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 »The massive leak is complicating the belief that the Gulf of Mexico is the nation’s best source of oil and natural gas. Experts predict that production will slow while regulation and deep-water drilling costs will …
If urgent steps are not taken, South Africa will run out of water for future economic growth within the next five years. … Read more
The state-run Xinhua News Agency will launch its own search venture, giving Google a new, well-financed rival following the closing of its China-based Web search engine. … Read more
Figures released by Ericsson show that mobile data use has almost tripled in the past 12 months. Global data traffic had reached nearly 225,000 terabytes per month by the second quarter of the year. Only …
China leads the world in shipbuilding, according to the latest statistics released on the official Web site of the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry. In the first half of 2010, China’s shipbuilding capacity, …
Global youth unemployment has hit a record high following the financial crisis and is likely to get worse later this year, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said. … Read more
When the euro was conceived two decades ago, few people expected it to have to weather a storm as great as the recent global economic and financial crisis. And many observers now think the entire …
Google denies it has “sold out” its open internet and net neutrality principles in a proposal for new rules made jointly with telecommunications giant Verizon earlier this week. … Read more
Most synthetic biologists laboriously tweak a genome one small piece at a time, then look at how the new cell behaves. George Church, along with researchers Farren Isaacs and Harris Wang, has invented a technology, …
President Dmitry Medvedev said that a severe drought has slashed the country’s grain crop by a quarter and ordered the government to prevent a rapid growth in food prices. Some supermarkets said suppliers of basic …
Sign a Digital Will to bequeath your confidential and personal electronic, online assets to your loved ones. Harmindar Chawla (name changed on request) was just coming to terms with his father’s untimely death when he …
Chimps that can understand English, crows that have mastered physics and a very shrewd shrew: New research shows how we’ve woefully underestimated so many animals’ intelligence. … Read more
Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It’s not just a portent of things to come, …
A device thought to be the largest tidal energy turbine to be built in the world has been described by its developer as “simple and robust”. … Read more
Some of the cattle cloned to boost food production in the US have been created from the cells of dead animals, according to a US cloning company. Farmers say it is being done because it …
China has launched its biggest relocation program since the Three Gorges Dam, with 330,000 residents set to be moved to new homes to make way for a water project that will serve thirsty Beijing. … …
More than 11,000 Greek state-school teachers have asked to retire before changes are made to the pension system, raising the threat of a shortage of educators for the new school year. … Read more
In the race to build hybrid cars and wind turbines to feed growing demand for green technology, China has one clear advantage, it holds the world’s largest reserves of rare earth metals and dominates global …
According to Thursday’s South China Morning Post, officials in southern China’s Guangdong province are concerned about undocumented workers from neighboring countries. The SCMP cites the Nanfang Daily, the official newspaper of the Guangdong government, reporting …
How will people work 10 years from now? Gartner thinks it has a pretty good idea, predicting 10 major changes that will occur during the next 10 years. … Read more
Once again, jitters are spreading through the world of food. Wheat prices have surged a terrifying 50% since early June, the biggest jump in 30 years, according to HSBC. Droughts in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, …
Turning into reality science fiction of films such as “The Terminator” – where machines and men meld into reality – Canadian scientists have successfully connected brain cells to a silicon chip to “hear” conversation between …
There’s a joke that says an actuary is someone who would rather be completely wrong than approximately right. Unfortunately for investors, insurance companies and their armies of actuaries are turning out to be dead wrong …
Every window in Britain could potentially be turned into a solar power generator thanks to new technology developed by scientists. The new solar cell technology for harnessing green energy could revolutionise the power industry – …
The nation posted its biggest trade surplus since January 2009 as the value of China’s overseas shipments reached a monthly record 145.52 billion dollars in July despite slower export growth, customs authorities said. The data …
Recently, scientists reported a significant step toward that futuristic goal: an engineered strain of the gut bacterium Escherichia coli that can make a diesel-like mixture of hydrocarbons. The researchers, at South San Francisco-based biotech company …
China’s government has ordered 2,087 steel and cement mills and other factories with poor energy efficiency to close as it struggles to cut waste and improve the country’s battered environment. The “backward” facilities produce steel, …
Scientists are making plans to land a Nasa probe on the asteroid that is on a potential collision course for Earth, it has emerged. Asteroid 1999 RQ36 has a 1-in-1,000 chance of hitting the Earth …
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