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Irradiating iceberg lettuce, spinach effective but not fail-safe; critics cite consequences
FDA's latest ruling that spinach and iceberg lettuce can be irradiated weighs food safety against concerns about vitamin loss and cleaner farming practices.
"Undecided" Voters' Minds Already Made Up, Study Says
Memo to Barack Obama and John McCain: Most undecided voters may already have settled on you based on automatic mental associations.
Brea nursing home operator will pay $2 million to settle suit
The class-action case against Sun-Mar Heath Care Inc. alleged substandard care. About 4,000 elderly patients, who lived in the facilities between January 2005 and January 2008, joined the lawsuit. ...
$554 M awarded to Canadian research hospitals
Research-based hospitals across Canada gained $554 million in federal funding Thursday to attract and keep world-class researchers.
AT'T expands tech support to cover other gadgets
(AP) -- Phone companies have been expanding their technology-support offerings, and AT&T Inc. took that trend one step further Thursday by introducing a tech-help plan that's even available to...
New Microsoft photo site spends first day offline
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s new digital photo sharing site spent most of its first day offline as its servers strained to handle a flood of traffic.
Oracle's Ellison grabs top spot on best-paid list
(AP) -- Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, a longtime fixture on the list of the world's richest people, is now ensconced atop The Associated Press' rankings of the top-paid...
Sign language over a mobile phone
A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers...
Face transplants can work, studies show
LONDON (Reuters) - New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a French-Caribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that...
Paul Collier: Charles's fantasy farming won't feed Africa's poor
Paul Collier:A return to organic peasantry will feed only affluent angst. To take on global hunger, genetic modification is crucial
Eco-architecture Could Produce 'Grow Your Own' Homes
A bus stop that grows its own foliage as shade? A children’s playground, made entirely from trees? A shelter made from living tree roots that could provide natural protection against...
Is Your Gas Pump Ripping You Off?
When you fill up your gas tank, are you actually getting all the fuel you pay for? That's the question our CBS News Investigative Unit and some affiliate reporters set...
U.S. vows to take action against internet throttlers
Comcast has been ordered to stop slowing internet connections while Canada awaits word on whether the same fate awaits Bell.
Extra pounds mean insurance fees for Ala. workers
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama, pushed to third in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat....
Microsoft Taps Seinfeld As New Pitchman
Microsoft is trying to increase their cool quotient by placing comedian Jerry Seinfeld in ads with company chairman Bill Gates. Seinfeld will reportedly be paid $10 million.
Rock Band releasing Rush album for download
Harmonix Music Systems is releasing Rush's 1981 classic album Moving Pictures for download to its popular Rock Band video game.
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
Greenland glaciers still disintegrating … Study shows how cancer gene PTEN works … Untreated wastewater used in agriculture … Hubble sees filaments from magnetic field ... Health/Science news from UPI.
Countering IEDs
Billions of dollars spent on defeating improvised explosive devices are beginning to show what technology can and cannot do for the evolving struggle.
VIDEO: "Drunken" Street Dance in Japan
Forty thousand costumed revelers took to the streets in Tokushima, Japan, where some dancers emulate "drunken fools" in remembrance of a sake-infused 15th-century celebration.
Despite expanding diagnostic imaging, Canada lags behind other developed countries
Canada has significantly boosted its supply of diagnostic scanners since 2003 but the number still lags behind other developed countries.
Building near twin towers felled by fire, not explosives: report
Fires brought down a 47-storey office building at the edge of the World Trade Centre on Sept. 11, 2001, U.S federal investigators concluded Thursday, refuting conspiracy theories of explosives being...
25 year old message in a bottle reunited with its owner
As an eleven year old boy in 1985, Donald Wylie tossed a bottle into the Orkney sea, with a message asking its finder to track him down. Almost...
The Real Story Behind the 'Roof of the World'
Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas had more complicated formation than was thought.
YouTube User Wins Copyright Spat
In the first ruling of its kind, Judge Jeremy Fogel held that copyright owners must consider fair use before sending takedown notices.
New online store points to Cdn. retail upswing
U.S. online retailer CSN Stores said Thursday that it is extending its services into Canada.
Bugs In New iPhone Bugging Users
Many are complaining that the highly-hyped device has been letting them down, doing things such as dropping calls and loading Web pages slowly. Woes have also been reported with Nanos...
Lebanon to reform science and technology policy
Lebanon's parliament has endorsed a plan to reform science and technology policy with a focus on human resource development and capacity building.
BlackBerry Bold comes to Canada
Research in Motion's answer to Apple's latest iPhone arrived in Canada on Thursday, the first new model of the popular BlackBerry handheld device in more than a year.