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Video: Twitter: Free speech or terrorism?
What's Trending takes a look at the issues raised by tweeters in Veracruz, Mexico accused of causing chaos and panic with false tweets about a school being attacked. (September 6,...
Novartis fights patent rejection in Indian court
(AP) -- In a case that could affect India's role as drug provider to the developing world, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments Tuesday over whether the government had...
Well Blog: People with Misophonia Suffer From Everyday Sounds
People with misophonia have an extreme reaction to certain sounds, often become enraged or anxious at the sound of chewing or someone clearing his throat.
Bursts And The Rhythm Of Communication
People communicate in bursts. In communication, our behavior does not happen in a homogenous way over time, but rather there is universal behavior in which there is no communication, followed...
Encyclopedia Of Life Second Edition Debuts
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a free, online collaborative tool, is expanded in its second edition released today, offering information on more than one-third of all known species on Earth.EOLv2...
China poised to be world leader in electric cars
Do you have an electric car-charging station in your neighborhood? In your garage? I didn't think so. They're still pretty scarce, but that situation is likely to be short-lived. By...
Dot Earth Blog: Can Obama Escape the Alberta Tar Pit?
President Obama has a responsible route around the intense fight over a proposed oil pipeline.
FEATURE: Healthy ecosystems essential for future food security: global report
Focusing on ‘agro-ecosystems’, such as planting trees on farms and improving rainwater collection can help secure food.
Buyers favour traffic light labels
Grocery buyers are showing their support for ‘traffic light rating’ labels on packaged food, a new research shows.
McDonald's to show calories on UK menus
More than 1,000 McDonald's restaurants in Britain will begin displaying the calorie count of each fast food item on their menus, as part of a government-led program to fight obesity.
NIH centre faces spell in limbo
NIH centre faces spell in limboNature News , 05092011 doi: 10.1038/477141aMeredith WadmanCongressional paralysis threatens to stall translational medicine initiative.
Open science, Freedom of Information and the Big Journal monopoly | by Martin Robbins @mjrobbins
Our science should be free, but the Freedom of Information Act is a blunt and unintelligent approach that fails to tackle the journal monopoly.The conflict between tobacco behemoth Philip Morris International and the...
Menus Differ For City Foxes And Their Country Cousins
The old saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure" may need to be rewritten for Bakersfield, California, where it turns out that "Everyone's trash is the foxes' treasure." This...
Transcend says USB stick capable of 2 TB storage
"Imagine that going into your tablet!" The presenter at the Display Taiwan 2011 Technology Show recently was demonstrating a finger-length, thin USB flash drive of 16 gigabytes. She told visitors,...
Google doodles a playful mix of art and technology
A tribute to legendary Queen front man Freddie Mercury took center stage at Google in much of the world on Monday in the latest "doodle" merging technology and art to...
Samsung pulls tablet PC from trade show amid row
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Monday it has withdrawn its new tablet computer from a major electronics fair in Berlin after a German court accepted a complaint from US rival...
N.C. tobacco and cotton crops pummeled by Irene
In one county, farmers who had expected great harvests face a grim reality after the hurricane. Their fields have been shredded, with wilting leaves on stalks angled by winds.Before Hurricane...
Science Weekly Podcast: The science of human attraction
Zoology blogger Camila Ruz explores research into the role of a cluster of genes called the MHC, or major histocompatibility complex.She is joined by Dr Leslie Knapp from the University of Cambridge to...
Humankind's most ambitious science projects
To improve our view of a vast and complex universe, scientists are creating increasingly ambitious new tools. The work is not easy. Truly big science requires decades of expensive commitment...
Video: Ben Stein blames cell phones for declining U.S. productivity
Ben Stein suggests that cell phones are the blame for the decline in America's productivity.
Toshiba supersized, glasses-free, 3-D TV steals IFA show
(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba earlier this week showed off its new no-glasses 55-inch 3-D TV. The company says it is the worlds first large screen 3-D TV that does not require...
Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks
(AP) -- For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and...
Linux B-day celebrations rattled by break-in
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just days after celebrations marking the 20th birthday of Linux, the operating system revered around the globe as a rock-solid open source triumph, news surfaced that key servers...
Nude webcam photos lead to cross-border lawsuit
A U.S. judge clears the way for an Ohio woman to sue a Vancouver-based software company after naked video-chat photos of her were snapped without her permission.
Obama’s Retreat on Ozone Standards Angers Environmentalists
Analysts said the president could face repercussions from what environmental groups see as his brazen political sellout in abandoning stricter air-quality rules.
G.O.P. Stands on Health Mask Records as Governors
The three current or former governors running for president are united in their commitment to repealing President Obama’s health care law, but have had divergent approaches.
The Drone Wars: 9/11 Inspired Advances in Robotic Combat
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, unmanned aerial vehicles have expanded and become more advanced.
Newspapers versus Internet news: Is a review of subsidies for the media in the UK warranted?
Despite declining sales of newspapers and shrinking broadcast audiences for the largest channels, new research shows that public support for the media is still based on arrangements put in place...