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Q & A with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: Master of Private Space Dragons
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk answers SPACE.com's questions on his hopes for SpaceX's first Dragon spacecraft launch and commercial spaceflight.
Food Safety Bill Hits A Snag
Congress: Senate passes landmark legislation, but procedural error brings more delays.
E.ON dumps Gazprom shares
DUSSELDORF, Germany, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The sale of a 3.5 percent stake in Gazprom "in no way" alters the relationship between Russian gas monopoly Gazprom and Germany's E.ON,...
Video game to help drive genetics research
People who play a simple online video game developed by Montreal researchers are helping crack problems that leave computers puzzled. The solutions could lead to discoveries about diseases like cancer.
WikiLeaks Breach Highlights Insider Security Threat
The ongoing WikiLeaks exposé not only circulated hundreds of thousands of secretive government documents , it has also swiftly prompted changes to the system designed to share...
Fire forecast technology could help rescue teams save lives
Fires in homes and offices could be tackled more efficiently using technology that predicts how a blaze will spread...
NC State and IBM researchers discover new way to patch holes in the 'cloud'
Researchers from North Carolina State University and IBM have invented a way to update computer systems packaged in virtual machines in a computer 'cloud' - even when those programs are...
Broadening the base of publicly funded health care
Health care costs and expenditures are expected to rise over the next decade or two and governments need methods to publicly finance these costs, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian...
Internet access to return to flights, says Lufthansa
The leading German airline, Lufthansa, said Tuesday that it will offer Internet access on nearly its entire network by the end of next year, beginning with some flights to North...
Supreme Court rejects Tiffany appeal of eBay ruling
The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by luxury retailer Tiffany of a ruling that eBay cannot be held liable for trademark infringement for counterfeit items sold through...
Neuroscience of instinct: How animals overcome fear to obtain food (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When crossing a street, we look to the left and right for cars and stay put on the sidewalk if we see a car close enough and traveling...
From Koogle to Yideotube, efforts to provide a kosher Internet
From a drab office in this ultra-Orthodox Jewish stronghold, three devout young women hunch over computers and surf the Internet - looking for pornography, celebrity gossip and a laundry list...
WikiLeaks: No chance for IPI pipeline
NEW DELHI, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- American diplomats in the latest document dump by the Internet watchdog WikiLeaks said it was unlikely that Iran would build a gas pipeline...
Plants that glow on their own developed
Red roses with glowing petals, poinsettias lit up for Christmas and shrubbery that illuminates communities at night, rendering street lights unnecessary — that's the vision behind the company BioGlow, Inc.,...
Measuring poverty
May 2010 saw the launch of the largest-ever research project on Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK. Professor David Gordon, Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research,...
Human excreta may help secure future food security
LONDON (Reuters) - Human excreta could have a key role in securing future food security, helping prevent a sharp drop in yields of crops such as wheat due to a...
Minsk says no to natural gas price hike
MINSK, Belarus, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Benefits for other consumers means Minsk should expect Russia to keep natural gas prices unchanged for 2011, the Belarusian prime minister said.
B.C. biotech firm develops non-browning apple
A B.C. biotechnology company asks the U.S. to approve a genetically modified apple that won't brown soon after it's sliced.
Harvard Foundation honors Jagland
The Harvard Foundation presented its annual Humanitarian Award to Thorbjørn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and secretary-general of the Council of Europe. The award, which bears the signature of Harvard’s...
Experts say: Don't blame the operators for bank glitch
The National Australian Bank's widespread delays in processing payments and transactions have been blamed on a corrupted file, but sensible design of enterprise systems should be able to overcome this...
Ottawa to set new lead limits
The federal government is poised to set new limits on the amount of lead allowed in consumer products, CBC News has learned.
Tax Dollars at Work: 12 Government Apps
The White House Office of New Media has released a list of the best Government Apps available to the general public.
China's Tencent to offer Facebook-like services: report
Chinese Internet firm Tencent plans to offer users links to third-party websites and access to externally developed applications, mirroring some features of Facebook, a report said Monday.
Vince Cable restricts export of drug used in US executions
UK-manufactured sodium thiopental was given as a painkiller before lethal injections in US jailsThe business secretary, Vince Cable, is to introduce export restrictions on the painkilling drug sodium thiopental after it emerged that...
Roche Decision Reverbates
Pharmaceuticals: Drug firm's exit from RNAi space hits Alnylam, Tekmira.
Feature: Virtual class shares real lessons
Catherine Norwood details how incorporating social network to a tertiary study program has led the course to a more student-centred approach.
Guardian Style digested, by John Crace | Mind your language
Grammar is the set of rules followed by speakers of a language, innit? By everyone except Guardian writersWelcome to the latest edition of Guardian Style, a book that will be as little...
US woman @theashes becomes Twitter celebrity
A US woman with the Twitter name @theashes who was bombarded by messages about cricket was offered a free flight to Australia and started selling her own commemorative T-shirt Monday.