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Efficiency Experts Seek To Save Precious Minutes In Deploying Ambulances
Every extra second it takes an ambulance to get to its destination can mean life or death. But how, besides driving faster, can ambulances get emergency services to people in...
Hurdles seen blocking potential of mobile phone TV
Television viewed on mobile phone handsets could be a huge revenue generator for the telecoms sector but significant hurdles stand in the way, industry players and analysts said Thursday.
FDA warns against fake cancer cures
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is cracking down on the sale of products that fraudulently claim to prevent or cure...
California clamps down on genetic testing industry
Cease and desist letters from state's department of health could spell end for genetic tests being sold to public
Great apes plan ahead
Apes can plan for their future needs just as we humans can – by using self-control and imagining future events. read more
Focus Attention Upon Distributors Of Human Growth Hormone, Scientists Urge
A great deal of attention has been paid to the use of growth hormone by elite athletes and a few vocal entertainers. But underlying this tip of the iceberg is...
San Diego Region's First Science Festival to be Launched March 2009
Over 250 free events scheduled for the public at UC San Diego, Salk Institute, Burnham Institute, The Scripps Research Institute and other venues throughout San Diego County.
Fund aims to make rainforest worth more living than cut down
A multimillion-dollar fund launched in Britain on Tuesday will help preserve the Congo Basin by paying for projects that make the world's second largest rainforest worth more as a living...
Canada 'laggard' in communications: University of Waterloo president
Canada has squandered its global lead in telecommunications, says University of Waterloo president David Johnston.
Lower costs drawing users to mobile Internet: industry
Lower costs are drawing more and more users to access the Internet via their mobiles, and opening up opportunities for advertisers, industry players said Tuesday.
Chinese company develops 'UFO': report
A Chinese company has developed a prototype flying saucer that can hover in the air and be controlled remotely from afar, state press said Tuesday.
Sony Ericsson unveils Wii-like phone
Sony Ericsson, the Swedish-Japanese phone maker, on Tuesday unveiled a Wii-like handset which allows users to play games using the phone as a motion sensor.
Teachers' Pension Plan, partner buy Chilean electricity system
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and a U.S. infrastructure fund are splitting the $870 million US cost to buy a large Chilean electricity distribution system, the SAESA Group.
Ont. space hardware firm to develop micro-satellites
Space hardware manufacturer COM DEV has announced a $7-million program to develop its own micro-satellite platform, a move away from the company's traditional niche as a supplier of sensors and...
An Unethical Ethicist? [News]
When Glenn McGee founded the Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI) at Albany Medical College in New York State in 2005, magazine articles and newspaper stories hailed the arrival of the...
Feature: Forensic breakthrough could stop major art fraud
Peter Terry examines the new forensic test that could give antique collectors piece of mind that they're buying the real thing.
Plan Seeks More Access for Disabled
The Bush administration will propose broad new rules to increase access to public places for people with disabilities.
Physical Culture | Gear Test, Travel Cases for Bicycles: The Fourth Leg of the Triathlon: Bike Transport
Tony Claudino, a triathlete who will compete in the Ford Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, tests five bike cases.
Scientist at Work | Norman T. Uphoff: Food Revolution That Starts With Rice
Norman T. Uphoff is leading an inconspicuous revolution centered on solving the global food crisis.
Global Update: Index Ranks Pharmaceutical Groups According to Third World Outreach
A new ranking of pharmaceutical companies evaluates them by how easy they make it for patients in poor countries to get drugs and vaccines.
Conference on Sustaining the Science and Engineering Workforce
A Massachusetts conference will address a national problem - the large percentage of students who enter college interested in science and engineering disciplines who switch to other majors, while...
Greenland whale hunt 'commercial'
Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland's "subsistence" whalehunt is too commercially motivated.
VIDEO: China Pandas' Bamboo Dwindling
Landslides following the May 12 earthquake have destroyed forests and blocked roads, leaving just a five-month bamboo supply for pandas in a Chengdu breeding center.
Media Registration Opens for Acs National Meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 17-21
Mark your calendars for one of this year's biggest and most comprehensive scientific events -- the 236th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), which will be...
MySpace wins another verdict against alleged spammer
(AP) -- MySpace can collect $6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users.
Pyrite deposits across the state may be tied to an Eocene meteor
In 2003, during construction of Interstate 99 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, state road builders hit the mother lode. That's a bad thing.
Adobe Q208 earnings jump 41 percent
(AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc. reported Monday its profit rose 41 percent in the second quarter because of its strong product mix and geographic diversification.
Cheap PC dongle for phone calls wins customers
(AP) -- What's the fastest-growing fixed-line phone company in the United States? It's not Verizon Communications Inc. or AT&T Inc. - they're losing lines. What about cable company Comcast...