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Skin Deep: The Fountain of Youth at Your Fingertips
Hand creams are a skin care sector that has grown more than 60 percent globally in the last four years, according to a marketing research company in Illinois.
Step right up, let the computer look at your face and tell you your age
People who hope to keep their age a secret won't want to go near a computer running this software. read more
Ban on betting would boost ailing economy, gambling critic says
Congress should resurrect the nationwide gambling ban that existed through most of the 20th century to help soothe a fragile U.S. economy shaken by the worst credit and financial crisis...
Digital TV Faces Technical Difficulties
Even if all goes smoothly, next February's digital television shift is likely to generate hundreds of thousands of complaints from television viewers around the country.
Antitrust group's worry: Will Yahoo disappear?
A leading antitrust watchdog group on Tuesday joined a growing list of those pressing regulators to interfere with Yahoo Inc.'s proposed search advertising partnership with Google Inc., advising the government...
New Technology Takes On Food Safety, Wastage And Inaccurate 'Best Before' Dates
Advances in sensing technology will help to reduce the wastage from 'farm to fork' that's contributing to the UK's £10 billion food wastage bill.
Step Back To Move Forward Emotionally, Study Suggests
When you're upset or depressed, should you analyze your feelings to figure out what's wrong? Or should you just forget about it and move on?
Republican And Democratic Values Compared
Hoping to answer the question of which political party has a monopoly on the "best" values and how religion affects these values, a professor compared the "extrinsic" values (financial success,...
New Process Eliminates a Fertilizer’s Blast Threat
A major chemical company has found a way to render nitrogen fertilizer useless as an explosive, and improve its value to some crops.
Revisions Sharply Cut Estimates on Malaria
The World Health Organization says the apparent drop in the number of malaria cases worldwide is a result of better statistical techniques.
Findings: Tapping Into What a Deer Sees, and Doesn’t
A new computer-generated camouflage is being promoted as the first camouflage scientifically designed to make hunters invisible to deer.
Chrysler to go electric in 2010
Chrysler this week joined the ranks of automakers promising to bring electric cars to the market in 2010.
Satellite phone company Iridium bought for 591 mln dlrs
Satellite phone company Iridium Holdings is being purchased for 591 million dollars by a private equity group, the companies said Tuesday.
A robot in every home? (Robot Special part 3)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observers like Bill Gates believe that by 2025 we could have robots in every home. In labs across Europe, researchers are creating designs that could become the robo-butler...
New polling system will track viewers' instant impressions of debate
Among the millions of Americans watching Friday's first presidential debate will be 2,000 with cell phone or computer mouse in hand.
Expect 'sticker shock' when booking holiday flights, professor says
Record-high fuel prices and new fees added by many air carriers will make the cost of flying home for the holidays significantly higher than last year, says a Purdue University...
Crop development timetable is pushed back
COVENTRY, England, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- British scientists say they've created a mathematical model that shows crop development on Earth started much earlier than had been thought.
A look to the future
Investigators from the Regenstrief Institute have led a demonstration of how health information exchange technologies developed and tested regionally can be used to securely share patient information across the nation...
Rensselaer Announces New Head of Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Jonathan Dordick, the Howard P. Isermann '42 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer, has been named the new director of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)....
UC Berkeley Expert and Association of Space Explorers Discuss Global Strategy to Defend Against Incoming Asteroids
UC Berkeley expert Karlene Roberts joins the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) Committee on Near Earth Objects (NEO) in presenting its findings, "Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response," at...
In pictures: Fruit glorious fruit
The Royal Institution's Sowing the Seed event explores the strange and ingenious methods that plants use to disperse their seeds
WTO probes Japanese tariff on Hynix computer chips
(AP) -- The World Trade Organization will examine whether Japan is complying with a ruling against its punitive import charge on South Korean computer chips.
GPS devices vulnerable to 'spoofing,' researchers say
GPS devices can be fooled into registering phoney co-ordinates by a rogue transmitter, despite systems meant to circumvent such tampering, say Cornell University researchers.
FDA issues warning about unapproved drugs
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning companies marketing unapproved products to stop manufacturing and marketing or face charges.
Purdue scientist invents new kind of oven
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says he's developed a new type of oven that quickly produces foods that appear and taste identical to...
Charity wants Ontario to help disabled afford 2nd-hand wheelchairs
An Ottawa charity that fixes and sells bargain-priced second-hand wheelchairs is calling on the Ontario government to help people afford those recycled wheels the way it helps people buy more...
You Write the Melody, Computer Handles Harmony
A computer program generates accompaniments tailored to individual musician styles.
Trashed Tech Dumped Overseas: Does the 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...