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Tips for infant formula-buying consumers
* When buying infant formula, check the label. The Food and Drug Administration says there's no need for concern unless the product comes in packaging with Chinese characters on the...
Canada recalls Hygaard-brand sandwiches
OTTAWA, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to consume Hygaard-brand sandwich products because of possible contamination.
Preventing forest fires with tree power
MIT researchers and colleagues are finding out whether energy from trees can power a network of sensors to prevent spreading forest fires. What they learn also could raise the possibility...
Ex-suspects want police to pay for dead marijuana plants
After the case against the Colorado couple fell apart, they were given back their seized property -- which had gone unmaintained in a police evidence room. ...
Science minister attempts to reopen the debate on GM crops
Ian Pearson predicts public will accept GM crops if they can be convinced technology will benefit consumers
Flexibility helps pre-schoolers learn
Teachers who are able to manage their own teaching environment create a sense of security that helps pre-schoolers' learn, research has revealed.
Robot wheelchair finds its own way
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a...
Vanderbilt Researchers Seek To Make Standardized Tests Accessible
Standardized testing is an inescapable part of modern education; however, these tests often fail to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Researchers have developed a decision-making instrument called...
Facebook CEO: "Change Can Be Difficult"
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has caught on to the fact that a sizeable handful of his 100-million-plus users say they aren't too thrilled with the site's new redesign. But he...
Telus backtracks, says small ISPs should also pay for throttling probe
Telus has reversed course in demanding that Bell Canada pay all the costs of the CRTC's investigation into that company's internet throttling practice, now saying that small service providers involved...
New tool for 'right first time' drug manufacture
A technology which provides high quality images of the crystallisation process marks the next step towards a 'right first time' approach to drug manufacture, according to engineers at the University...
National survey finds information tech and business alignment a struggle for American companies
The Society for Information Management (SIM) has released an important part of its annual survey results, reporting that IT executives continue to identify lack of IT and business alignment as...
Satellite Insurance Rates Driven by Capacity, Not Track Record
Satellite insurance underwriters and brokers said the market is healthy.
Companies joining to push music on memory cards
(AP) -- Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card?
Teens' dangerous diet
A quarter of Australian teenagers eat fast food everyday and more than a third hardly ever eat fruit, a Deakin University study has found.
Customers choose colour
It is the ease with which consumers can identify a product by colour that gives a brand a distinct marketing advantage, according to research from UniSA’s Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing...
Opinion: Haunted by economic myopia
Distorted economics, coupled with ideologically driven decision making, is threatening Australia’s best efforts to preserve its natural heritage.
One in three truckies drive sleepy
Monash University research has revealed one in three truck drivers has fallen asleep at the wheel within the space of just 3 months.
Opinion: Is it really worth cutting emissions?
Now that a carbon trading scheme in Australia is becoming a reality, many are questioning whether it is really going to be worth it. Mark Morrison argues that the answer...
L.A. Needs Yoga
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Busy and valuable: Bees are worth $220bln a year
Bees and other pollinating insects are worth 153 billion euros (220 billion dollars) a year, thanks to their help in growing fruit, vegetables, oil crops, coffee, cocao and spices, a...
Apple to replace iPhone 3G power adapters due to shock risk
Apple said Friday it will replace power adapters sold with its popular iPhone 3G mobile telephones because of a risk prongs will snap and cause people to be jolted by...
Hikers make a mountain out of a Welsh hill
Three hikers have made a mountain out of an old Welsh hill. Great Britain's national mapping agency said Friday it would reclassify one of Wales' peaks after three walkers conducted...
World's Biggest Particle Smasher Springs a Leak
Rupture in 27-kilometer machine could cause weeks of delays
Becoming popular on web is hard, staying popular harder: study
Only slightly more than half of the most popular web pages right now would have been on a similar list a year ago, according to a Canadian researcher, a finding...
Lehman lifeline was critical to chip maker AMD
(AP) -- With Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s cash reserves dwindling and the chip maker's overall financial health deteriorating to dangerous levels last year, the company was thrown a lifeline...
Trashed Tech Dumped Overseas: Does U.S. Care?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows that most of the 1.9 million tons (1.7 million metric tons) of discarded cell phones, computers and televisions, among other electronic goods, went...
Financial Web sites get busy amid turmoil
(AP) -- A volatile week on Wall Street drew heavy traffic to financial Web sites, as investors hastened to check their portfolios or move money around in what was...