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2 million eager for health care on parents' plans
(AP) -- Congress voted to overhaul the health care system on a Sunday. On Monday, Patti Lawson e-mailed her employer's human resources office to ask how soon she could...
Drug adviser quits over science advice rules
Sixth resignation from government drugs council could trigger more departures and calls into further question the council’s ability to offer scientific advice
Video: Burglar Caught in "House Trap"
An increasing number of police forces are turning to "house traps" to help catch burglars. As SKY's Mark White reports, this technique has already been credited with a fall in...
Science Weekly podcast: The UK Space Agency, quantum information and monkeys
Vlatko Vedral, professor of quantum information theory, joins the pod to discuss his mind-blowing theories of entanglement. His new book Decoding Reality is out now. If you want more of Vedral, see Aleks...
Video: Coffee Inhalers Sold in France
A French laboratory has developed, 'Le Whif' Coffee Inhaler following the success of the chocolate inhaler. It could target the commuter coffee rush, replacing the morning cup with just a...
Grasshopper outlook strikes fear on Western range
(AP) -- Grasshopper infestations have taken on mythic tones here on the arid prairie of northeastern Wyoming - they blanket highways, eat T-shirts off clotheslines and devour nearly every...
More U.S. communities banning 'television on a stick'
As the United States cracks down on texting while driving, more than a dozen cities around the nation have banned what some consider a growing external driving distraction: digital billboards.
Media reporting HSPH professor to be named head of federal Medicare, Medicaid programs
Major media outlets are this weekend reporting that President Barack Obama has selected Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) professor Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, to head the federal government's...
Machines Take Center Stage at 'Robot Olympics'
The seventh annual RoboGames competition runs from April 23 to 25 at California's San Mateo County Expo Center.
Nominee to Disability Council Is Lightning Rod for Dispute on Views of Autism
Ari Ne’eman has become the focus of criticism from advocates who disagree with his view that society ought to concentrate on accepting autistic people, not curing them.
The readers' editor on… ageism in the media
You may have read last week of the gang jailed for locking a financial adviser in a basement after he lost their massive investments. They were aged between 61 and 80. Or...
On Blogging And Soothsaying
On Blogging And Soothsaying The internet is a wonderful means of spreading information, but there is a danger of spreading misinformation. It probably takes far fewer years of education to read...
My 10 Books
Over at Marginal Revolution economist Tyler Cowan has started one of those blog trends, and many other bloggers have followed like a pack of lemmings. read more
Congressional Memo: A Health Legislation Fail-Safe Works, but Not as Expected
The budget reconciliation process was the kind of emergency exit President Bill Clinton did not get for his health care overhaul efforts.
Brocade's ex-CEO convicted in stock options case
(AP) -- The former chief executive of networking gear maker Brocade Communications Inc. was convicted Friday of felony charges connected to backdating stock options.
Consumers Know It's Spam But Click On It Anyway
Consumers continue to click on spam despite awareness of how bots and viruses spread through risky email behavior, according to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). Their findings were...
F.D.A. Says Millions Got Unapproved Nitroglycerin
About 80 percent of prescriptions for nitroglycerin are being filled with unapproved and unvetted tablets, the Food and Drug Administration said.
Healthcare plan closes the Medicare ‘doughnut hole’
The gap in prescription coverage, never popular, will be eased by discounts and assistance. ...
From one pig: 185 products
Bacon, sausages, wine, matches, ammunition and heart valves… in fact, 185 products in total. Christien Meindertsma photographs the byproducts of Pig 05049, while Bill Buford reflects on the many uses of this single animalEarly...
Insects In Stasis
At Nature's Innocentive site, (a directory for X-prizes), there is an entry looking for someone who can develop a standard method of placing insects into a latent state and then...
Chinese mummies bring surprises to surface
An exhibit in Santa Ana displays 4,000-year-old mummies with European ancestry, found in the arid lands north of Tibet. ...
Fab Labs
Imagine if you had the tools to build almost anything you wanted. One MIT physicist has figured out how to fit four tools into one small space, so people...
Scientists look to tobacco as a potential biofuel
Some researchers say an age-old cash crop long the focus of public health debate could be used to help solve the nation's energy crisis, by genetically modifying the tobacco leaf...
More Realistic Biomechanics In New Computer Locomotion Model
(PhysOrg.com) -- No one has ever won a race on peg legs if they were running against others with flexible legs. But, until now, mathematical locomotion models predicted that...
Shell, Virent launch biofuel plant
MILWAUKEE, March 26 (UPI) -- Shell and Virent Energy Systems Inc. have launched production at the world's first biogasoline demonstration plant.
How to Change the World: New Working Paper Analyzes How Leaders Promote Development
(PhysOrg.com) -- Leadership that develops 'change space' is best suited to promote positive development within a country. That's the finding in a new Harvard Kennedy School Working Paper.
Verizon winds down expensive FiOS expansion
(AP) -- If Verizon Communications Inc. hasn't already started wiring your city or town with its FiOS fiber-optic TV and broadband service, chances are you won't get it.
Obese need special ambulance gear
Society's obesity problem has ambulance attendants scrambling for new equipment capable of transporting very heavy patients, medics in Saskatoon say.