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Next Frontier: "Seasteading" The Oceans
Is Steve Jobs a music visionary? Greg Sandoval writes that in 2003 Jobs correctly predicted what the future held for digital rights management, music subscription services, the four largest recording...
Google Offers "Latitude" To Track People
New, free software enables you to keep tabs on the whereabouts of others, and vice versa, using their cell phones, reports CNET-TV's Natali Del Conte. But how accurate is it?
System Targeting Auto Fraud To Go Live
The Department of Justice said an online program that will allow consumers to track a vehicle's detailed history, including whether it was stolen or spent time in a scrap heap,...
Tech Ads Shoved To Sidelines For Big Game
With price tags that can reach nearly $3 million, Super Bowl ads are something that could disappear quickly from a budget amid financial panic.
Physics, math provide clues to unravelling cancer
Biology exists in a physical world. That's a fact cancer researchers are beginning to recognise as they look to include concepts of physics and mathematics in their efforts to understand...
Feds rarely file charges in tainted food cases
ATLANTA (AP) -- As federal officials launch a criminal investigation into a Georgia peanut processor at the center of a deadly salmonella outbreak, food safety experts...
US university official jailed for trafficking cadavers
A former top official at the University of California at Los Angeles was Friday sentenced to more than four years in jail for trafficking bodies for medical research, court officials...
Bioenergy research funding available
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Up to $25 million in funding for research and development of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products is available from two U.S. departments.
AIDS Coordinator Is Dismissed
The departure of the State Department’s global AIDS coordinator has led to debate over who should oversee the country’s commitment to fighting AIDS overseas.
Patient Money: Making the Most of Flexible Spending Accounts
Flexible spending accounts offer a tax break and can stretch health care dollars, if used wisely.
Recruiting men to nursing remains a challenge
With the shortage of nurses in Canada projected to grow worse, more needs to be done to attract men into nursing, an expert has told the Canadian Nursing Students Association...
Tobacco companies target girls
Tobacco marketing in South Korea has been deliberately aimed at girls and young women. Research published in the open access journal Globalisation and Health has shown that transnational tobacco companies...
Japan airline in world first 'camelina' biofuel test flight
Japan Airlines (JAL) on Friday carried out the world's first successful test flight of a Boeing aeroplane run on biofuel made primarily of a non-food energy crop called camelina.
Biodiversity passes the taste test and is healthier too
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cattle and sheep grazed on natural grasslands help maintain biodiversity and produce tastier, healthier meat, according to a study by the University of Exeter. The research concludes that...
Pfizer To Buy Rival Wyeth
Deal will create a drug giant with $71 billion in annual sales
Ghana gets a science minister after three years
After three years without a science minister Ghana has appointed biochemist Shirley Ayitey — part of a promise to restore science to the country.
Julian Glover: A meeting of scientists at Davos celebrated the end of the antedeluvian Bush years
At Davos this morning some of America and Britain's leading scientists came together to share their delight in the downfall of George Bush's antedeluvian administration.
AP, NYT, news groups urge court webcast in music case
(AP) -- Fourteen news organizations, including The Associated Press and The New York Times Co., are urging a federal appeals court to allow online streaming of a hearing in...
LA council votes to keep Billy the elephant
Billy the elephant is staying put, and Bob Barker isn't happy about it.
Porn claims endanger science foundation funds
The ranking GOP member of the Senate Finance Committee wants Congress to reconsider new funding to the National Science Foundation amid allegations that top staffers spent long stretches of their...
High Altitude Balloons Creating New Jobs
ESA backed high altitude balloon experiments are training students for high demand careers in science and engineering.
British govt promises broadband access for all
Every home in Britain will be guaranteed access to broadband Internet under plans unveiled by the government on Thursday, which put the technology on a par with telephones as an...
Web site sows support for White House farmer
(AP) -- An Illinois family is sowing support for a White House farmer with a Web site allowing people to nominate and vote for their favorite growers.
Common chemical causes locusts to swarm
A chemical that affects people's moods also can transform easygoing desert locusts into terrifying swarms that ravage the countryside, scientists report.
Robots To Clean Your Kitchen And Play A Game Of Hockey?
Scientists are working on software that will enable robots to learn. It won't be long, they say, before personal robots are part of our lives.
Listen to the world on a shoestring, or more if you're game
I've been using a thumb-size gadget that is a riveting example of how the Internet has turned our vast planet into a small village.
US tech sector job cuts hit five-year high: firm
Nearly 187,000 workers in the US technology sector lost their jobs last year, the highest number in five years, consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Thursday.
Youths rule Internet, but elderly making gains: study
Growing numbers of American seniors are going online, chipping away at the dominance of 18- to 44-year-olds who comprise half the Web population, according to a study released Wednesday.