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Well: Pumpkin for Breakfast, Dinner and Dessert
In this week's Recipes for Health, Martha Rose Shulman offers new ways to prepare that late, great fall vegetable, the pumpkin.
Tightwads and spendthrifts: A Black Friday tradition
Every year about this time, on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that traditionally begins the holiday shopping season, early-morning consumers stand in long lines eager to purchase some sought...
Worth a thousand million words: Researchers create 3-D models from online photo databases (w/ Video)
Who says Rome wasn't built in a day? Computer scientists have invented a technique that automatically creates 3-D models of landmarks and geographical locations, using ordinary two-dimensional pictures available through...
BP, government praised for inventive response to oil spill
But a presidential panel also sharply criticizes the company, industry and federal agencies for being unprepared for an environmental emergency in the Gulf of Mexico. Tribune Washington Bureau
Visor might protect troops from blasts
Current military helmet lets explosive forces in through the face, computer simulations show
Banking on predictability, the mind increases efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like musical compression saves space on your mp3 player, the human brain has ways of recoding sounds to save precious processing power.
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
The constant stream of stimuli offered by new technology poses a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
New American Chemical Society Prized Science video focuses on shrinking the computer chip
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2010 -- The science that helped make today's smartphones and iPods smaller but more powerful than yesterday's desktop computers highlights the latest episode in the...
Hybrid tugboat cuts emissions, University of California, Riverside study shows
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) --A new study by University of California, Riverside scientists of what is believed to be the world's only hybrid electric tugboat found that the vessel is effective...
Green: Should Nations Bankroll Coal Plants Overseas?
Some argue that pension funds and banks that have guidelines for environmental sustainability should promote clean energy overseas, not coal plants.
More consultations on telecom rules: Clement
A new auction of wireless spectrum is expected by 2012, Industry Minsiter Tony Clement says.
A Trip Abroad to Design More Efficient Computer Chips
Graduate student Jakub Szefer of Princeton University traveled to Taiwan to work on a project to improving the efficiency of computer microprocessors.
All I Want for Christmas is a 3-D TV
The season's 3-D TVs have all the new features plus 3-D. Learn why plasma may be your best buy and where the deals are this season.
Two Big Ways to Upgrade Your HDTV
How to add surround sound and Internet connectivity to your HDTV, whether you're on a budget or ready to splurge.
Chatrooms and social websites encourage bad spelling, says study
Internet fosters belief that there is no need to correct typos or conform to rules, English Spelling Society findsInternet chatrooms and social networking sites are encouraging children to spell words incorrectly, new research...
U.S. and European Immunologists Publish Joint Position Paper On New Initiative to Improve Reliability and Interpretation of Data Derived from T Cell-Based Immune Monitoring Assays
Joint position paper by U.S. and European immunologists describing an international collaborative effort to arrive at minimal reporting requirements for T cell-based immune monitoring assays
'M8' earthquake simulation breaks computational records, promises better quake models
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers has presented the world's most advanced earthquake shaking simulation at the Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) conference held this week in New Orleans. The research was selected...
Verizon grabs for Internet speed crown in new plan
(AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. is zooming past cable-company competitors by tripling the top download speed of its FiOS Internet service to 150 megabits per second, or 50 times...
Irish drug industry fears bailout tax terms
Ireland’s 12.5 per cent corporation tax rate helped the Celtic Tiger develop its pharma industry, which now fears an increase
Sleep program needed for IT engineers
Insomnia is bad news for software engineers' quality of life and deserves greater recognition and attention, according to new research by Sara Sarrafi Zadeh and Khyrunnisa Begum from the University...
New Globus Online service to use the grid for high-performance file transfer
A new tool that will provide secure filetransfer service to manage largescale data was introduced Nov. 18 at an international conference in New Orleans. Globus Online, which will use a...
Economic benefits of the global polio eradication initiative estimated at $40-50 billion
A new study released today estimates that the global initiative to eradicate polio could provide net benefits of at least US$40-50 billion if transmission of wild polioviruses is interrupted within...
1,000 mph Car 'On Track' to Break Record
The British car called Bloodhound could reach 1,000 mph, breaking a land speed record.
Video games sought by DND
Canadian soldiers stuck in lonely outposts in Afghanistan are the lucky recipients of a big stash of video games ordered just months before the military pulls out.
Georgia Tech-Led Team Wins Gordon Bell Prize for Supercomputing
A team led by George Biros, associate professor in Georgia Tech's School of Computational Science & Engineering (CSE), has won the Association for Computing Machinery's Gordon Bell Prize for the...
Wi-Lan sues Comcast, Time Warner
Technology licensing company Wi-Lan Inc. says it has initiated a lawsuit against Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., and Charter Communications, claiming that each violates one of its patents in...
Recession clipped CO2 emissions slightly
The crisis that hit world financial markets in 2008 caused greenhouse gas emissions to dip slightly the following year, but far less less than previously predicted.
Statoil finds risks at offshore field
STAVANGER, Norway, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Norwegian energy company Statoil said Monday it found major risks with drilling at the Gullfaks oil and gas field, echoing a government report.