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On Health Bill, G.O.P.’s Road Is a New Map
Republicans this month will bring President Obama a set of ideas and a more modest health care plan.
Soft intelligence for hard decisions: Soft metrics improve homeland security and other critical decisions
An approach to decision making based on soft metrics could allow problems to be solved where no definitive "yes-no" answer is possible in fields as diverse as health care, defense,...
NSF Teams with Microsoft to Move Scientific Research into the Cloud
Microsoft and the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Thursday announced plans to offer researchers and research groups selected through the agency's merit review process free access to computer servers...
Pentagon and Congress should act quickly to end gay military ban, APA says
WASHINGTON -- The American Psychological Association urged both the Pentagon and Congress today to move swiftly to end the restrictions on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military,...
Google Asks Spy Agency to Look Into Cyberattacks
The collaboration raises civil liberties issues and questions about how much Google knew when it said it might end its business operations in China.
Cyber fraudsters attack EU's carbon trading system
Online fraudsters have carried out a "widepread" cyber attack on the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the EU commission said Thursday, promising a security review.
Economist's study finds that immigration doesn't threaten US-born students' chances at college
High school students born in the United States need not view their immigrant classmates as a threat to getting a good standardized test score and, ultimately, into a good college,...
Researcher to track spread of disease, malware and power outages
An assistant professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has won a $750,000 federal grant to formulate a mathematical framework that can track the spread of pandemics among populations...
Skype on iPhone may signal end of voice plans
Skype will soon allow iPhone users to make calls through the device's data connection, a big step toward making voice plans unnecessary.
Entanglement pioneers bag Wolf Prize
Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger share physics prize
Ecuador plans extra funds for science
Ecuador aims to stop its rollercoaster science spending with a strategy to plough extra funds into research and training.
Uganda backs Tullow's oil efforts
KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The Ugandan government announced its decision to approve an effort by Tullow to buy assets from its partners at Heritage Oil, ministers said.
Scientists Turn to a Wild Oat to Combat Crown Rust
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown...
House Democrats challenge Comcast, NBC on deal
(AP) -- House Democrats are challenging executives from Comcast and NBC Universal to show that the cable TV operator's plan to take control of the NBC media empire won't...
New Data Offers In-Depth Look at Organic Farming
The nation's organic farms and ranches have higher average sales and higher average production expenses than U.S. farms overall, according to results of the 2008 Organic Production Survey released today...
Unmanned U.S. frigates to stalk submarines (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the U.S. the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is planning to introduce unmanned frigates for long missions shadowing diesel-electric submarines.
Couple sues St. Mike's hospital over alleged beating
An aboriginal man and woman who allege they were beaten by security guards at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto have launched a $2.1-million lawsuit.
BCE revenues rise on acquisitions
BCE Inc. says its Q4 revenues jumped almost four per cent thanks to new acquisitions and more wireless business.
Online piracy ruled no fault of internet provider
An Australian judge has ruled that an internet service provider cannot be held accountable for illegal movie downloads by its customers, in a test case of a key strategy by...
NASA, GM create new robotic technology
HOUSTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has joined with the General Motors to accelerate development of the next generation of robots and robotic technologies.
Symbian phone software now available free
The Symbian Foundation says the software that powers the most smartphones in the world is being made largely available for free for anyone to use.
Tainted milk shows China's food safety challenges
(AP) -- The resurfacing of tainted milk products in China highlights the challenges of policing the food supply in a country where close ties between local authorities and companies...
Private industry in space a risky, slow business: experts
NASA's plan for the private sector to build spacecraft to fly astronauts to the International Space Station is a high-risk undertaking that won't show results for years, experts said.
Disputed Joojoo tablet to ship at end of February
(AP) -- The Joojoo, a Web-browsing tablet device that's the subject of a high-profile Silicon Valley legal dispute, appears on track to reach early buyers at the end of...
SKorean, US firms embroiled in chip espionage case
(AP) -- The world's top producers of computer memory chips are embroiled in an apparent case of industrial espionage after South Korean prosecutors indicted 18 people over alleged technology...
Q&A with Simon Johnson
Over the last two years, Simon Johnson has become America’s most outspoken critic of the banking industry. Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management,...
Sarah Boseley on researchers who communicated with man in vegetative state
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Bell Labs launch Ireland expansion
Alcatel-Lucent plans to double the number of researchers at its Dublin centre