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Google grant to researchers aims at climate-connected disease
Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) has received $900,000 from Google.org to improve the use of climate information to predict disease outbreaks in East Africa. The...
Yahoo Bets On A Glass Half-full
Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang had bold words to say while announcing the company's third-quarter financial results. The only problem is that they might have been a different than disgruntled...
U.K. Approves Animal-Human Embryo Testing
British plans to allow scientists to use hybrid animal-human embryos for stem cell research have won final approval from lawmakers in a sweeping overhaul of sensitive science laws.
LinkedIn connects with investors for $22.7 million
(AP) -- LinkedIn Corp. has raised an additional $22.7 million to help insulate the steadily growing online business network from the economic storm and provide more financial flexibility.
Samsung Blu-ray players hooking up with Netflix
(AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co. is equipping Blu-ray DVD players so they can retrieve movies and TV shows from Netflix Inc.'s Internet streaming service, accelerating Netflix's push to develop...
The Hands-Free Future
Using motion sensors, brain signals and a heap of creativity, several new technologies promise to do away with cramped typing fingers, videogame-fried eyes and hoarse phone voices. This past summer...
VIDEO: Illegal Horse Fighting Exposed
Trained stallions kick, bite, and stomp each other in banned contests in the Philippines, a Sky TV report says. The games reportedly maim and wound thousands of horses each year....
The Final Countdown: McCain and Obama on Healthcare Technology
Question 14: Science and Healthcare Science Debate 2008 saved the best for last. Or at least they saved the most expensive for last. According to a 2007 study by Medicare...
Amazon.com profit soars but outlook and stock down
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday that its profit climbed 48 percent in the third quarter, but the company reduced its full-year sales outlook, showing that the online retailer...
Draft rules issued for new Net suffixes -- at $200K
(AP) -- The Internet's key oversight agency issued preliminary guidelines Wednesday for the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of alternatives to ".com" in the first sweeping changes to the...
Reducing CEOs' option-based compensation decreases risky investments
Since the recent bailout on Wall Street, the public has started to heavily scrutinize firms' large executive pay packages. This week, John White, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's...
Comcast startles customers with cyberteam help
(AP) -- Jordan Goddard was irritated when his Internet access started fading in and out. It had been down for hours the day before. When his cable TV went...
On My Bookshelf
In our office is a bookshelf. On that bookshelf are all the books we get sent to review. Most of them won't end up on curriculum book lists, but here...
Using your car key as a credit card?
(PhysOrg.com) -- BMW Group Research and Technology and NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, have unveiled a prototype of the world`s first multifunctional car key. The prototype...
Professor of Computer Science Diane L. Souvaine named to NSB
Souvaine is chair of the Department of Computer Science in Tufts University's' School of Engineering. Her specialty is computational geometry, a field which focuses on the design and analysis of...
A greener route to amines
Ruthenium complex provides environmentally friendly route to key industrial intermediates
Language: Disputed definitions
If you want to start an argument, ask the person who just said 'paradigm shift' what it really means. Or 'epigenetic'. goes in search of the terms that get...
Cash row threatens Earth-monitoring system
Europe's flagship Kopernikus mission faces potential delays.
AT&T: Long-delayed BlackBerry to go on sale Nov. 4
(AP) -- AT&T Inc. says that the new flagship BlackBerry model that was initially expected this summer, the Bold 9000, will go on sale Nov. 4.
SanDisk Developing 128 GB Micro-SD Card For 2011 Release
(PhysOrg.com) -- SanDisk one of the global leaders in flash storage cards is in the development stage of manufacturing a 128 gigabyte micro-SD card for cell phones. According to Deccan...
Forty percent of German high-tech firms see slowdown: federation
High-tech and IT companies in Germany are not yet feeling the pinch from the current financial crisis, but nearly 40 percent of them see declining sales in the coming months,...
Aetna to offer records in Microsoft HealthVault
(AP) -- Health insurer Aetna Inc. is becoming the first health insurer to team with Microsoft Corp. to give its customers an Internet-based vault for storing medical records they...
Cattle fed distiller's grains maintain flavor and tenderness of beef
The availability and use of wet distiller's grains in beef finishing diets continues to increase as the ethanol industry expands, and some Texas AgriLife Research scientists are trying to determine...
Quebecor launching new cellphone network
Quebec residents will have another cellphone provider to choose from in 12 to 18 months, when Quebecor Inc. launches a wireless network to compete with Bell, Rogers and Telus.
Good Taste Gets Bottled: Butternut Squash Seed Oil to Hit the Market
Delicious in a bottle: Researchers at Cornell's Food Venture Center turned the waste from a farmer's butternut squash into a marketable, nutty-tasting oil ideal for salad dressings and marinades.
Robot planter moves toward the sun
Designers from The Play Coalition have developed a robotic planter for the home that moves toward the sunlight as the sun moves across the floor.
Randeep Ramesh: India's entry to the space race is precocious
India's lunar rocket blast off this morning from the balmy island shores in the Bay of Bengal is about a country asking
FSU Scientific Computing Department Hosts International Conference
Researchers from all over the world will gather at Florida State University for a major international conference that focuses on predicting the properties of materials and finding new ways to...