientists fear that as climate change grips the driest inhabited …
MP3… Richard Dawkins talks to Craig Venter and other leading scientists about the potential powers of genome science in the future. In May this year, researchers at the J Craig Venter Research Institute announced they …
MP3… Dr. Moira Gunn talks with the Director of Community for Harvard Medical School, Jason Bobe, about the Personal Genomes Project and “Do It Yourself” Biotech. (20m) [Tech Nation]
MP3 … Geolocation is the idea of using your smart phone to report where you are as you go through your day. A company called Foursquare is the leader of this movement. They’re best …
The United States may have reset its Russia policy, but the U.S. approach to the other states in the region is in dire need of a conceptual revolution. … Read more
A team at Tufts University near Boston led by an Italian physicist turned bioengineer has created a material that could eventually render whatever it covers invisible to the human eye, Italian news agency ANSA reported. …
A study has measured the amount of plastic debris found in a region of the Atlantic Ocean over a 22-year period. … Read more
The in-vogue idea of the ‘rise of Asia’ can be irksome. Lumping together civilisationally disparate entities like India and China with a motley collection of South-east, Central and West ‘Asian’ countries smacks of a persistent …
Ten years ago, it was nuts to think you’d have your entire music collection in your pocket. Today, no biggie. So what’s coming in the next decade? Plenty. The future of …
Adaptive software is the largely unfulfilled promise of mobile technology, but now a new platform developed by European researchers promises to finally deliver software that reconfigures itself depending on the context. … Read more
The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) said in 1981 people typically received the state pension for 25% of their life. But by 2000 increased longevity meant that the proportion of people’s lives during which they were …
Banks and mobile network operators are working towards a time when people will purchase pints of milk, Sunday newspapers and even train tickets with a ‘wave’ of a mobile phone. This is the future of …
The marriage of an American technology firm and a Taiwanese display panel manufacturer has helped make digital reading a prospective challenger to paper as the main medium for transmitting printed information. … Read more
Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought. … Read more
Researchers have designed a toothbrush that cleans teeth by creating a solar-powered chemical reaction in the mouth, doing away with the need for toothpaste. … Read more
Smartphones, tablet computers and online TVs are blurring the lines in the tech industry, and Intel is rethinking what it means to be a computer chip manufacturer. … Read more
Coastal development in New South Wales is set to become much more restricted, under new planning guidelines released today. The NSW Coastal Planning Guidelines have been developed in response to concern about the effects of …
The Wright State Research Institute is developing a ground-breaking system that would scan the skeletal structures of people at airports, sports stadiums, theme parks and other public places that could be vulnerable to terrorist attacks, …
In a mere 10 years, an intelligent kitchen worktop could be giving you advice on the curry you’re making, brainstorming salad ideas with you and reminding you to eat that stilton at the back of …
Finland wants to build the world’s first “green highway,” with service stations offering charging points for electric cars and pumps filled with local biofuels, the project manager said. … Read more
Update on San Francisco becoming a major hub of dot-com boom 2.0 – this time featuring companies that seem to be real businesses and actually make money. … Read more
Young people are exposing so much private information on social networking sites that they might have to change their identities in the future. The chief executive of Google has warned users on sites such as …
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